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each started from different parts of the
river, and are digging the canals, they
float in, themselves.

[illustration of the dredging with details]: Track - (not here yet), Grade, Level Country, Cross-section, Berm, Bucket, Boom, Water, Level country

They have to bore deep holes in the ground,
ahead of the dredger, & dynamite it, so that the
dredger can dig it out with the bucket, & throw it
up on the grade. Last week I was coming over
to the dredger, & they dynamited the ground
when I was about 50 feet away, & a big clod
came down & knocked me out for a minute.
Dufour gave the powder man the deuce, but
he said he didn't see me, & that the dredger
whistled. The dredger did whistle, but the powder
went off at the same time. There was twelve boxes
or 600 sticks of dynamite went off under the
ground, & you bet it blew it right up in
the air. you see they bore a lot of holes
& put 20 stickes in a hole, & loosen up
half an acre of land at once.

Next time I am going to look around, before
I start to walk over a blast.

A couple of days ago the cook on "V" dredger
shot a man named Henry Goodhouse, who
they call "Dutch" Henry. He was a leverman, on