We also consider ourselves competent at leveling.
Give us the profile plan and the notes on an excavation, and we can superintend the laborers who have to make an excavation.
We have a fair knowledge of ordinary road building.

We have the strength of usual materials at our finger's ends, and for beginners I think we may claim that we are very well up in mathematics.
We have had some all-around experience.

Here is a letter, sir, from Price & Conley, of Gridley, in whose offices we have done quite a bit of work." Mr.Thurston took the letter courteously, though he did not \ immediately glance at it.
"Country surveyors, these gentlemen, I suppose ?" he asked, looking into Tom's eyes.
"Yes, sir," nodded Reade, "though Mr.Price is also the engineer for our home county.

Both Mr.Price and Mr.Conley paid us the compliment of saying that we were well fitted to work in a railway engineering camp." "Well, we'll try you out, until you either make good or convince us that you can't," agreed the chief engineer, without any show of enthusiasm.

"You may show them where they are to live, Mr.
Blaisdell, and where they are to mess.