The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-18
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cheaper rates to Pacific ports. Bulk
products like lumber, wool, hides
wheat and wines will get lower. freigh,
rates through the canal from the Pa
cific ports. Australia will be four
thousand miles nearer to the Atlantic
ports, thus cheapening the freight on
the wool from thar country. It will
cost about 81 00, 900 annually to oper.
ate the canal, and about twenty-five
hundred employees will be required.
Balboa A Real City.
Balboa, at the Pacific terminal will
likely become the big city Of the Canal
Zone, as many OF the employees who
have charge, of the locks will live
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 270-ton
cranes to be used in handling wrecks
or accidents in the canal or locks will
be kept at that point. A fuel station.
too, will be located at Balboa. A large
number of transients may be counted
upon as many people will leave the
ships at this point. Buyers, too, will
meet vessels there. e s
Christobal, the Atlantic terminus, is
already thriving town, and the new
Washington Hotel will draw hundreds
of winter tourists from all parts OF the
world to the Isthmus. This hotel, like
the Tivoli at Ancon, Is run by the Gov
eminent and everything is first clnss.
comparing favorably with the winter
hotels In Florida. The clearing away
of the negro quarters has been going
on for some time. This Is carried out
rapidly. the shacks being burned as
soon as they are no longer needed.
At LaBoca permanent quarters arc
being set up for such laborers as may
be needed in the working Of the locks.
They are being erected on land re-
claimed by the dumping OF the spoil
from Culebra 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 Qualifications Guarded.
The canal will be heavily fortified
ut each end. and the army work there
is nearing completion. The mounting
of the powerful guns and mortars will
begin in the early fall. Already these
fortifications are being carefully
guarded and no photographing is per-
mitted anywhere near them. on April
gath the Secretary of War issued In
structions asking that increased vigil
ence be exercised at these points and
at the locks. Governor Goethals at
once requested the commanding officer
of the 10th U, s. Infantry. a regiment
which has been stationed on the Zone
for the past two years. to take over the
guarding OF the canal property. This
officer sent two companies of the regi-
ment to Gatun. one company to Pedro
Miguel. and one to Mirahores. It is
the duty of these men to- protect the
locks and spillways. 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
q large amount Of dynamite had been.
stolen.
Some difficulty has been experienced
with the Macs Island breakwater
which had a, tendency to bulge after
the fashion Of the Cucuracha slide, but
happily this has been overcome, and a
arm foundation for the breakwater
secured. These were constructed on
the same plan as the Foundation for
the oversee 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 soo-foot steel
towers Of the proposed Darien radio
station at Caimito has begun ana WIN
be completed before opening day.
Each tower Is built in the form OF an
equilaterai triangle, $50 feet on the
side. At each corner of the. triangle
viii be footing Of concrete. The
depth OF the excavation for the FOOTING
has varied from twelve to twenty-ei xhtl
feet below the surface OF the ground,
the greater depth being necessitated
BY the irregular surface elevations
The concrete base Win Be Fectansular