Show The English Channel Tunnel London 17Sir Edward Watkins chairman of the Southeastern Railway Company informed a meeting of that company that two experimental shafts for the proposed Channel tunnel had been sunk on the English side and two on the French side and that from one shaft on the English side galleries 800 or 900 yards long and seven feet in diameter had been finished The progress during the last week had been sixtyseven yards Fiftysix is equal to two miies yearly They have thus solved the question of the rate of progress for an experimental gallery and ascertained that the lower strata is impermeable to water The French experiments realized exactly the same result They had arrived he iBid at an understanding with the French tunnel committee that on each side of the Channel a further heading of a mile should be driven When these headings are finished which certainly ought to be in six months onetenth of the question would have been dealt witb and a fur ther treaty would then probably be proposed pro-posed under which each would accomplish accom-plish the remaining nine miles on its side in view of meeting in mid Channel A sevenfoot gallery ought on this system to be completed in five years |