The Panama Canal.

Manawatu Herald, 10 January 1895, Page 2

The Panama Canal.

c Work on the Panama CaiiaJ was - resumed at the commencement of : ' i- October with picks and spades at 11 Culebras Hill (says our Paris corresit pondent), which is eleven miles frbm it the Pacific Ocean and thirty-aix from y the Atlantic. '• " '• '"'■ d Twelve hundred men are required, }. and their wages wilr bV-'fronf one y dollar to fcwo dollars a day.' Resume

>__■*■________«■«»______ . I _■_-_■_--_ tion of work on fche canal has caused " "flrgteatf commotion everywhere in Udw&bijianp its regions. The ftfama Canal was inaugu tated ln !|879, and work was begun in 1881 and ceased in 1880, with the canal not half- finished. French engineers estimated that $150,000,000 would be necessary to fijlish the canal, the total cost of wnich up to this time has been $260,892,600. Of this great sum sevens-eights- is said to be a dead loss. The total length of the canal as proposed was 46£ miles, width 127 feefc oh the surface, and 72 feefc on the bottom, with a depth of 80 feet. When work was stopped in March, 1880, 17,085,200,000 cubic feet of earth had been removed, leaving a balance of almost as much more.