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Show . CANAL CHOKED. The latest report of the lieutenant-governor lieutenant-governor of the Panama canal is not reassuring. Both the old and the new Culebra slides continue to fill up the great waterway, and there is no telling how long the channel will be choked. There are seventy-six vessels waiting for passage, and the lieutenant-governor states that Oqtober 10 is the earliest date they can possibly start through, adding that there may be more delay. After investing half a billion dollars in the canal, it is too bad the United States has not secured a waterway free from obstruction, in order that ocean commerce may be facilitated and interest in-terest earned on the investment. There is a fine opportunity for some genius to discover a method by means of Whiflh these slides can be stopped and the canal kept open. It is one of the great engineering problems of the day. |