THE 



VOL. xxvn 



REGI! ERTD U.S. PATENT OFFICE 



j CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 191211 



Austin Combination Sloping or Vertical Bank Excavator 



A double-acting machine that 

 enables the contractor to take work 

 away from competition because it 

 lowers expenses and lowers bid 

 figures. It will dig a tile ditch or 

 sewer trench 2J^ ft. wide, 10 ft. 

 deep; and by substituting a bank- 

 sloping attachment will dig sloping- 

 side open ditches 5 ft. deep, 4 ft. 

 bottom, 16 ft. top (or any dimen- 

 sions smaller) at maximum rate 

 of 9 lin. ft. a minute. And both 

 ditches are finished; the tile ditch 

 needs no hand labor the open 

 ditch has accurately-sloped, smooth, 

 wear-proof banks. 



Send for Catalogue 

 No. 200 



F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Company 



Railway Exchange, Chicago, III. 



Morris Machine Works 



BALDWINSVILLE, N. Y. 



Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, de- 

 signed for any irrigating or dredging prop- 

 osition. Send details or specifications 

 of what is wanted and we will recommend 

 a pumping outfit to supply the need. 



New York Office, 39-41 Cortlandt Street 



HENION & HTTBBELL - - General Agents 



223-231 North Jefferson St., Chicago 



HARRON, RICKARD & McCOMB - - Agents 

 San Francisco and Los Angeles, California 



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



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D. H. ANDERSON, Publisher 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



