Show THE PANAMA CANAL To make tho the Panama canal there were at the time beginning 4 cubic uh yards of earth and rock to be he at cJ for a high level Jew cnn canal Of this from 1881 to inclusive the original French company company com com- pany under tinder De Do Lesseps excavated 1 12 cubic yards The new French company from 1895 1595 to toIa May Ia 1004 1904 excavated o a cubic yards The Tho American government a s force in tho the from May Mav to May Mav four years 1003 1903 IDOS 1908 excavated cubic yards vard and anal of this the thc maior major part or cubic yards was excavated in the tho la last t twelve o months of that period Thero There remain therefore only S 2 cubic yards to excavate or less Ics s than one half of the whole |