El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-16

which was made by the Rothsckilds
originally and finally turned over to
the British government That invest
ment OF s2Q,000,000 was one Of the best
John Bull has ever made. The stock
which he has bought is now worth
more than $50, 00O, 600, and IL has paid
s6o,0oQ.0oo or sI0,0o0,0oo in DIVIDENDS.
II FanaIna should turn out equally well
Il would give Uncle Sam a surplus
big enough TO Join the great lakes 10
the gulf by similar waterway.
Panama Versus suez-
Beside the work Of building the Pan
more than a chOre. The Suez canal Is
only a great ditch through the desert,
where the earth IS soft sand and the
ground is comparatively smooth. II is
a sea-level canal and that without
locks, At Panama the canal cuts right
through the backbone OF the Andes,
and at Culebra alone we shall have
TO- cut ont more earth and rock than
the Egyptians lifted in their whole ex-
eavstion. In the ditch at Suez the dirt
asu sand could be left on the banks, but
al Panama it has had TO be carted
miles away.
The Suez excavation was soft in most
places, and IL was only here and there
that rock had to be cut At Panama
some OF the work has been almost like
blasting through iron, and it is only
the steam shovel that has enabled US
20 conquer the difficulty
The Suez canal was excavated al
most by hand. Twenty thousand Egyp-
ton peasants were employed at a time
ana they scooped the dirt up in bas-
kets. Ihey got from to 10 cents a
day, ana many Of them worked under
the lash ana were not paid at all Our
canal has been constructed with the
mightiest Of modern machinery; so ef-
Ilclent that had II been used at Suez
that canal could have been constructed
az one third OF the cost and within one
tenth OF the time
Trip Through the Canal.
The trip on the Panama canal will
pe one OF the great sights Of the world.
AZ VII take one through some OF the
most picturesque scenery Of the troD-
les, where there viii be palm trees.
panama trees and the other vegetation
fb-o,-,-,S, mes me equator. It viii be
itLILou=n a mountainous region, over
1dkes and up and down the mighty wa /
teL steps known as locks.
LAe Suez canal is a trip through the /
tSsefL The only difference between /
II and the ordinary trip OF that kind Is /
nat one rides on the deck of a steam /
instead Of on the back Of a camel /
10 Sun II has wonderful beauties /
s--S1i our canal will not have. The l
t IA tllne passed through from Suez 1
~ Loft said I spent the night on the !
eeIaL- Our ship was steaming through i
t-C,,sssee Husi under the stars Of the /
~ 80. We had a great round moon 4
u burning copper which turned the /
--@t 70 molten silver and our path
vas made still brighter BY the I
o1,,e = ~ s.gaIcnAghts which blazed from \
n.y., Is llead and PROV. Standing /
tipon the deck, we could see. now and /
80; on the banks a caravan OF nm /
Si S,y eamels with their ghost-like /
down ne N white bobbing up and 4
N lnoer the moon.
60, passed many steamers whose /
,1 -. ing hts made one think Of a
eve Ce 80 SS-opean demons, each with an 4
~ OF IRE In his forehead rnarcbin1
on 70 attack him. We bs5 - - si.ll-s
r. ne canal is already too small for
- -a1-lc and ships are allowed 10
Iftt1o I'VE or six miles an hour +
$3.50 AScesses have been emf INFO tbe
te IlllAs mere and there where uro1
nm - SilC notice. vessels have to tie
The w olher vessels to pass
nal 80 ere many dredges in the ca
iDa go steam pumps are kent sr7cr-
thhg me sand from fhs botto-, -
canal fSs- - out upon the banks. The
but it nh a lttle over 80 feet deep /
end to tn "a soon be IS feet from one
or 80 - Otner Within the mast vear I
50 many millions Of IONS of ssssL
Tctt ~ ga nave been taken one - ~ ~.
e1i5e + ana there is now talk OF u-id-
side for The % building another by the
e surplus traffic
The Corinth shin cam,
It is not a far 49,
LleeSs- II lies on TIE otbe- 80 ~
- -lleult efranean, and NOT lon~ 80
~ olii.l1,osed mostly of what is NV
,-b5cl 80 Hu and the Peloponnesus
- - Joined TO it by the istbmus
OF Corlntn In 1898 this isthnns v-ss
cut Lhrough by the Corinth canal. and
iCwSL IIssce was thus turned into an
lsiaho 4 ms shortens the journey from
ne ne =. AuL 20 20 the Piraeus by over zoo
miles, ana the canal should be one ~
the trade routes of the Mediterranean.
II Is not When I visited il a year or
SO ago there was comparatively little
shpplng gong through, and / was told
that the canal Is so situated that it