Show NKUUAGUAN CANAL Engineers Make a Report of What They Found Chicago June 16A dispatch to the I TimesHerald from Washington referring re-ferring to the work of the commission I appointed to inspect the route and preliminary work on the Nicaraguan I canal says the engineers reached I Greytown the eastern terminus of the canal on May 13 and began an examination ex-amination of the property and improvements im-provements of the canal company at that port One of the most Important of these is a breakwater 1200 feet long which extends out into the sea The construction of this was begun In December De-cember 1S39 with the result as predicted pre-dicted by engineers of tncreasin the depth of water in the bay so that the depth on the bar is twelve feet at the present time Notwithstanding the repeated re-peated efforts of the engineers to prevent pre-vent the ravages of the teredo on the timbers of this breakwater the cora mlFsIoneis find that the wood was badly eaten That portion of the canal already built extending west from Greytown toward the San Juan river was found in splendid condition The embankments on each side have stood the effects of the weather re I markably well and show no serious I effects from the rainfall The hospitals hos-pitals and other buildings were found in a good state of preservation Tne railroad which the canal company has I built along the route of the canal for the transportation of material and men has already been thoroughly inspected in-spected and found In good condition The crumbling of the arth from the cliffs and the washings from the surface sur-face drainage has not been as disastrous dis-astrous as expected and it is said this objection so often urged against the feasibility of the canal ha fallen flat While the canal passes through a very wet region where the annual precipitation precipi-tation Is nearly twentyfive inches the effects of the movement of such an enormous quantity of water have not been bad and give no indication that the sides of the canal will be washed down in a few years an objection that has so often been urged agajai the project About two weeks ago the canal S commissioner com-missioner moved on from Greytown to Lake Nicaragua and after visiting Granada the principal lake city and Managua the capital passed from Nicaragua to the Pacific along the route of the canal a distance of about fourteen miles This section of the route offers no obstacles to the ofers construction con-struction whatever and will simply be I a matter of excavation S |