The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-21
BIG DITCH
PROGRESS
SATISFIES
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WORK ON PANAMA CANAL
BEING RAPIDLY
PUSHED
Chief ENGINEERS REPORT
PLEASING TO DEPARTMENT
Not All Smooth Sailing, Though.
with Slides, Breaks
and Floods
(By Associated Press)

Washington d. c., Nov 2l.--Sum-
married. In q phrase, "Satie'Nctory
progress all along the Panama canal
zone Is the gist Of the annual report
OF the lsihmian canal commission
made TO Secretary OF War Dickinson
By Colonel George W. Goethals, chair
man of the commission and chlrf en-.
glmeer In charge OF the work 90 the
canal, and made public by the form
ef
with the work OF excavation and OF
construction progressing favorably al
all points along the line, with health
conditions better than ever before,
with a Capitalization and consequent
economy In certain parts or the work
and with maximum Ol lab0rcrs since
the United States began TO dis the
canal, Colonel Goethas report wasI
decidedly plersing to Secretary Dick
insOn.
The chief engineer reports how
ever that II was mot all smooth saii-
ing during The laai year, slides, breaks
and floods hindcring the work TO
certain extent lie mentions four
sndes, covering respectively A. 73.
4:6 and l7 acres and requiring dur
ing the year the removal of more than
million cubic yards of material.
III was expected" he says, that
slides would occur, and in the esti.
mates provision was made for them,
out II now appears from cracks that
show In the upper surface adjacent
| % the faces OF the cut that sufficient
| allowance had not been made and the
estimates were corrected to meet the
| new conditions.
Breaks at Cuebra.
Three bad breake he reports, oc.
CURED during the year, one at the
town OF Cu!ebra, covering an area OF
more than ten acres and requiring
| removal OF more than n million and
half cubic yards OF dirt and stones
| The second largest break covered an
area Of more tnaf eleven acres and
required a removal Of more than 800.
coo cubic yards, while the third break
aggregated abont 10000 cubic Yards.
The floods seriously inlerferred
with the progress of the work says
| Colonel Goethals. referring In partic-
| ular TO that Of the central division and
he Culebra cut. and the one OF De-
cember 20 oyerflowed The dixie sepaf-
ating the cut from the Chagres river
cutting channel through II about 200
feet long and u feet deep"
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
per cent OF the amount removed dur.
| ing the year from the Culehra cut,
the principal part Of the central di-
| vision.
Material Removed.
More than 20. 500, 900 cubic yards Of
material were removed from all parts
| Of the canal during the year, OF when
| almost l5,0O0.0O0 were from the Gu
Zebra cut and almost i0.O00,O00 from
the Chagres section. Abou, $4,000.
600 cubic yards remain TO be renoY-
eI from the Cu.eLra cut Depre this
section OF the canal Is Completed
Reports from various points along
the line show that the cost Of exca-
| yaiion varied from "A cents per cubic
yard at one place to ae high as $2.5l
at another. There Is no such diyerg-
ence Of price In the concrete work.
the lowest average being S609 and
the highest $3.50 More than 100000
cubic yards OF concerto were laid
during the yaar Economy has been
sought By The commission IN varions
directions