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cheaper rates to Pacific ports. Bulk
products like lumber. wool. hides.
wheat and wines will get lower freight
rates through the canal from the IA
citic ports. Australia Will be four
thousand miles nearer to the Atlantic
ports, thus cheapening the freight on
the wool from that country. 1t VIII
cost about 100000 Annually to oper-
ate the canal and about twenty-five
hundred employees viii! be required.
Duli,on A Real City.
Balboa, at the Pacific terminal. Will
likely become the big city of the Cana'
Zone, as many of the employees wh"
have charge of the locks Will i've
there. Great dry-docks. wharves. re-
pair shops and warehouses and other
facilities to the canal are In course OF
erection, several OF which are at Bal
boa. one of the monster 27O-ton
cranes to be used in handling wrecks
or accidents in the canal or locks will
he kept at that point. fuel station.
100. Will be located at Balboa. A large
number of transents may be counted
upon as many people viii leave the
ships at this point. Buyers. tIo. Will
meet vessels there.
Christobal, the Atlantic terminus. Is
already n thriving town.. ana the ne"
Washington Hotel will draw hundreds
Of winter tourists from al! parts OF the
world to the Isthmus. This hotel, like
the Tivul! nj hncon, Is run by the Gov
-rnment and everything is first class.
comparing favorably with the winter
hotels in Florida. The clearing away
of the negro quarters has been soia.
on for some time. This IS carried gu;
rapidly. the shacks being burned as
soon as they are no longer needed.
AT I.aBoca permanent quarters are
being set up for such laburers AS may
he needed in the working Of ihe locks.
They are being erected on land re
claimed by the dumping OF the spoi!
from Culebru Cut Most Of them are
family quarters. as nearly every negro
has some member of his family TO
keep house and cook his meals.
Canal Fortihcn,inns Guarded.
The canal will be heavily fortified
at each end. and the army work there
Is nearing completion. The mounting
of the powerful guns and moTtars Will
begin in the early fall. Already these
torti.ications are being carefully
guarded and no photographing is per-
m.ttrd anywhere near them. on April
a4Ih the Secretary of War issued in
;.tructions asking that Increased vigil
.ncc he exercised at these points and
at the locks. Governor Goethals at
once requested the commanding officer
of the 10th u. S. Infantry, regiment
which has been stationed on the Zone
tor the past two years. 10 take over the
guarding of the canal property. This
tina 4, r-,.frt
iuent to Gatun, one company to Pedro
Miguel. and one to Mirahores. 1t Is
The duty of these men to protect the
locks and spliways. Several times re-
ports have been circulated that an at
tempt would be made to dynamite the
locks, and on one occasion several sus-
picious characters were arrested after
"A large amount Of dynamite had been
stolen.
! Some difficulty has been experienced
with the Naos Island breakwater
which had "A tendency to bulge after
the fashion of the Cucuracha slide. but
happily this has been overcome, and a
firm foundation for the breakwater
secured These were constructed on
the same plan as the foundation for
the over-sea railway of the Florida
East Coast Railroad Company.
The lighting facilities OF the canal
have been entirely completed except
for one or two lighthouses which are
still in course of construction. The
light effects on the canal at night are
beautiful and can be seen for many
miles.
Radio Station.
Work on the three 600-foot steel
towers of the proposed Darion radio
station at CaimIto has begun and will
be completed before opening day.
Each tower is built in the form of an
equilateral triangle, $50 feet on the
side. AT each corner of the triangle
will be a footing OF concrete. The
depth of the excavation for the footing
has varied from twelve to twenty eight
feet below the surface of the ground.
the greater depth being necess.tated
by the irregular surface elevations.
The concrete base Will be rectangular