Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-17
THE CANAL BLOCKADE.

The tying up Of 100 ships and their cargoes at Panama
than the engineering and the sont
mental disappointment the nation this
Gus OF the slides Cuebra has illustrates
the celebrity with which the modern world accepts new
agencies that save or distance and the immediate
congestion when there has to be reyersion what
once the normal way And there are some side in
cidents with a bearing on the great war.
Nature seems to be having one more of her occasional,
laughs at interfering human presumption. After some
preliminary hints and after waiting tai the great fair
had reached ats climax of celebration of the creation
of the canal she quietly obterates that canal temper
ary by sliding 100000 cubic feet of matter into it,
She seems rebuke the engineers for figuring too finely
or TOO fast Their altering Of the old pressures has
seemingly caused the of their ditch to be thurst
up end The sides consequently to slide down
They had, Of course counted upon considerable OF
such slipping tin new and permanent equilibrium had
been attained, and they viii simply perforce keep on
digging tin the channel AGAIN secure and perhaps be
ready to repeat the performance t stability now in
definite is ultimately had But it is a rather dsconcert
ing circumstance and sure add substantially to
the s4oOOoOOOO transportation present we are making
to the rest Of the world as well as to ourselves
Bur the tangible disconcerting effect falls upon
'Hoae IoeIcldl interests lhat own the hundred ships
or the in each or are anxously awaiting arrival
Of the goods Of the bottom for return transportation
In the few months since thewaterway became available
markets and prices had largely adjusted themselves to
the new rout- possibilities. Now the shifting to The
long voyage round the Horn means in time or the trans
fer to rails means in cost an element upsettng man,
calculations Besides there is the risk Of pershabity
on such shipments Pacific coast or Hawaiian fruit
Likewise there is the necessary dsocation of plans
to send goods the Pacific coast or the Orient via the
canal Coming at the season of crop movement here
and Of increasing coal and merchandise traffic and of
general world scarcity tonnage the teup of the
hundred ships obviously considerable new con-
gestion delay and here enters new handicap on
Russias feyerish efforts to supply her great military
lack munitions and mechanism to equip and serve
her The shells and rifles and the rails engines and
cars that she has been buying lavishy here viii move
either less smoothly less cheapy.
Conversely the illwind advantage that always springs
from adversely falls here the railroads They had been
casting up the of traffic loss occasoned them by
the canal and Of them had found this to be sub
stantial Now such competition is suddenly smothered
possibly for months; and Southern Pacific for ex
ample is as large beneficiary on goods that
now diverted from the canal This is probably
only temporary largeness but it decided fup thi.
particular season acceerating new prosperity
Meanwhile it is in the national and military sense
very fortunate for that world compelling
any hurried fleet from to the other coast