The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-01-26

Engineer Stevens believes their eff
cheney as workers will be Increased.
and Doctor Gorgas believes that tneir
power to Withstand disease will be
p~erceptibly magniied.
While we nave been providing for
the health, welfare, and comfort OF
employees we have completed 20 OF
the 35 miles of the double track con-
templated for the Panama Railroad
n nave the remaining Is miles two
thirds finished. We have constructed
a great terminal yard at Cristobal
which would be a credit to any rail
way in the United States. We have
virtually completed at Pedro Miguel
on the Pacific side of the Culebra
cut and at Las Cascades on the Allan
tic side two great receiving and for
warding yards which are to act as
clearing houses for the dirt rains
moving down from the various levels
of the cut to the yards, there to be
switched and forwarded owe HI
main line Of the Panama Railroad for
final disposition. The terminal yard
at La Boca, work OF which was delay
ed by reason of uncertainty as to the
type of canal, is about IS per cent
completed AID will soon be finished.
We nave added to the railway rolling
stock 1S4 locomotives, 1900 fat cars,
Il OZi duHD CARS, OOU IVA CdIS, III L
gerator cars, 6 caboose cars, 10 pas
senger cars, 4 baggage and mail cars.
63 steam shovels, % earth s%preaders,
% rapid unloaders, 3 dipper dIedges,
2 Seagoing suction dreugeS, 2 pipe
line dredges, II steel barges, and 2
tugs; also 8 locomotive cranes, 2
wrecking rane n 1 pile driver.
Following out the policy of locating
within the Canal one all necessary
additions to facilities, and i'll order
to meet the heavy demands of enlarg-
ed traffic at the Atlantic terminus,
two large wharves have been complet-
ed at Cristobal, each capable of ac-
commodating at the same time two
ships of the largest draft. One of
these has been rooted Owe to provide
propert protection to shipments, n
both are equipped with the most mod
ern appliances. A modern coal hoist
ing plant has been established, which
will reduce the cost of handling coal
from % to 6 cents pei ton, and will
make it possible to discharge coal
vessels approximately every five days
The harbor has been dredged, so that
the largest ships can use the new
wharves, and in future all steamers
of the Panama line will dock there.
A new wharf at La Boca mas been
completed and is connected with he
old steel wharf, thereby providing
berths for three additional ships.
While all his work has been il
progress within the Canal Zone we
nave converted the city of Panama,
which two years ago was without a
ement or sewers or water supply into
the best paved the best watered, and
the best severed city in Central Am
erica, or the northern half of South
-oN; Nv have onrf cd for
it a great reservoir with al abundant
supply of pure water, and installed
for it a fire service which on two Oc-
c~asions has saved the city from de-
! StructiOn by fire. We have also con-
| structed for Cristobal and Colon a
great reservoir, with a capacity of
sos 900, 900 gallons, which is now full.
We have paved the main street of
Colon with vitriied brick, laid on
concrete, and are raising the surfaces
of other streets and covering them
with crushed rock. Colon, because
of its low elevation above tide water
(onfy a foot and a half, a never
be made an attractive city, but it
can De made healthy and can be Civ
en- a decent appearance, and these
changes are now in progress.
AS l said to you in the opening part
OF my address, the work of actual eX-
cavatiOn was restricted during the
creative period to merely prepara-
tory lines. Still, something has been
done il the direction of making the
dirt fly. During the fiscal year
ending with June last 100000 cubic
yards were taken from the canal
prism, against 742,000 yards removed
during the previous year. Notwith-
standing the rainy season, which ex-
tends from h end Of April to the
end of December, there was, during
the month of August, 1906, a total
excavation in the Culebra cut of 244,-
S44 cubic yards, which was the larg-
est amount taken out up to that time
during any one month since the ca
nal has beel under American control.
In September. 1906, the total exca-
walton was 291.450 cubic Yards, and
in October, 1906, it was 326,0O0 cubic
| yards. Altogether, the surface in the
Culebra Cut has been brought down
SIS feet below the level left by the
French. A large amount of the eXca-
waited material has been used in fill
ing for railroad yards and double
tracking of the Panama Railroad
Much of it mas been k to old
French dumps and to new dumps re-
Gently placed-two at Miraf1ores, two
| at Pedro Miguel, one 1t Rio Grande,
one a Mamei, one 1t Bias Obispo, one
at Haut Obispo and a very large one
2 miles long at Tabernilla. We have
at present a force of 80 steam shoyels
available for work. Most of them
| are at work in the canal prism, main
ly in tae great cut. Others will be ad
| ded as fast as the additional railway
tracks and dumping grounds neces-