Salt Lake Herald | 1879-12-09 | Page 2 | Local News

It be ems to make no difloronce to Leaaepa, the French canal builder, that Americana have no confidence in hia Panama scbemo, and do not want him to proceed with it. He eeeiia determined to go ahead, and claims to have already enough money to keep the work in progress for a few years. A corpa of engineers haa been on tbe ground for some time, and M. Leaseps, with his family, baa just sailed for Panama, expecting to strike the first pick in tbe great enterprise en-terprise on January 1st. If the Americans do not look aharp, whila they are quarreling over the question of routes the distinguished Frenchman French-man will have hia canal ao far under way that it would be a waste of time and money to atari another.