The Panama Canal

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 33, 6 September 1887, Page 4

The Panama Canal

Here is one of the many rumors tui rent always about- the : Panama Cau4t J It , is really , startling : — rhe^ . .periodical rumors as to the insuperable obstacles in the way of the Paniina Canar scheme aije^once; m;ne f ia cii^'M^bnaud no doubt' they wil^* be as catogoricaliy d Shied as usual by M. de'j^sseps.'* Oh: this occasion the 0.-dinary difficulties in the way-ofexcavation are augmented by a literal- Jmohutain/;< As/l the. diggers reintoetthe earth ijl -the grea.t Culebra cut the jn.ountain on jqine ; side nioves-slowly- but resistlessly toward. theid^M^uMhi^/l^ll>etp^tial/.OX-l cava>lfeWi Tcanf 'keep? the> ditohf')open< So &<Smou»ijarcthe k liUl.l^^^pPA^ taining wall could possibly hold lt. f in its piaeerand-its-eontinual sliding into the Swme^^y-^Wh^^^'pros^-gt? Thi#is'*un^* f li&S WKHu^iiAriwrioa^ 3ok-.^t^itf9*epo*ftejfti»itheifli^hor.-.i ity of one of the engineers of the;.ooß-£ panyr—There arerrumors-that a- taxthe r bf ittohe^ m6re than itS imnfefet^^is'sity^beirig tfie' ; motive,* but the mountain must first be ex-i;