VOL. xxvii 



TITLE REGISTERFD U.S.PATENT OFFICE 



|| CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1911|| 



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THE TWO SIZES OF DITCH 



Ditch Belne Due with Sloplnt Banks An Austin Dralnaze Excavator Ditcb, 

 showlnj variations in width made bv same machine 



The Austin Drainage Exdavator 

 The Austin Levee Builder 

 The Austin Drag Line Excavator 

 The Austin Side Hill Ditcher 



-OUR FOT.L LINE COMPRISES 



The Austin Highway Ditcher 

 The Austin Orange Peel Ditcher 

 The Austin Sewer and Water Works 

 Excavator. 



Any of these machines can be mounted on a float, on wheels, skids, track rails, 

 or rolling platform traction. Motive power, steam or gasoline. 



F. (^Austin Drainage Excavator Co. 



Railway Exchange, CHICAGO 



(25 YEARS' PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE BUILDING EXCAVATING MACHINERY) 



shown in the accompanying view were 

 dug by the machine illustrated. This 

 machine can dig any other sizes be- 

 tween the two shown, with any slope 

 of bank desired. All that is necessary 

 to accomplish these changes is to alter 

 the guide frame (templet) which carries 

 the self-cleaning excavating buckets. 

 This 



Austin Drain- 

 age Excavator 



ditch looks like a ditch, doesn't it? 

 It looks like a ditch that will stand, 

 and it will stand because the sides 

 are sloped, the spoil banks are away 

 from the edges, the cut is made 

 cleanly without disturbing the ground 

 outside the section. 



The Austin Pipe Line Excavator. 



The Austin Tile Ditcher 



The Austin Stump Puller and Grubber 



Please 'cut this out 



To write to F. C, Austin Drainage Excava- 

 tor Co., Railway Exchange, Chicago III., for 

 Free Book "S" on Modern Methods of 

 Excavation. 



MORRIS MACHINE 

 WORKS 



BALDWINSVILLE, N. Y. 



Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, designed 

 for any irrigating or dredging proposition. 

 Send details or specifications of what is 

 wanted and we will recommend a pump- 

 ing outfit to supply the need. 



New York Office, 39-41 Cortlandt Street 

 '-.HENION & HUBBELL, : : General Agents 



223-231 North Jefferson St., Chicago 

 HARROW, RICKARD & McCOMB, : Agents 



San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal. 

 H. A. PAINE, Agent, : : : Houston, Texas 



D. H. ANDERSON, Publisher 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



