The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-13

Mrs. Reed. OF the Hotel Elks. emplDy-
ed by the government I'm Panama,
acting as correspondent for The Leal-
er. IS well known 20 the young society
people OF Guthrie. He was o student
at "a Chicago dcntal college but went
to accept spleudid place offered by
one OF his former associates. His let
ters will be features OF The Guthrie
Leader dusiug the winter
Bas Obispa Panama. Nov. 1.-Two
weeks | have been with those work
/ Ing in the great Culebra cut, made
/ famous as the point where the en-
/ gincers OF De Lesseps failed TO con-
/ quer, and down neEr whore the
| Americans are snow working were
found many articles used by th,
fated French company only few To-
cades back
The canal commission. 50 tnc re-
port yesterday shows. contractesf for
II 2O0000 pounds OF dynamite to he
delivered at once. Sixty-fOur per cen.
o7 this viii De used In lifting the dirt
ana rocks in this Cuehra cut. The
O.dcr also calls for 5000 miles OF fuse;
600000 blasting caps and such other
material tor blasting purpos IS, 10 the
! ItiNIh NdfliH ltD NhAMithHt vi iut
magnitude, seeming Ike the order OF
an insane person. An of this blasting,
preparing and execution of science
must 20 ;iJHe 5c'Orc the steam shSveis
will 80 dDNn into the cut and com.
mence loading the fat cars. Interest
In the WORK IS great and the visiting
engineers from all parts OF the wosld
are here almost every day, all anxious
Tor the final test OF blasting work
The French removed from this cut
the enormous sum of 81. .54S 900 cubic
yards Of dirt, the create, portion helng
done In 1880. less than thirty Yeas
ego. The Americans have taken 2i.-
2G27g0 cubic yaris from Culebr..
while those down on either SHE have
taken the difference between ;hat and
G5,370205 cubic yards.
The canal Nill have a width at the
r top OF 400 fee: 430 faot in tne widest
point at the crest Of the cut: 1860 feet
deep ANA with width OF 200 feet on
tho bottom.
Jamaica furnishes the greater num-
Der OF the Gctual laborers for he work
J. ana ~ pay including a few pe-qu,
isites you would SPUN, IS 20 cents
per hour (silverJ, The scale is nine
hours, aud there are Jamaicans who
assert there are verso than acaies to
: be found where the hangers-on ara
waiting FOR their victims. Be II said
; To the enterprise of the money lenle-
he has no preference for races, being
y willing 10 roE who2- ever has 20 little
sense rs 90 commence paying toll
Messcs are furnished the laborer who
gets the 26 cents Per hour. 30 cents
per day ucing the charge, but this Is
Ia gold making a difference of Gg 2-3
pc. cent There are 10000 unrsarrled
u blacks at work and you ought to see
one OF these divisions fed. Thousands
file into the breakfast rooms at the
mess, from five 10 half past five each
- morning and a lgif hour Is given at
noon corn meal mrsh. bread ami
/, coffee is the breakfast fare. luncheon
- is bread, beef stew, all sorts OF vege.
tables and tropical fruits. beans. rice
potatoes, yams. AT dinner from Ave TO
six the Jamaicans can have iough-
boys, soup, Irish aud sweet potatoes,
. rcast beef, -ice and beans. with cof.
fee served at all meals
Conmissory hotels serve rs whites
at 30 cents per meal. (gold1 aud we
get more than we wish of the vege.
p tables and fruits. with meats shipped
from Fort Worth, Texas. or East St
Louis. Illinois
Individual houses are supplied for
the married men; they get their p-o-
p yenrr from the cOmmissary, paying
I, p nominal price CristObal near Colon.
: Is conmissary town and there hnd the
=. provisions for fully 10000 people The
Panama railroai once hs,l this prlvil-
r.. o8o but failed TO make Il p 'ontable.
" and the road vent % sac goyernmcrt
y Co. 1904
= Any resident OF The Canal zone IS
: privileged 20 bay from this commls-
" sary twentyone cars per day being
require 90 hrndle tha fDcdstun shin.
"a ped Dy this greet eating supply house
/, purch7scr 0-r he ~~f, -
house by supply coupons-gold roll
% (whitel employees benz
a aa ISSUED 10 them three-fourths OF
their wages; silver ron 0aborers) are
N en'ltlei 10 draw as much as Sl5 per
h month In supply coupons Of tie COM
% nis-arv Al Cristoh1i "a q rold g'~-.
age Plant. l32 il2. three stories ia
8 heigif. with an lee piant having a
/, capacity OF IS tons per day. The
bake has a capacity Of 20 600 lDaves
~
a 600 pies. There ls an ice cream far
tory making 500 gallons OF ice cream
I per day selling at 81 per gallon.
d SO Won sea iifa '- p~t ~ 49,. ~
s IS eye- something doing and hundreds
10 n gCc vounq ren 81 WI
IS here. making money ar enjoying IN
s. M trs'r absence from home The
vmsp ere nurses, teachers. clerks
and stenographers. drawing IN gold
.e from S7i 10 1925 per month and earn
ID Ing all they draw. too. for that mat
IL ter TT trim f-om Colon to Panama
s Is one all take on Sundays. and the
great Culebra, over the mountain
e which We ascend and descend shows
n Us whCre the science OF nxlneern, f.
and American grit cenbine. are 10
~ nnect tfe two great Oceans. Is On
y object Of interest always. even 20
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