Aug. 5, 1911.] 
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THE CAPE COD CANAL. 
With two big steam shovels at work taking 
off the soil at the few high places along the 
main trunk of the canal between Sagamore and 
Bourne and another mammoth machine soon to 
begin excavation near Bourne, dirt is literally 
flying in the valley between Sandwich and Buz¬ 
zard’s Bay, as it has not been since the first 
shovelful of earth was dug by August Belmont 
two years ago last month. 
It was found that neither the big hydraulic 
dredge Gen. MacKenzie nor the scoop dredges 
could take off the high places along the line of 
the canal as quickly or to such an advantage as 
steam shovels, and in order that there might 
not be the slightest delay in the construction of 
the great maritime highway, steam shovels will 
assist in the task. 
The Gen. Mackenzie is now at work near the 
village of Sagamore and a liberal bonus has 
been offered to Captain Huffman and the crew 
of the big digger if they succeed in having the 
canal dug to a point near the main highway in 
Sagamore on or before Aug. 15. 
Captain Huffman and crew are confident that 
they will win the bonus, and day and night the 
big digger is kept going, sending the spoil out 
through her discharge pipes over the Scusset 
marshes, which are rapidly being covered to a 
depth of a dozen feet or more. 
Beginning at the Coffins bridge, so-called that 
crosses the Monument River, one of the big 
steam shovels will excavate toward Bournedale. 
Already the railroad tracks for the cars that will 
carry the sand to the dumping ground are laid, 
the locomotives are set up and there is unusual 
activity among the men employed. 
Between Bournedale and Bourne the highest 
point of land along the route of the canal is 
sixty feet above the bottom of the canal prism, 
and the men in charge of the steam shovel say 
that they will soon remove it down to sea level. 
The steam shovel at work near Sagamore has 
completed a large section of the waterway there 
down to sea level, ready for dredges at work on 
this end of the waterway to begin operations there. 
The work of protecting the banks of the canal 
at the Cape Cod Bay entrance is being carried 
on. One large section of the bank on the north 
side has been finished and lighters are at work 
laying stone all along the bank for a distance of 
several hundred feet. 
The south bank of the canal, where the water¬ 
way enters the bay at Sandwich, will also be 
protected, but this work will not be begun until 
the breakwater is further toward completion. 
The work of finishing that section of the sea¬ 
wall built last year is well under way, and the 
contractors are confident that they will com¬ 
plete the task within the prescribed time. 
Two scoop dredges are also at work on the 
Sandwich end of the canal, one deepening and 
widening the entrance to the canal, the other 
following, the General Mackenzie, cleaning up 
the bottom of the waterway. 
On the Buzzard’s Bay end of the canal the 
whole shore line is being changed by the dredges 
that are filling in the marshes and meadows on 
the north bank. Three hydraulic dredges are 
at work in the Monument River near the Buz¬ 
zard’s Bay railroad bridge that will span the 
canal, and the other bigger scoop dredges are 
at work in the bay between the Monument River 
and Monument Beach. 
Within sixty days these dredges are likely to 
have the main ship channel which they have been 
deepening from a point near Wings Neck Light¬ 
house to the entrance to the canal at the Monu¬ 
ment River bridge, ready for the main trunk of 
the canal and continue the working of cutting the 
eight miles of valley between Buzzard’s Bay and 
Sandwich. 
By following the route of the bed of the 
Monument River for over a mile the canal com¬ 
pany will save that much digging. Although the 
old river is shallow, there is plenty of width for 
the canal, and it is believed that rapid progress 
will be made by. the big dredges once they start 
to work in the river. 
Captain J. W. Miller, vice-president of the 
canal company, is giving his personal attention 
to the hastening of its completion. He has his 
offices in Sandwich and is there almost daily. 
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