Show RAPI RAPID PROGRESS ON PANAMA CANAL I WASHINGTON Nov 21 Summarized Summarized 21 in a phrase satisfactory progress all aU along the Panama canal caa zone is the gist of the annual report of the Isthmian canal caal commission made to Secretary of War Dickinson by Colonel George Goethals Goethals Goeth- Goeth als chairman of ot the commission and chief chiet engineer in charge of the work on the canal and made ad public yesterday by the former With the work of excavation and ad of ot construction progressing favorably at all al points point along alonET the thA lne with health lne tons better beter than ever be before tore with wih a centralization arid ard consequent economy in certain parts of the work vork work and with witha a maximum of laborers since the United States began to dig the canal Colonel Goethals's report was decidedly pleasing to Secretary Dickinson The chief engin engineer eer reports however that it i was as not all smooth al sailing saing during dur dur- ing the past year slides breaks breas and foods floods hindering bindering the work to a certain extent He mentions four slides coy cov ering respectively ly 47 73 46 and co 17 acres and requiring during the year ea the removal of more than a million cubic yards of material It I was expected he that slides would occur and in the estimates provision was made for them but it now appears from cracks that tat show in the te upper surface adjacent to the faces of the cut that te sufficient allowance had Md not been made and the estimates were corrected to meet the new conditions Three Thee Bad Ba Slides Three bad breaks he reports occurred during the year year one one yeal-one one at the town of Culebra covering an area area of more than ten acres and requiring a removal of ot more than a million and a half of at cubic hal yards yards' of dirt and stone The second largest Hugest break covered ered co an area of at more than eleven acres and required a re removal re- re moval inoval of more than cubic yards while the third break aggregated about I cubic yards ars The floods foods seriously interfered with the pr progress gress of the work says Colonel Goethals referring ir in particular to that of of- the central division division- of and the Culebra cut and the one of ot December 29 overflowed over over- flowed the te dike separating the cut from the Chagres river cutting a channel through It i about feet long and one ty-one feet deen I The total am amount of material removed from slides and ad breaks breas in the central division of or the canal during the centra year ear was more than two and a halt half million cubic yards or about 15 per hat cent of the amount removed during the year from the Culebra cut the principal part of ot the central centra division par More More than cubic yards of material ma ma- wee removed from all parts of the caral canal during the tho year al of which almost were from the Culebra cut and almost from the Chagres section About cubic yards ards remain to be removed from the Cul Culebra- Culebra bra bra- bracut cut before this section of the canal is completed seton I |