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' : p o rot ku 1 - : '''' :. and the mcst cf it at tht lowest Lamps Goods uajnouc unurcn Ciud Grounds i y FACTS AND FIGURES CONCERNING mNSTRIMN (IF PANAMA CANAL Bj PAMKL Ganiboa, where the huge blast was fired today which practically mingles the waters of the two oceans, is fit uated eight or ten miles nearer the Pacific than tho Atlantic upon the Pa nama canal route. As the blowing up of the Mllaflores dike on August 31 admitted to the canal for the first time the water of the Pacific, so to day's explosion admits the water of tho Gatun lake toward the Atlantic into the Pacific end of the great ditch. With this performance the operations of steam shovels in the stupendous Culebra cut end, to be taken up by marine dredges. By the removal cf the Milaflores barrier Pacific water was introduced into the part of the canal between the Milaflores lock and the Garaboa dike, wken dredges at once superseded tbe land-grubbing machines in that section. For the -Milaflores blast 44,800 pounds of dynamite were placed in 541 separate holes, each cache being reached by an electric wire, and on the turning of a switch hundreds of tons of mud and stones were thrown high in the air as the thunderous roar of the explosion re-echoed in the nearby hills. Although it was one of the largest blasts ever set off in the canal, the big gap it tore in the bar rier rwas not deep enough it being low tide to start the Inflow of sea water. A workman seized a shovel and made a small trench through which a rill trickled Gradually . It that the amount of excavation in this widened until .an hour later a .. .raging section would reach 115,000,000 cub torrent, with a 35-foot fall, v poured Mc yards of material. Including 24,588, th rough an opening OO feet wide, and J20 . cubic yards dug out by the in five and a half hours from ' the French before the transfer of the en blast the cut 14 the locality already ierprise .to American hands. There mentionedwhich Is 5000 feet long, have .fceen!;-4 0.00ft -men emDloved on ft wide nd 41 ;feet deep below ... mean sea jevei-rwas entirely unea.i when the waters of the Pacific for Ithejfne dredging, the.ifirst of this month, nrst time javea tne solid iioors ot tne a large reduction. will be madat Milaflores dam. ' ; - Regarding the excavation in its en- Dredjres Into Cnlebra Cut jtlrety, it has been graphically sum- " Dredges were introduced into the med up by a mathematician with, dia cnt just mentioned and began opera-' grams. Accordine to this authoritv tions two days later, and as a result "a of their .work, with the Garaboa bar rier removed, dredges from, the' Paclf ic. can now proceed with : the excava lion of the Culebra cut bottom. By . the same token, boats may now reach, the Milaflores locks from both ends, j About three miles west of the Milaflo res locks are the Pedro Miguel locks, the former, being of two flights and, the latter" of one flight, and it 13- through ve Milaflores that boats are lowered to a Pacific sea level, the ter minus on this ocean being at La Boca (Spanish for mouth), a suburb of Pa nama. Going from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean a boat enters the canal on the north side of the isthmus, at a small suburb of Colon called Cristo bal. Seven miles inland it comes to the Gatun Iock3. These lift the boat to a level of 85 feet above the sea, which level is maintained through the Gatun artificial lakes and the Culebra cut, on to the Pedro Miguel locks, 39 miles from the Atlantic and 11 miles from the Pacific ocean. From Colon to Panama the traveler will experi ence the. odd sensation of going south and east instead of west. On awaken ing in Panama of a morning he will find that the sun rises and sets in tho Pacific, because Panama is on a point of land Jutting out into the ocean. Some Canal Details. "he Panama cannl generally follows the valleys of the Mindi and Chagres rivers on the north or Atlantic side, and tho Rio Grande on the south or I'acific side. It crosses the height of land at the deep cut in Culebra hill, between the two oceans, about 14 miles from the Pacific. Culebra, the lowest hill on the divide, was about 340 feet above sea level. The French made a cut in the hill to a point 140f feet above sea level, and Goethals brought the elevation down to 85 fnrt. SHdes in this immense gash were among the most serious .obsta cles met with in building the canal. They began in 1907 and some of i the worst occurred in 1912, there be- j lng one of a million cubic ynrds in June, another of 400.000 cubic yards ' in August, and a third avalanche of one and a quarter million cubic yards' in September. Besides doing much I damage to the plant, the slides let in great volumes of water that ham pered the work. The high level of th canal is that cf watun lake, formed bv the huee oatun dam. This body of water cov- ers 164 square miles, its waters flow ... ' ing from the locks at Gatun through the Culebra cut, and to the locks on the Pacific side at San Miguel. The dam consists of-a core of iiydraulically deposited, impervious silt, between two rock fills. It is one and a half miles lone and o. mains 21,000.000 cubic yards of concrete. To lift vessels to the 85 foot level the Gatun locks are three in num ber, each raising its burden twenty eight and one-third feet These locks are about one and one-third miles long, of solid concrete, forming the largest concrete structure in the LOCJAX world. Tbev arc double, to allcw the passage of vessels in both directions at the same time if necessary. Elec- trie locomotives ahead, behind and on both sides will tow the vessels through the locks. The overflow of the Gatun dam will provide electric power for the locomotives and prob ably for all the uses of power along the canal zone. A double-, line of buoys, beacons and lighthouses will enable the pilots safely to follow the zigzag course from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The locks will' accommodate vessels 1000 feet long, 110 feet wide and 45 feet draft. As tbe average vessel in the tropical trade Is under 600 feet n length, Auxiliary or intermediate gates are provided, so that 40 per cent of the water, for flocking vessels can be saved unless" the vessel, exceeds 'i feet in. length. The lock gates are steel structures,-each leal weigh ing about 550 tons. .They are 77 feet high, 67 feet -wide and 7 feet thick. i.aere are Ml leaves, or 46 pairs of gates.:' ; ; Culebra ' cut, ! formed one of two parts Into which, the'.central division of the canal was split This section extends from : tbe Chagres river at Gamboa to the San Miguel locks, and although? tonly3&lrifle ;M 'lengthy it embraced nearly one-half of the total excavation waterway. required for the entire It was estimated recently the. works lhlsnmr.- hut: with the chapge from xlry arth digging to mar- train of flat cars to carry the r M3 4 H.P. 4 H.P. 2 Speed 7 H.P. Reg. 4 7 H.P. 2 Every 0, Corner King and Fort Streets cavatod material would encircle the arth four times. The material Iwou'd make a line of 63 pyramids. leach one of which would equal dimensions the great pyramid ! Kgypt. 1 Historical. in of of Anything like even a synopsis the history of the Panama canal would more than fill this newspaper. . A j - w prime lacis may. noweTer, on mis ; occasion be 'appropriate. . ... I An old map at Nuremburg, drawn y Johannes Schoner and .dated .1515, 1 8ives a rough outline of the American I continent, with a line marked through i Ire isinmus-fwnemer inienaea w re present 's supposed passage to the Pa cific or the prophecy of a canal is not known." The first survey for a canal vad made in 1581. In 1620 a report on the feasibility of a-canal from the north to'. the south sea was' submitted to Philip II.' of Spain," who considered the proposition an impious one, as the will of God was made manifest by. the creation of an isthmus to separate the seas instead of a strait to unite them. He decreed the project to be sacri legious, later Imposing the penalty of death on anyone considering theen terprise." :- In' 1827-28 the project was revived and in 1S66 the United'States first tookv-an; active " interest i In it, which was renewed . in 1875. .That year an - agitation for -a anat- took place In ? France, but' It- waa "not until December 30, 1879, that Count Ferdi nand de Lesseps arrived at Colon and cperatloha were begun. ' On January 10, 1880,- the first' blast- on' Culebra Mil was fired in the presence of a distinguished gathering, and the cables bore the news around the world that ' the greatest "engineering feat ot all times had been started. r i In December, 1888, the first. iyencb company went injo liquidation after ppendmg a total of $23 1,793,01 7, - A new f company; was floated in 1894. with a working capital cf thirteen mil lion dollars,! and succeeded, in accomp lishing considerable work. Thli com pany haying drifted into the breakers. I the .United. Stalei -.took the nternrisa. in hand. On January 20,: 1902, Pt'esl- dent Roosevelt sent Jo congress a message, recommending the considera tion of a canal at Panama, Conxresi acted,' appropriating $170,000,000 and directing the president, if the consent of Colombia could not be obtained for ex-Panama, to have the canal built ,'jupbn 2L I On Easy Terms Motocycle Guaranteed for One Year HAL L & S the Nicaragiian route at a cost not to exceed $180,000,000. The Unite States paid : $40,000,000 to the Trench company after having forcibly etab- lished the Independence of Panama ifrom Colombia, and then purchased the Canal Zone from ihe newly creat- ' ed republic of Panama for $10,000,000. this nation guarantees to maintain the independence of the Republic ctj The right of thia country' to offer ; Panama, and, besides the purchase special privileges to American vessels t, r-rice for the canal strip engage to Jin ; tae cdasttogt trade la claimed in . -pay that country $250,000 a year. part on the ground that conditions'- For tha wonderful progress made have changed aince- tho treaty was, V In construction, whereby the canal is made. . When it was framed the supv to be comnleUd fifteen months earlier, position waa that the canal ;would lie than tho'date originally estimated,. it jin territory foreign -to the United -is not necessary to say that tbe mas- States, but now the Canal Zone - ia, terly administrative capacity of Col. .American ground... . ; . "V4-- George W. Goethals, the army officer ' It is anticipated that "the canal will selected as first choice among many , have; an-( Immense traffic from the "la- deemed capable for the task, is Ho be stant it la opened. On the basis of the" credited.: -At. thesarae time the chief commerce of 1839. it Is estimated that himselfils authority fort placing a if the canal had been open in that great share. of the glory upon the head year it would havcommanded a traf- of Col. Harry AV.llodges, the engineer fie of 5,000,000 tons. In 1909-10 of 8,. that designed. the -wondrous mechan- 328,000 tons net - The distance from Icai equipment of the canal. It is an New Tork to Adelaide is shortened by old story, . but one that ; will never . the canal 1746 miles, from New York stale, how Goethals made the enter- to Melbourne 2770. mllea and from prise feasible at the outset by re-cre--New York to Sydney 3932 miles. Coal ating the once pestllentialilsthmua in-lean to sold at Colon or Cristobal for U a veritable health resort. Lack of, $5 a ton and, at Balboa for $5X0, like foresight and knowledge of easen-' against $5.20 to $132 at Suez In 1912. s tials on the part of those who built - Interviewed in July, Col., Goethals, the Panama railroad Is all that (de- asked when the- first 'ship would gu tracts from the distinction wonv by through the canal; said: "Just as soon America in' carrying, out that enter- we can get the slides suHclently prise after European governments had dredged to give us ampla depth and futllely pottered with It for Tears. widtn for the vessels to fcove. ' This; work: was begun In 1849 ' and yh9 Cost. ' ' " . v T completed in 1855 after great dlfficul-, ;Van. There were other tragedies at Pa- rn?t exceedflr nama' In mo4ern. times, besides " the -hundred mllUon dollars. - - - . h . toll of death $. rom 'preventlble 'disease -r 1 ';, : 5 . . . '.; During the California golrf rush the FALCONS SEE PLACES - V travel to the rew-Eldorado. On'Aprll 15; I855,; there was a fight' In the su burbs of, Panama between 970 passe n gerajust, arrived' from. New York on the way to j California and the; crimi nal : element . ot Panama, the ' local mob afterward being reinforced by the national gendarmerie Sixteen Amer- I ,1,111 J ... ,,,IM lire uiBWmc, im wiw(-v. sum stss 1Dbrol,Ia?C8 r- "? s :a demanded reparation .froin; New.Ora-VMge conu t c t. . ..' nada, making an effort to secure ihe The hawks trembled when the aero- . islands lying at what is now the Pa- ' Planes flew past and could not be In clfic entrance pf . the canaL UlUmaw-l tfaced to leave the falconer's wrist, ly ; a compromise on $400,000 indem- They, were utterly demoralUed by the ' ,'nlty was effected. . ' . , tew kinds of "birds." ; : ' r i i-i Cash $220 270 ON Some little diplomatic, trouble re lating to the canal it now pending.. It arises from the British insistence on r observance of the letter of the Hay-.' Pauncefota treaty, made In 1901,; which provided that the canal shouki be open to the ships of commerce and" war of . all nations upon equal terms i' with the VesseU of the United States. AND REFUSE TO FLY , (By Latest Mall ' ; ' ' . . . , PARIS. On one side of the aero orome at "Juvisy i.today a green-clad ; falconer experimented with his hooded 1 hawks, a revival of the ancient spbrt; . .1. . i U am 'anI Knrha1 Wars i - Instal. $230 Phone 3481 i