Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-06

i the expense Of conquering thel blue
i clay was avoided and the locks NOV
ed to Miraflores. 81
y have quoted from Col. Cocktails
report sof August Is, 1903, OF wnicn
borrowed a copy from q good 1rienu'
This publication Of 1853 pages. emDroc-
ing various maps and illustrations
was limited to one copy for eacn sen.
ator and congressman. Paragraphs
occur like this: "The old village Of
Gatun has bee torn down and NOV
! 1 to new site on the hills TO Inv
east" ,e:S. ,s ,..~.G .s,.>5s.y. =. -
I'm order to afford additional fire
| protection to Ancor Panama and La
Boca, q million gallon reserve stor-
age reservoir is to be constructed on
Ancon Hill"
The cost of water works, paving
and sewerage in Panama and 'Colon
is to be reimbursed to the United
States through the collection Of water
rates. The rate is 80 cents per 1000
gallons at Panama with five per cent
off for cash, while at Colon fifty cents
per 1000 gallons with. ten per cent on
~ "rhe A total cost Of municipal i'm
proyemcnts In the canal zone has
been for waterworks and sewers. ~
,35S,S4O, and for roads, etc., $l,l74,'
| u.s." !"
! "By executive order the Chinese
/ exclusion law for the government OF
Panama, was extended to the canal
zone."
Total expenditures so far for canal
| nnrnOses amounts to $84,572,998.
The subject of sea level canal Is
| an attractive one. At best such q
canal would have to have q 22-foot
lock at Mirahores near the Pacific to
| equalize the tides, but as Goethals
| says, If one could dig hills instead Of
| Of mountains the matter would be
tsimplifed. "a" -.
| Eighty-five feet deeper excavation
| with wideningi slopes-and widening
slides-would take time and money in
abundance, involving q cost Of $685.
OOO, 900 as against 1876, 100000. q.
A seal level canal would leave the
bed of Chargers river fifty feet above
| the water surface of the canal. This
in itself would involve q dam of ma
sorry $500 feet long with sluice
gates for discharging its waters into
the canal. The other streams would
be damned or divided but not less
than twenty-five would flow directly
into the canal with no provision to
control the currents or check the de-
posits of material carried in during
flood stages. - -.
Those of you who want to go to
heaven sprout wings, and sing with
the angels, go along. Those who want
to join the croakers and knock at
such enterprise as is being displayed
in Panama canal construction. should
sprout horns and put on the devils
TAIL {: ~. I
For my part forego both Injuries
| and dream OF time when I can take
vacation and go down on the zone
and talk. with the canal employees,
sit on the edge somewhere and watch
the construction of the Gatun dam.
Watch the hurrying mud trains and
dump cars and American locomotives
| 20 to and fro; see how the mountains
has been split for passage way; the
great lake being created; harbors
made safe. for the, shipping of the
world. ": =. F$
1 want to drape with the American
udS SLStaM 6AOVSA W. 6AVs SAA3s IA
eight hours took out $3.50 cubic yards
of earth, steam shovel No. 219, which
in twenty-four working days took out
53,04S cubic yards Of rock, and steam
shovel No. 222. which in 295 working
days took out 387, 1853 cubic yards, Of
rock and 1886 cubic yards OF earth,
a total. OF. 4O2, 009 cubic: yards.
Goethals must be simply chief Of
many Of his kind with an aggregate Of
American intelligence making good
consummating q great peaceful con-
quest over nature for the good OF
mankind. Doing things more glorious
than ever achieved in war. Digging
for and erecting monument that the
present and future generations Of our
people may look upon with pride and
satisfaction and say: "This is q work
Of my. countrymen, built with unset
ash dollars contributed by the ma
tion." s~:sS5. +. a.. =, 3. .&5@l{ .;..1 \
~. J.>E. PHELAN.
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