Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-05

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the sea level plain in view. there was an
aqucduct built which was intended TO
carry Obispo river over the top of the
canal. This has been taken down.
From Las Cascndus 60 Empire we are
still in the valley Of the Obispo with
rock cutting most of the way. that at
Empire being very heavy. There are at
Empire q great many sheds aud the ma.
chincry seems well preserved. ] noticed
men at work painting the engines Tor
preservation After passing through the
heavy cuttings at Empire / came again
to the FIAT of the ObispO river, aud from
there ! climbed the colossal C,lcbra cut.
where the tower drcdge above referred
TO Is seen. This cut Is so massive that
10 seems hard to judge of It. IL rs only
man on the side of "a mountain now
much oyergrowu, but broadly dug away.
To the Imagination OF one ON the SPOT
the job seems an endless and Impossible
one.
AZ the south cud Of Culcbra cut the
canal again crosses the Panama rnil-
road. Then opens the valley Of tn Rio
Grnnde. Culebra is "a small settlement
Of some fifty houses and u Few car
sheds.
My next place was Cucornchn. Here
is where NJ Ethel started the first lock
under his now regime after the original
sea level idea had been abandoned. !
followed along the Rio Grnndc valley
but saw nothing of special note until !
reached paruisO. Pnraiso is about eight
miles from Panama, but can be- seen
from the hospital balconies on Mount
Ancon. just ON the suburbs of Panama.
At Paradise there rs very much rock cut
ting, and another one Of the EiftCl locks.
/ still went through rock cuttings to
Peter Miguel, a little more than mile
away An along through this part Of
the canal there ARE acres Of machinery,
stcUm drills. eyc0yators. dump ears. all
kinds, scattered over the face of the
cnrth. From Cuebra to Peter Miguel
the canal required seven miles of the
present roadhcd aud simply dcyintcl the
railroad. II was proposed that at Peter
Miguel there should D." u druwhridgp
where the canal would cross the new
line Of this deviation of the railroad.
From horo | continued along the RIO
Grundc valley TO Mirahorcs, about five
miles from Panama.
Now / began 10 get into the salt tide
muIShes. still, however Nv the valley OF
the Rio GrHndc, and passed high tower
drcdCc The lock at MiruHorcs is
PARTIALLY cNC0vatrd there being Il trni-
pOrnry dam Of wood, brush and rock so
ms to help Keep the water out i'm order
90 do cNcnvuting.
The marsh gets deeper and softer to
La Bnca. which now falls refreshed into
! the arms Of the sea-.
have pvdn this rapid nashliCht re-
| view of the canal based upon my per-
| sOpul observation. both because think
| u fuller outline would De- too fun. and be-
| cause skeleton outline from actual
| experience Is something that the Ameri-
| can has hitherto failed TO get. The
| reader will now bc enabled I'm a rough
but ready was. 90 reach some kind of q
| conclusion of Ills own about the work
! done aud the possible chances ahead.
! should say that putting everything to-
| gether, oue.fourth Of the whole under
! taking had been done.
But there are yet los feet Of culebra
| 20 be- dug away unless the water be
| pumped sixty feet 10 a central summit
! level lake. The dam, then, for this cen,
| trul lake must be- made, the plant must
! bee renewed, aud SliOOOOUOO more must
! be raised according TO estimates OF
! friends, Yet IL would hc unfair To- say
! that much work has not been done
/ There has been n great deal OF work
done. and wonderful work representing
many men and millions. The machine
| cry. too what is loft of h. Is looked after
| better than could he expected In this day
ot decentralization. Yet the greater part
! has gone to waste The fact remnns
! however that an appalling Swiudlc has
| played i,s part along this sCrpuutin,
| WAY. But the people here are actually
confident that the canal viii he hult
many say that the Nicaragua schcm,
Is a hun; many say that America vii
talc hold of Panama as the most prac
| ticnhlc scheme.
Despite Chogrcs and Culebra. uut
despite the fact that for every Docau
vile car OF earth loosencd two NOR,
seem TO slide down the mountain side
yet, to my mind, even Il this canal per
Torrance seems herculean, yet i'm tho
doings Of today, it may not seem i'm
possible.
| have taken here special view Of
things going into particulars, hrcaus,
! Americans | believe, want Coucret,
things. ! have reached the limit of my
letter may, next week, give Il NOR,
general picture
Meanwhile Panama Is proud as 1
princess, naughty with hope, stron,
toned In her statements that there vii
YET he a timely, happy consummatiol
Of this project, which, however may
say, will not be for our eyes to lool
upou nor yet for the eyes of these gene
ratious of men. w. II, CHRISTIAN.