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Show UTAH MEN FOR THE CANAL. Tile talk of Mr. "W. M. O'Brien of this city, in yesterday's Tribune, on the visit that he and Mr. "W. II. "Wattis of the Utah Construction Company paid to the Isthmus of Panama, was most interesting. in-teresting. They went there to look over the ground with a view to bidding on contracts for the excavation of the famous fa-mous Culebra cut all of it. Plainly it would be best for one concern to have the whole of that work, so that there would be no entanglement or conflict between contractors In the handling o the earth as dug out. One concern could handle It much more satisfactorily satisfacto-rily than several contractors could do It. And the Utah Construction company, being used to mountain work on a big scale, would be quite at home in that s"ort of excavation. Thccut at Culebra was the despair of French engineers. They attempted to make It too deep. The Americans will make it shallower by some twelve to fifteen feet, which will cut off almost one-third of the excavation, and they wlli compensate for this by raising the level of Lake Bohlo correspondingly. The dam for this will be one of the great engineering enterprises of the world. It and the big lock made necessary neces-sary by the higher level to bo maintained main-tained at the 'sumnfit, will constitute the triumph of American engineering is compared with the French. But the condition which Mr. O'Brien describes the canal to be In at present would indicate that the percentage of the work done Is much below what was reckoned, and it would follow that tho work left to be done is far greater tl'ian was reckoned. Whatever it Is, however, the United States is able to do it, and will do It; and that the Utah Construction Company may jiave to do with It Is certainly to be hoped. It would surely be a feather In the cap of the State to have Its citizens take a prominent part in this epoch-making event of constructing that canal. |