Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-04-13
On CANAL.
Chief Engineer Makes Report as to
Present, Condition on Isthmus.
HEALTH OF The AMERICANS is Good.
Tkinks Plans should Keep n View
the Feasibility Of n Sea Level
Canal--WiIl Take Two Years
to Get Machinery.


washington, April 12.-John +. Wal
lace. chief engineer Of the lsthmian
canal and new member thereof, said
Tuesday that there. are now practically
I'VE thousand men engaged under MS
direction on the engineering and con-
structlng work OF the canal. The work
of installing an American plant az
Culebra is going forward as fast as
the machinery and supplies can be Sc
cured on the Isthmus. and when MT.
Wallace left there were six American
steam shovels at work in the CuleDra
excavation and arrangements have
been made to install additional ma
chimes at the rate Of two month.
During the last 30 days laborers have
been coming in freely from Costa RIGA,
Jamaica and Barbados.
The health Of the young Americans
on the isthmus Ia particularly good.
There has been very little sickness and
comparatively few fatalities have re-
suited. Those that have occurred gen
orally have been Of persons who have
led improper lives or who have been
affected with some functional disorder.
The employees from the states have
been remarkably free from fever.
The work Of installation Of the plant
and the organization Of the force ct
rnlahra. Il advancing RAPIDLY and each
.,,rr.h ~ o,,tnut N material ia in
t',o Wv 49, 800 ~ AGo-oh
cfeas'ns. DuI,ns tne aUa'n - ~ H.
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eACaVa1eu IN 'uly' s.u...u,on.
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y beginning 10 SNOW very po',, ~,
suns Inc wH'sr SUPPLY ~
~ rAnalnA WIN De avei'Ave =. 'S III.
wa.er supply syssens ., H'.o 80 ~ .he
installed ~ val,ous po'u So, ,o.no
sine q me canAl wolA' $780, 49,, ~
notels lor .ne aooo l, .S
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cOn.enleu - oouu,uons az inp.o ~.
ma tnere nus continued n " 70 '''"u'
accession 70 tne Iorce, ,,,
t,6nai m m1 5,s ~ 3s p sn 10 U CON.
tlnuo ME Investigation and experiment
Vvorlr tba ynoro relIablo will he the data
available for use in deciding on a
plan for the canal He also empha-
aIved tbo statement that thus far he
has M committed himself to any def
1nIta nlan bevond his official recon-
,randatlona tn the former isthmian
canal commission He takes the
ground FRAT No Man shouId be adopted
srh,ch would nrevert tbe ultimate and
economical construction Of a sea level
ranal should auch ba decided on M
anv staro n tha work or even after
fha canal has been constructed.
In tho event that the expert ensin-
sera VINO viii he called on 70 recon-
t1us,d plan decide that Il will be
tass,ble from a nhvsical and engineer
M stsndnoInt n construct either a
w w ,evel canal or one Al 4 higher leyel.
NJ wallace saws then the decision
viii resoIve ,tseif into one OF general
nstional policv and mot one Of ensin.
eerInr
n ansver 10 n ouest,on "A 10 the
neoassitv 81 an immediate decision nv
~ comn,as,on On ! MAN ~ Construct
lon NJ WaIlSco aaid that n vould
reouire about ,vo Years N manufacture
ara ,n,tsIi .hs nscsSssrv rSchInsrv N
scmnlata the srcavstlor sor ! canal
(, 1 eO-too, laval vorE which would
4. nscssasrv n am event During thls
1900 amr,s I'm. wilI ha sfordad
~ srvs,,Isat,or .rA tho,o,,.h ara,v-
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