The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-11-21
GOOD PROGRESS
ON THE CANAL
Over 36,5OO,OOO CUBIC YARDS
MOVED DURING YEAR
35,5.s Men Employed; Health Con-
ditions Improye-Death Rate
Only 1854 Per Cent.
NO PLAQUES DURING YEAR

NdSulHStOn, NOV. Gum
married. in phrase, satisfactory
progress all along the Panama Canal
zone" is the gist of the annual re-
port of the isthmian canal commits
sion, made to the secretary of war,
Dickinson, by Colonel George
Goethals, chairman of the commits
I sion and chief engineer in charge OF
the work on the canal, and made
public by the former.
With the work of excavation and
of construction progressing favorably
at all points along the line, with
health conditions better than ever
before. with a Capitalization and con-
sequent economy in certain parts OF
/ the work and with a maximum OF
|flaborers since the United States be-
gan to dig the canal, Col. Goethal :
report was decidedly pleasing to
Secretary Dickinson.
h The chief engineer reports, how
ever. that Il was not all smooth sail
Ing during the past year. slides
breaks and floods kindering the
work TO a certain extent He men
lions four slides. covering respec-
lively A., IS. &C and IL acres and
requiring during the year the re-
moval of more than a million cubic
wards of material. ut was ex-
pected." he saws. that slides would
occur. and in the estimates provision
was made for them. but IL now APP
pears from cracks that show In the
upper surface adjacent TO the faces OF
the cut, that sufficient allowance had
mot been made. AMI the estimates
Were corrected 10 meet the new con-
ldltions."
Three bad breaks. he reports. oc-
lourred during the year. one at the
town of Culebra covering an area OF
more than ten acres and requiring a
removal of more than a million and
a half of cubic yards OF dirt and
stone. The second largest break
covered an area Of more than IL
acres and required removal OF
more than 100000 cubic yards while
the third break aggre gated about
10000 cubic yards.
The total amount Of material re-
moved from slides and breaks In the
,central division OF the canal during
the year was more than two and a
half million cubic yards, or about 10
lper cent Of the amount removed dur
ing the year fr m the Culebra cut,
the principal part Of he central dlyl-
sion.
More than 3G.5OO.O 900 public wards
lof material were removed from all
lparts of the canal during the year, OF
which almost 5000, 900 were from
the Culebra cut and almost 10000
loco from the Chagres section. About
l35. OOO.O 900 cubic wards remain to be
removed from the Culebra cut before
this section OF the canal is com
lpleted.
Reports from various points along
1.-THE line show that the cost of exca-
walton varied from "a cents per cubic
yard at one place to as high as s2g5l
at another There is no such diver
/ Igence of price in the cost of per cubic
p lyard of concrete work, the loves
/ average being 5000 and the highesi
$500. More than 100000 cubi'
p yards of concrete were lad during
the year.
There was a steady increase from
the beginning Of the past fiscal veal
in the number Of employees on thu
canal zone, until March 80 last, the!
reached a maximum Of 3S.676. thu
largest force on record. This in
cludes those employed on the Pana
Ina railroad The total force at thu