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I .-tle more than month ago tie
giant steam shovels finished the!r
%orE Il the Culeb-a cut Since tina:
tirae t1e wo7kmea have been busy
removing the shovels the railroad
tracks and other machinery used il
the excavation work There is still
sone dirt TO be removed from the cur
before the channel is finished, bu;
this work will be done by suction
dredges floating on the waters Of the
canal, and will not interfere with nav.
igation CT the waterway By such boats
Is MAJ be allowed TO pass through
Immense Artificial Lake Created.
Gatun lake, the waters OF which are
now flowing into the Culebra cut, Is
the pivotal point about which the en-.
tire canal system revolves, and the
creation OF this lake. together with the
construction of Gatun dam, consti.
tuted another great engineering feat
IN the construction OF the canal. Cat
III lake is an artificial body OF water
covering about 164 square miles OF
territory and was created by the
building Of the immense Gatun dam
and the impounding OF the wild wa.
ters OF Chagres river. Beneath the
waters Of Gatun lake lies what few
months ago was the valley of the
Chagres. dotted with native villages
and plantations. The channel of the
canal passes through this lake for a
distance of "a miles with width vary.
I ing from 500 to 1000 feet.
At the northern end of the lake
is the Gatun dam, which is in reality
an artificial ridge more than mile
and a half long. Figures alone give
an adequate idea of the magnitude OF
this dam. Nearly half mile wide at
it's base, about 400 feet wide at the
water surface and 100 feet wide at
the top. the dixie which many en-,
/ gineers predicted would never with.
stand the rush Of the Chagres' wa,
tiers, is admitted now to be so strong
I that nothing short OF an earthquake
/ such as has never been known in the
| Central American region can harm
/ It. The Gatun dam, Gatun lake and
the Culebra cut, so gigantic are the
proportions of each, dwarf the other
/ engineering works of the canal that
in themselves have challenged the ad
miration of the world
World Gives Goethals Credit
To Col George Goethals. chairman
! of the lsthmian canal commission
chief engineer OF the commission and
! governor of the canal zone, the world
will give the credit for the successful
! completion of the Panama canal. Col
Goethals could not have accomplish