steam shovel

Example Sentences

• "The construction of the Ealing & South Harrow proceeded very slowly during the winter of 1898-9 but by July most of the bridges had been built and the stations started. Two steam shovels, six locomotives, and 325 men were employed."
• "At Lahontan the teams were engaged on the earthwork of the dike with the adjoining Lahontan Beach canal south of the dam. Paving of the up-stream slope of the dam was carried out by night shift in steam shoveling rock at the quarry and delivering by cars and cableway to the dam, where paving was placed by day shift and nearly completed to the present top of the dam at the end of the month."
• "[H]ere in America there are mountains of oil rock which can be blasted and steam-shoveled and transported by gravity to great retorts which will turn out oil and fertilizer in limitless quantities."
• "Considerable copper ore, steam-shoveled from Sacramento Hill and piled at Bisbee, was of smelting and milling grade, and some of it was put on the dump for heap leaching."
• "I do know that some of the most influential people in the oil-mining industry have made some investigations with a view of steam shoveling certain areas, and that they found conditions were such, with the beds of barren material lying between the high-grade product, that they could not steam shovel it, […]"
• "Approximately eighty-five percent of the iron mined in the United States in recent decades has come from the ore ranges adjoining the upper Lakes, and most of all from the fabulous Mesabi Range, some fifty miles northwest of Duluth, now steam-shovelled deep in what was recently a frontier wilderness of snow, lakes and northern forests, […]"