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Show mui-b worse than they arc. For instance, in-stance, some convulsion of nature might I result in the absolute ruin of the water- t way. ANOTHER SLIDE. Another serious sliile in the Panama v eaoal near Gold Hill has stopped traffic throuph the peat waterway for at least ten davs. Fortunately the earth move- I ment stopped before the channel was entirely filled, although at one point there is only seven feet of water in the canal. There is no way of stopping these earth slides and they will continue to occur for a long time to come, according ac-cording to the view of Major General . Goethals. This being so, nothing remains re-mains for the government to do but I to dredge out the channel and wait for the next movement, of the uneasy old mountain which has already cost so much money and impeded navigation on - occasions too numerous to mention. There probably will be an end to the slides sometime. If not in this generation, genera-tion, then in the next. So long as big vessels escape being struck in the canal . when these slides occur perhaps we should be thankful. Matters might be |