The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-12-27
$50 VESSELS PASS
THROUGH CANAL
From August IS, 1914, to June 80, 1915
Detailed Account OF Operation and
Maintenance Given in Gov.
Cocktails Report.

Washington, ID. G., Dec. GA detailed
account of the operation and maintenance
of the Panama canal during the first II
months and half after its opening to
commerce in August, 1914, is given in the
annual report Of Governor Goethals OF
the canal zone, made public last night
Final construction work just prior to the
canals opening also is described in the
report, which embraces the fiscal year
ending June 80 last, prior to the earth
/, slide which blocked the channel.
Between Aug. Is, 1914, and June 80,
1915, $50 vessels, representing net Pan
ANA canal tonnage OF ,SS472s and cargo
tonnage of 2,l25,735 were passed through
from Atlantic to Pacific and 55S repre-
senting a Panama canal tonnage OF
| / 1853 ,307 and a cargo tonnage OF 2,S44, 057,
| from Pacific to Atlantic, making total
| of l,0SS vessels with net canal tonnage
of 3,s43, 035 and cargo tonnage OF 4,969,-
1902. During this period three minor
slides Intercepted traffic, the chan
l. mel being closed from Oct Ia to 20 and
Oct. 81 to Nov. 4, 1914, and March to
10, 1915.
Construction of the canal proper, ex-
cept for dredging excavation and con
struction of the east breakwater at Co
lon, virtually was completed prior to
this fiscal year. In the old Culebra cut,
renamed the Gaillard cut, there were re-
moved, in the process OF construction
during the year, l,960,6l7 cubic yards at
an average cost of approximately 42A
cents a yard. In maintaining the chan
removal of earth deposit
ed by slides there were taken from Gail
lard cut 4,7I0,566 cubic yards at cost
OF "a 2.3 cents a yard and from the chan
mel at the Atlantic entrance l,233,30l
cubic yards at a cost Of 10 l-6 cents
yard.
"Cucaracha Slide" the report says,
was very active from July to October,
1914, quiet during the dry season, and
active again with the beginning OF the
rainy season in April. On the west side
at Culebra the slide showed little activ-
ity through the greater part of the year,
but in June, 1915, the general movement
of the bank was noticeable, and it was
estimated that 100000 cubic yards OF
material were in motion on June 30, 1918,
on the west side. 1t is estimated that
about 100000 cubic yards will have to
be removed from the east side
Of the 1894 ,399,l49 appropriated by
Congress to June 80, last, the report
states that $l4,6s9,s73 has been spent on
fertilization; $4,000 to cover three an
nual payments to the republic of Pan |
anna; $8,440,000 for the operation of the |
civil government of the canal zone for |
the fiscal year 1916, S4,2s9, $50 for the |
operation and maintenance of the canal
to the end of the fiscal year 1915, while
stock on hand aggregates S2,225,0 900, leav-
ing SS65,990,ll6 appropriated for the ac-
tual construction of the canal and its
adjuncts.
Two million dollars of this was invest
ID in Golfers, and $6,563,067 was re-
,urned to the treasury department up to
,he close of the fiscal year 1915 as mis-
,ellaneous receipts, leaving 1857 ,436,04S
Is the net amount expended for the ca
ial, including the amount available for
work still in progress. A dry dock, two
,oaling stations and terminal piers, not
included in these figures, are yet to be
Health conditions in the canal zone,
he report says, were very good during
he year. The total death rate from
disease was reduced from l4.46 in 1914
o ll.77 in 1915. Victims of malaria, the
Principal cause of disability, were re-