A Trip to Panama the Narrative of a Tour of Observation Through the Canal Zone
A Trip to Panama the Narrative of a Tour of Observation Through the Canal Zone
Walter B Walter Barlow Stevens
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Several acres of French locomotives parked at Empire are all but hidden by the tropical plants along the tracks. At Bas Obispo the members of the Clubs were shown how the lake made by the Gatun Dam would narrow to a width of 500 feet as the Canal route enters the more mountainous part of the Canal Zone. Where the party took the observation cars they found that the bottom of the Canal work was only seventy-four feet above sea level. The French had left off digging at the point where they reached... 100 feet above sea level. The work of the Americans represented the lowering of the bottom from the 100 feet level to the seventy-four feet level. The excavation will go down thirty-four feet more to give a depth of forty-five feet of water when the dam is built and the lake filled. Here the Canal will have a width of 500 feet at the bottom for a distance of one and one-half miles, then narrowing to 300 feet for a distance of four miles. As the observation cars moved slowly into the Cut and the walls rose higher and higher, the members of the Clubs expressed no surprise that the plans called for the narrowing of the channel.
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