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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



Unless the 



Sides of a 



Drainage Ditch 



are Sloped 



They will 



Wash and Cave 



into the 



Channel 



Nature Will 



Slope the 



Sides of a 



Drainage Ditch 



But She Will 



Spoil the 



Ditch 

 in Doing It 



Austin Drainage Excavator 



Thirty- Two Thousand Cubic Yards of 

 Excavation in One Month 



Ranks in output with the world's largest out- 

 puts of machine excavators for example, with the steam 

 shovel records at Panama. 



If We specialize in ditch- 

 ing machinery both for 

 open ditches and pipe line 

 work. These various ma- 

 chines are known to con- 

 tractors as the "AUSTIN 

 LINE," comprising the 

 following : 



Drainage Excavator Type A 

 Drainage Excavator Type B 

 Drainage Excavator Type R 

 Levee Builder 

 Drag Line Excavator 

 Special Wheel Ditcher 

 Side Hill Ditcher 

 Highway Ditcher 

 Orange Peel Ditcher 

 Pipe Line Excavator 

 Farm Tile Ditcher 

 Austin Sewer and Waterworks 



Excavator 



Austin Combination Sloping or 

 Vertical Bank Excavator 



This is exactly the record of an Austin Drain- 

 age Excavator constructing a drainage ditch in a middle 

 western state we can show the contractor's signed state- 

 ment. 



As an earth moving machine alone an Austin 



Drainage Excavator is in the same class as the dredge or 

 the steam shovel. 



As a ditch building machine it is in a class 



entirely by itself, since it digs a ditch to templet with slop- 

 ing banks complete in one operation. 



It being impracticable to dredge the banks to 



slope, extra material is removed from the sides so that when 

 the banks cave to slope the ditch will not be choked, and 

 this extra digging, while adding to the yardage removed, 

 does not add to the mileage of .ditch completed. On the 

 other hand with an Austin Drainage Excavator, which slopes 

 the banks by the same motion that removes the earth, and 

 also cuts to templet to exact dimensions, every yard exca- 

 vated counts towards mileage of ditch dug. 



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