New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-21
COMMISSIONERS TO ASSESS DAMAGES.
THE PANAMA CANAL.
THE WORK on THIS IMMENSE ARTIFICIAL
WATERWAY Is STEADILY ADVANCING.

THE WORK on THIS IMMENSE ARTIFICIAL
WATERWAY Is STEADILY ADVANCING.
From The New orleans Picayune.
There is not the slightest doubt that the Panama
will be SrngP cH en faft TS9s o tf
holm sweden. who is stopping at the Cosmopoli-
tan 10 THE Plcayune" representative last nignt
Mr. Ahng spent three years as one Hi Inc raee Sy,
severed his connection with the new Panama Sanai
Company which is now SD So md me
THE work is being now advanced Win erea!
adroness and mann And am free
70 say that II the first company had husoanGeo It's
P9nama canal Would be very very near completion
today. There was great deal 81 waste as em a.
ment. and the evidences OF this waste are IN ta ,b
be seen even unto today NJ ih msnaSsrin
chief Their administration thus far reflects great
est credit upon their ability and Judgmen. T san
de- they are accomplishing wonders They have
spent about 100000 up TO date ana II tnt b tu S
Work will be successfully brought 10 close, and II
cannot be possible that the funds for the enterprise
Th e01 work OF is concentrated upon the
mountain ridge S WScb cmsbra is the
and about the highest point 70 be CIT through The
hills s9Is mere aF FS two hundred feet been
shaved OF this altitude. They are OF a sanostT pis
enre stretch yet through is a6o S n bs
teen miles the canal on the an psnis, 20
been competed ~ boIie'" Ga" ~"
Merohoures. , -, ,,,., r,as that first fig
,,red on has been abandoned, ana tne canal VIII
have according TO later and better-adVisen ehsi
neers 10 be divided by seven locks, s.duoneu -
intervals This is done for the reason ehat the on,
rorancs in the tide OF the ATLANTIC ana the faEnc
f. something i'm the neighborhood or twenty-five ee,
Tho Tide on the Pacific coast rises 10 t"tn,y TO-!
fnat while that on the Atlantic rises 10 ohly two.
ard t. would consequently result that II tne W.T.
invcl Man were adopted there would AZ one I uIe
be an ungovernabe food pouring IN IRON 'r notber
INA entrances on the Pacific side, ana AZ ahp',r A..
an ebh which would leave the SHIPS hSl anu ui'
!.rher" has consequently been devised series ,G 3
.., ,r,ro ire naceI al the Atlantic ana racine
,.s and there are five OF them In the interVeh
u 80 10 R1hlo on the Alantc slue, tne
a, a. dlled with water from the our ahg "a
,Jeronoures on the Pacific side the cdmttI II ie ~
ni ,bc water OF the Pacific Ocean Inc och -
onened at Panama when the tide Is coniIs III, LII
iiod n bll the canal and when II begins 10 epo
a. ~ cioscd down. allowing the water 10 teIhath
neide The same thing Is to he done on me a. a..
inn,ic eide The intermediate sections WIFI H.
hhid In tho embrace OF the locks are suppIl.u w
~ water Of the Rio Crande and Cnaeres lNe.s, r,,s
.,Tbere will be sufficient water whell ~.
ro comnleted for the heaviest snip III s.h
- 70 ha made. as science calculates Inc ueP'"
~ tho canal will be fifty feet. ,..u,oo,oo o,d
Vi III "a hardly possible that the inieIsehce anu
op,ai Of the world going TO allow .nIs nrse
caitaa co which means so much to the commerce
H n nations to lag for the lack Of lunus IL ~ o
VI ariv CONNECTED and there Is poSslo! % ,hs
mon,rietion in the immediate tu,ule - 4, ' ~,
n,ork is continued under such direcu0p o. fror, ts
nresent enjoys the time is not far distant i'o '''
nj.