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"getting on" in. the world 



Photograph by C. P. Scott 



On the long marches through the Australian deserts the wobbly legs of the baby camels 

 sometimes fail them, and they are then given a free ride 



and digging shallow wells, but the chief 

 reliance is upon water in tank cars hauled 

 hundreds of miles. 



At the eastern end ot the line water 

 must be found for 200 horses, 300 camels, 

 and 1,200 workmen with their families, 

 besides that needed for eight locomotives, 

 each one of which uses about 60 gallons 

 per mile, or 60,000 gallons for a 1,000- 

 mile run. Water at the head of rails, 

 carried 300 miles in tank cars and 30 



miles by camel, costs $39 a thousand gal- 

 lons ; at one point the cost is $2 a gallon. 

 At the western end of the line, water is 

 taken from pipe 350 miles long, then 

 hauled 220 miles at a cost of $8.40 a 

 thousand gallons for each 100 miles. 



PANAMA CANAL IDEAS APPLIED IN THE 

 AUSTRALIAN DESERT 



It was interesting to watch the rail- 

 road building. The construction camps 



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