The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-29
PANAMA CANAL People.
Protest that They Do Not D..,re 20
Sell Their Cnncexxia., -.

Protest that They DO Mt Desire Ia
| Sell Their Concession.
! New York, November 2s.--M. uutin di.
rector general OF the new Panama Canal
company, has come over from Paris 10 sas
what this government thinks about The
water route between the Atlantic ma Pa.
cine. He protests that there is no inten-
ton On tho part Of the French company a
sell The canal and says that ii has only one
purpose in view and that ii 10 cut the biz
ditch at oace.
When asked II the published rcporls ina,
MS company wanted 20 sell out to the
government was true N. Hutin said. "Ah.
soiNely no. Selling out is the last thing
we should think OF. We want 10 cut The
canal and We are realty to 10 it. What i.
npoie, We are doing il. We have kept lou
70 SVov men constantly employed In digging
.ne canaa ana force OF 1000 Is now u.
work on the ditch
What has been accomplishet?n
Much. We have actually dug eighteen
mites OF the toaa forty-six. or these yes-
sens are now navigating twelve mi les ON IN,
a ,.il-S and SIN miles on the Pacific side
me CANALS depth is twenty Eight feet
thoush m some places 1t has made bars
.nAt would have ito be removed and can be
removed easily. Our compAny which is
the successor BY purchase OF Che De Les
sepS company. has IN assets, Reckoning as
such tho machinery and accomplished
work. at least Io,010,000 These assets have
neel appraised al 95,000,000. We have
gone Ear enough to learn that the Panama
canal Is entirely practicable end is the
snortesi. cheapest ard best water route be-
tween the two oceans. There were for
merry thought TO be two insuperable oh
stdcies. the Charges river and the Cuiehra
cut. Both of these difficulties have disap-
peared before engineering science. The
Charges fiyer can be readily mastered AL l
the cut through the Culebra mountain,
which was oncc though. impracticable be-
cause of the sliding earth sllal filled the
ditch as fast as II could be dug. turned out
TO be a comparatively simple problem. 1t
has been found that there is q rock sub
suhtum through which the canal can be
out SO that 1t can mot be DISTURBED by slid
ing earth,
An International technical commission
has recently examined the route OF our
canal and VIII. think, pronounce II en-
tirelv feasuble. On thai commission were
General H. l., Abbott anG engineers who
had had experience in digging the great
Manchester and Kiel canals. General ABB
bolt has given his views On several articles
III the periodicals. He calls attention 10
these two Facts: THE Panama canal would
be forty-sIS miles long and the Nicaragua
canal would be l76 miles; tho Panama
would cost $780, 100000 while the Nicara
qua would cost $lS30OO,0o0.
Il may add 10 thsse facts given by Cen
e.al Abbott the important one tlrat the
Panama canal can be completed In less
Shan Ealf the time it would take TO cut
the waterway Nicaragua
When asked about his object in goiUg
10 Washington NJ. HwIn said I'VE want
10 know lust what interest the United
States will take in The canal. We are
trying to get the government 10 buy rs
OFT. but it Is natural that the United
States, being deeply affected by the canal
will fesl keen interest m Ii AMI It is
equally natural that We should want 70
learn just what the extent OF that interest
may be-
NJ. Hutin will 20 to Washington in a
few days.