About 20 years ago the city where I live (pop. 8,000) changed from well water to lake water. The agency I worked for financed the project. When the intake structure was being built the extra long reach back hoe, or track hoe ran into some bones of some dead Indian and the project had to stop. The contractor then sent a truck to the border and came back wtih a truck load of Mexicans and they finished the project by tunneling to the treatment station. All the dirt they took out they put in a pile to let the preservationsist sift through. When they finished they found out it was cheaper to tunnel with shovels than dig with big machines. Go figure? -- RODEO RAMBLINGS

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Date Posted: 11:46:37 01/31/06 Tue
Author: ZD Ranch
Subject: About 20 years ago the city where I live (pop. 8,000) changed from well water to lake water. The agency I worked for financed the project. When the intake structure was being built the extra long reach back hoe, or track hoe ran into some bones of some dead Indian and the project had to stop. The contractor then sent a truck to the border and came back wtih a truck load of Mexicans and they finished the project by tunneling to the treatment station. All the dirt they took out they put in a pile to let the preservationsist sift through. When they finished they found out it was cheaper to tunnel with shovels than dig with big machines. Go figure?
In reply to: rose 's message, "I remember in school watching a documentary about drug trafficking from Mexico to the US. It was one of those investigative reports or crime documentarys that A&E does. Any how the whole episode was about tunnels from Mexico to Arizona & California, that were used by a big drug cartel in Mexico to bring Cocaine into the country. I can't remember how long the tunnels where but I do remember them comparing it to the tunnel that connects London to Paris. That left me in awe at the time... It showed the inside of the tunnel and it looked like an old miners tunnel... with tracks on the ground & the carts they used in mines... I did hear about this new one discovered. I agree about it not changing. Politicians & the gov. for that matter, make way to much off their failed war on drugs, to want to do anything." on 10:05:02 01/31/06 Tue

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Well ZD.. they have a point. Everybody is out to rip everybody off on parts, labor, etc. Got a friend who has 2 dump trucks and some end loaders for land clearing. Says he cannot get parts to either dump truck once they get over 8 years old. You have to go to the junkyard or go buy a new one. He says nobody but a computer nerd can work on the endloaders. They get $250 for showing up and $140 an hour for working on it., plus the highly over priced parts. Manual ditch diggers do sound cheaper. (NT) -- Varmit, 03:54:21 02/01/06 Wed

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