Show r rJ The Isthmus < anal I PARIS December 2The official bul j letin1 of the Panama Caial company gwes a < resutne of the statement Commander i Com-mander Gorringe formerly of the I United States navy which was pub I lifched some time ago in America giving giv-ing the result of his inspection of the work on the canal up to July this year At that time onl oneseventeenth part of the actual cutting of the canal has been finished while the expenses so far i I incurred amounted to onesixth of the I estimated total outlay Commander j l the canal t G Tinge concluded that I would eventually cost 120000000 and j 1 I be completed at the latest by January j j j 1st 1890 The American contractor J i Nathaniel McKay reports 20000 natives I of the Carribee Inlands employed in j piercing the Isthmus They are mostly occupied in cutting immense I trenches through the hills which will be carried down M a level with the i I ocean When the w rk finished and ihe River Chargres has been turned I from its source the most arduous part of the undertaking will be over < I a 1 |