Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-07-27

the Italian there is from his own lard
macaroni, cheese and tomato paste
for his soup: for the Spanlard, dried
4 fish, Spanish red wine, another kind
of cheese. olives and garbanzos, a
bean from Algiers, lacking which the
/ Spaniard will go on a strike For the
| West Indian negroes there arc yams
and native fruit from J,Ea,ca and
! tor the coolies from Inl'a, rice that
| comes all the way frmo Raneonn
For the American there IS everything
that he loves. The price of meat on
the zone, although it has been trans
ported by land and sea three thous
and miles, is less than in Yerington.
Every part of the world is helping to
feed the army at the canal. Phila
delphia supplies cheese; Missouri
sends eggs: New York State apples;
Germany sausage and wild boar; Scot
land breakfast foods; England ex-
ports marmelade and kippered her
ring. Last year Texas contributed
sixty thousand water melons at $l.25
each The Commission furnished
them to the employees for twenty-five
cents.
The canal itself, the gigantic com
plicated series of traps between the
oceans. the walls of concrete and |
steel. disemboweled mountains, is |
hard to understand Great DAMS EN-
bankments, railroads. channels and |
railroad bridges. that in the States I
would be photographed and advertised I
as the wonders of some scenic route. |
they throw across chasm on Mon
day and tear down on Friday. Oh, /
Al. Al
Disasters and obstacles that would
put an ordinary mining or railroad
company ont of business. they accept
as a matter of course. A landslide
buried three steam shovels and loco
motives and dirt cars while we were
there Col Cocktails looks at his
watch and says: That's annoying.
it will put back our date of opening
three minutes and thirty-three sec
onds
This army uses only two million
pounds of dynamite month and all
day thousands of explosions split the
air. thousands of steam whistles
scream. thousands of air drills stab
and hammer at the living rock. thous
ands of dirt trains toss and roll over
the tracks that only have been laid
twenty four hours before. and which
have served their purpose, and which
are then picked up intact, as you pick
up rug from the floor, and laid else
where
SO, like a wild-eyed child, one i
left gasping and wondering But to
admire what the engineers
hav accomplished one must have the
OF a Cecil Rhodes and the
special knowledge of a John Hays
Hammond As a picture. these giant
locks rising from the swamp. hembled
in by the jungle. are so mysterious. so
in such surroundings thar
they give the thrill that comes from
he sight of great monuments to great
religions One has to write OF them
without the first aid of smiles. There
is nothing with which TO compare
them As a feat of engineering the
Pyramids of Egypt are as a child plac
ing one block on top of another. in
with those locks. In all
the big cities we have seen buildings
Of cement and steel. but they were
reared on rock and not in a Jungle
nor were they built two thousand
niles from the base of SUPPLIES. Nor
we're the men who reared them. while
hey worked with one hand. forced
with TIL other 80 hold at bay a
reacherous river and two great
oceans. In the water ways the big
lredges. like great battleships, with
, rattle of giant anchor chains. drop ,
heir scoops in the water and drag ,
them out again. staggering under tons
Of mud For fifty miles. which is the
length of the canal. the battle is on
for fifty miles there is the roar and
rumble of ore trains rushing at top
speed; the cracking of giant derricks
and aerial cranes; the impatient. ear
splitting Shrieks and commands OF the
steam whistles
1t is all hand-to-hand fight. and to
tell you any more is beyond me. so |
remain
Yours verv truly.
GEORGE r. PRINGI.E