The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-19
WORK ON b|CJOb
D0VVNAT PANAMA.
Graphic Pictures OF What is Go
ing on II, the cul-
ebra Cut
FRANK CARPENTER is THERE
Special Correspondent OF The
'rimes-Dispatch Writes About
Beginning Of Undertaking.
I3v Frank G. Carpenter.

fspee,al Correspondent of The Times
DispatchD
IN THE CULEBRA CUT, AZ ftiAlus :
II OF PANAMA. March III have come ~ y
Panama TO tell you how lncle san, -, IS
digging his big ditch4from ocean to ocean;
i nave travelled over the line of.tne G ,.ll
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. ..ia,,..
talked with the engineers OF the valiu l 10
sections and In COMPANY Viii I Gn,gl
walked over the greater part on 5tiie
sit in the culebra cut as Write Write, With ,na
with steam drills boring holes INTO lhe ,
.,nrks Tor blasting and with the new steam
shoveIs puffing away as they load the
cars each doing the work OF NUM- Gus ' u
men. i,,s
h i am in the midst of the ount "a
Ragged. rough and covered with a dense ,,IIs,s
growth of vegetation, they rise hisn
above the great rocky gorge II I when
nc the water lies In the bottom o. .n nv,
cut, and looking up and down the gorge
a can sea the work of the t>rehch eng,
noers They labercd thirty Years ans
srent here and In Paris $3.50, eco 600 In gold;
out they worked in the dark. and win
boodling and bad business accompils ,,,i,
only one-tonth Of THIS seScsaSali i nv
1hcy never ascertained the cost est mates
4of men, machinery, and material Whicil
are absolutely essential o3any atlonal de-;
auction TO Ine w ~
build the canal or the money needed for for
the purpose. !, !. -,
and the chief engineer are DOME 70 Gay lay;
They are making the tests which Will
form the basis OF all estimates and CON.
tracts for the work of the future. IheTes
are now gangs of men all along the line
of the canal under the charge 81 s s,,a,t
ar lat the the headwaters .of the chagres
md Others are at various places along
Its course making borings for tun ny, 5
for the haTDof excavations at the Al,
5lantic and Pacific 5en1s of the canal ana
Others are testing every foot Of dredging
to sheSmade throug h the lowlands and on
the rises to the Culebra Cut. 55E
i84 Here at Culetorh there is q small army,
at work, a part OF gitausing the old French
and others Workl Y the s. e,.e
lions of the pass and ascertaining to a
.centsand a minute just what It Will cost cost
in time and money to get each kind sol
mental, but at the same time pra tical.
Every day takes out and carries away
& mass of material which will not have 70
z be handled again. md his while the
great undertaging Of the future. If
In$addition to this the sanitation pro-
tectss are going rapidly on. The vege-
tation has been cut a way from, the score
OF the Panama railroad and drains made
off into the bushes. The streets Of
Panama City are dug up for the new
sewers and waterWorks, and n great
4 reservoir for a supply or fresh water has
: been made In the mountains.
The architects and carpenters are
everywhere preparing quarters for the
men. Hundreds of the old French build
isings are being remodled and the sound
of the hammer and saw can be heard
from one end of the 1sthmus to the other.
+ The old French materials have been chop-
ned out of the bushes and machine shops
have been erected MT Panama, Colon, Bas