THE PANAMA CANAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2389, 2 September 1886, Page 2

THE PANAMA CANAL.

Concerning the progress of the Panama Canal, the Panama-Star of May 15th., writes:—" If any man of ordidary intolligonco doubts that'the Canal will oVJft. tually be made, let him go and seo to v seven dredges of the Ameilcan,or Slaven Bros.'Company at,work'. Theu-opear-tions border on the marvellous: and it ia no wonder that Mr Bigelow, in his late report, spoke so highly of them. He said; " There are already at work on tho Isthmus machines for 'dredging and for excavation far mere powerful and effioieiit than any ever used on the Suez Cauigm anywhere else. I sawono of them-*Jsj ' New York. It was excavating at the average of 6,600 oubio yards every twentyfour hours I If one dredge can put out an avetago of 6500 cubic yards every. 24 hours, a slight mathimotical calculation will enable ua to.understoiid that the seven now at work, under favorable circumstances, oan excavate daily something over 45,000. Or, supposo one-third of that amount bo deducted for accident* and delays, there will Btill remain a Monthly total of about, 1,000,000 oubio yardß. When it ie remombeved that this Immense output is the work of this ono company, and that the whole line i? nowcbvorod by contractors, all anxious to • perform good work and earn good pay;,who will ba bold enough to say that the filial term whioh M. do IJeßaopa catuo to inaugurate last visit has hot in-reality boon commenced."