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---------------------------- 7 20851 Culehra Cut, Looking North-Deepest Excavation Along the Panama Canal From New York, our starting point, to earth. One hundred and five monster the Isthmus of Panama is a long journey. .steam shovels were at work. The com- When we reach, the southern point of missary department received 350,000 Ibs. Florida we .are but half way and our des- of beef, muttn and veal from Chicago tination is exactly south of us. .On en- every month of the year. The department of sanitation has tering the canal, as Wee are. promised we tearing the canal, as we'are promised we cleared the zone of yellow fever, and ha may do on New Year's Day 1915, if not made of Panama, whose bad past record before, We should still sail due south for. is notorious, a safer place to live than one-fourth Of its length and then to the many of our cities at home. southeast for the remaining three. f Culebra Mountain, 333 feet high, near fourths. The "Canal Zone". is a strip the Pacific end of the canal offered the forty-five miles long and ten miles wide greatest ba-rrier to the canal. This cut across the isthmus lying either side of is nine miles long and here steam shovels the canal. It is governed by the United', follow the .ear-splitting explosions of States. In this zone are 38,000 govern- .dynamite, and behind them come dozens' ment employees under the management of. compressed air drills in preparation of our regular army. engineers. During for a new blast. the dry season: of.1908, which corresponds Skirting the northern shore of South. to our cold months, they took out over America we reach La Guayra, in Ven- S two and one-third million tor.s of rock and ezuela. (.p. u ie. -Y v Kusvrh,s V"L w Co' paIsy. Bh _____ |
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