New Britain herald., 1924-08-22
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 America, Australasia, and the Tar East, From there also, come at the
 rate Of more than l0o.a tons ia one year, ammonia, cotton, sulphur, ee- ment, coal and coke, metals, ores and paper
 Tn United states the great argu- ment for Inc Panama Canal, atieE its necessity for defense, was its ad- vantage tA epaslwise traffic, Ten years show that the 'iiie Ditch fulr fils these expectations, fwo'lhlrds Of easih0und tonnage from all sources Is e0astNise traffic, or the tonnage originating in west coast states, ninety pef erst is consigned 10 east coast ports, Half af the shin- menta frem the industrial east tetal- ing one-thrd Of all westhaund traffic is eostal traffic, California sends millions of barrels of oil east via the canal, Much of her fruit in cold storage moves this way and from the northern part or the coast comes the famous salmon, Lumber is q com modiIy of rapidly increasing imper- tanee in canal business, the east coast exchanging its particular types of wood for the west coasts native trees. Wheat from western Canada instead of flowing to Europe by the lakes and rivers of the St, Lawrence system, goes to Vancouver now and is shipped to England via Colon.
 "All the odors, scents and smells rising from a crowded far east port can not match those al Panama. Tankors with, blood from South America, oamphor from Japan, al- garobilla from Andes forests. garlic, hair. cassia and whale oils from the far cast, iodine from Chile. perfume from France, onions from California. peanuts and tea from China, rubber from Singapore, corpa from the South Seas, and pungent ammonia from Baltimore. all mix at Panama. But probably no port in Araby dis? sipates its stenches and its scents in sanitary oxygen and antiseptic sum shine as Panama does The Canal Zone, from Panama City on the Pacific to Cristobal and Colon on the Carribean, is as spotless and we'll swept as a Dutch kitchen.
 Tn ten years more than 25,ooo ships have transited the canal. These ships paid for this privilege $a7,s02,- 900; sum equal to more than one fourth the total construction cost. An average Of 14 vessels a day now passes through the canal and each day United States collects about SG5,o00 tolls. That the tendency of trade is to bring raw products east and send manufactured products back is shown in part by the fact that in the decade the tonnage from the Pacific to the Atlantic exceeded that going in the other direction by more than 2O,00Q,000.
 "The service of the canals early apprenticeship to Mars, that or handling precious nitrates from Chile to make powder for the Allies, is still an important duty. Nitrates are the most important product received by the canal from all west coast South America. During the war, it is said, chain of battleships guarded the nitrate route from Chile to Lon- don constantly. Today the Panama Canal has beaten it's swords into plowshares for the nitrates it carried for cannon now serve Loyalty in the farmers fields