NOVEMBER 23, 1905
PAGE 13
XZhs Nebraska. Indopondonft
CANAL AT SEA LEVEL
BOARD OF CONSULTING ENGIN
EERS REACH A DECISION
It Will Require Fifteen Years to Finish
the Work, But in the End Greater
Good Will be Achieved for all Concerned
Washington, Nov. 21. The board of
consulting engineers of the isthmian
canal commission have decided to
substitute Brussels for Paris as the
meeting place of the foreign mem
bers next January. The reason for
this decision is that Brussels is more
conveniently situated for several of
the .members. The American en
gineer who will go to Brussels with
the documents to be signed has not
yet been chosen. A board of three
members with General Davis as their
head will make a rough final draft of
the report which will have to be
worked over, and it is expected it will
be ready for publication about Decem
ber 31. '
Necessary Changes
The sea level canal will have a
width at the bottom of 150 feet, ex
cept in the Culebra cut, where the
width will be 200 feet. The greater
width in the Culebra cut is necessary
to allow two ships to pass each other
safely between the high banks of the
canal, which will be formed by the
very deep excavation. The plan as
adopted by the board would make
Limon bay one of the greatest har
bors in the world. Almost through
the middle of the bay a breakwater
will be built and a short breakwater
will be built from San Cristobal,
which is American territory, thereby
leaving Colon, which belongs to the
republic of Panama, outside of the
American canal works. Under the
plan as adopted by the board- San
Cristobal is expected to become the
chief city on the. Atlantic side of the
canal, and the promonotory, on which
arises the statue of Columbus, will
be covered with official buildings,
docks, coaling stations and all works
necessary for an important harbor.
The canal constructed by the French
began at San Cristobal. It is now pro
posed by the board to build a short
direct canal from Mindi to Limon
bay, thereby making the distance
shorter by a few hundred yards and
also facilitating navigation and making
it possible for ships to sail into the
canal without having to make any dif
ficult turns. The breakwaters neces
sary for the formation of this har
bor of San Cristobal will be an item
of great expense. They were the
subject of lengthy discussions in the
meetings of the board. They would
have been necessary, however, in case
a lock canal had been chosen.
On the Pacific Side
On the Pacific side at Panama the
plans as adopted yesterday are also
different from those of the French
Canal company. The French canal
ends at Laboca, and it was found to
be one of the difficulties, as the Rio
Grande with Its many branches crosses
the canal and iu the rainy season in
undates it and does great nmage to
the works already constructed by the
French. Therefore It was decided the
canal should bo built nearer to the
city of Panama and should run be
tween two hills, one called Sosa, and
tho other the well known Ancon. An
con is the hicher of the two. On It
tho American hospltula are built and
It Is ono of the most healthful places
or, the Isthmus. At thh place the one
lock, necessitated through tho differ
ence In the tides of the Atlantic and
Puclflc, will bo built. This lock, how
ever, will not retard tho progress of
xhlp through tho canal. In tho first
place, ships coming from tho Pacific
will have to stop some time any way
to be visited by health officers and by
civilian authorities and furthermore
during a large part of the day this
lock will be entirely open as the levels
of both oceans will be equally high.
At the Panama side no plans have as
yet been made for breakwaters.
Better Than Lock Canal
The plans for constructing a lock
canal at .thirty feet altitude were
never discussed and from the begin
ning the board was divided into two
groups of eight and five members, one
In favor of a sea level plan and the
other in favor of a lock canal. A
compromise plan was never brought
up at any time. It can be authorita
tively reiterated that none of the for
eign delegates to the board came here
with specific instructions from their
governments. The members of the
board came here at the bidding of
the United States and their govern
ments gave them a long leave of ab
sence so that they might give their
services to this country, sending them
without any instructions whatever.
They' will leave Washington by next
Saturday and stay a few days in New
York before leaving for Europe.
On Tuesday night next, General Da
vis, chairman of the board of con
sulting engineers, will entertain the
foreign delegates at a farewell dinner
at his home.
Worth the Increased Cost
The cost of the sea level canal Is
estimated by the engineers at about
$230,000,000. Although this amount
seems much larger than the amount
necessary for the construction of the
lock canal, it is claimed by the advo
cates o fthe sea level plan to be in
reality only comparatively slightly
higher. It was pointed out in the
meetings of the board that a lock ca
nal would necessitate between $30,
000,000 and $40,000,000 as payment for
the private grounds and the land be
longing to the republic of Panama,
which would be inundated by the con
struction , of the. lock system. This
item, in the view' of the majority of
the board, is entirely done away with
by the adoption of the sea level canal.
As for the time it will take to con
struct the sea level canal, several
members of the board today expressed
the opinion that the construction of
the sea level canal will not in reality
take so very much more time than
that of the lock canal, and that if
no unexpected difficulties are met with
it should not require more than two
or three years additional. The major
ity of the engineers take the position
that the building of the sea level ca
nal should not take more than fifteen
years.
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