Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-26 | Page 6 | The Mighty Work

THE MIGHTY WORK. Reports from the Panama Canal excavation ex-cavation show increasing effectiveness. On Saturday, March l.Uh, tho amount of material excavated in tho central division ' amounted to 80,341 cubic yards; great work for a single daj'. There remains along tho Chagrcs river, between Gntun and Culebra, 600,000 cubic yards to bo completed, and it is expected that, by tho middlo of next month, all the work in tho central -division, which can now bo done, will have been completed. Wo find in tho April number of Popular Pop-ular Mechanics a comparison of the amount of tho excavation from the Panama Canal, with tho amount of material ma-terial contained in tho great pyramids of Egypt. The drawing shows the three pyramids to bo mere mounds in comparison com-parison with tho huge bulk of tho ma-.terial ma-.terial taken out to complete tho canal. The total oxcavation amounts to 214, UG6,504 cubic yards. This would make a pyramid nearly two and a half times as high as tho great, pyramid of Cheops, which towers upward 405 feet. Tho Panama pyramid would bo 1150 foot high, and would contain about fourteen timos as much material in volump as tho great Ohoopa .pyramid contains. The nrca coverod by tho Cheops pyramid pyra-mid is a little more than thirteen acres. Tho Panama pj-rnmid would oxtend over nearly soventy-fivo acres, or, comparing com-paring it with New York City -blocks, averaging GOO feet, tho Panama pyramid pyra-mid would cover an area of nino city blocks, with a height nearly twice that of tho lower of tho Singer building in Now York. Tho comparisons and illustrations are very striking, nnd thoy testify in a wondorful manner to the immensity of tho great work doing and done at tho Panama Canal.