The St Gothard Tunnel. -Some ' figures about the St Gothard Kailway are interesting and suggestive. Its total cost is set down at 12,000,000d o l; its length at 113 miles, the length of the tunre) alone being 9£ miles. Two million and two hundred thousand p ounds of dynamite were used in blastiDg, and about 1,000.000 cubic yards of rock vrere excavated from the tunnel alone; The loss
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Temuka Leader, Issue 991, 15 August 1882, Page 3
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68Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Temuka Leader, Issue 991, 15 August 1882, Page 3
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