Show A 1 RIVAL PANA PANAMA fA CANAL ROUTE fA A glance at the map of of South America America will show that the 1 r river er runs nearl nearl- south and empties into the gulf of Darien On the other side OH oi the thc Andes or we wc believe the mountains there are e called Cordilleras there is a little river called the tho San Juan th the source of which is north of the sq source of the and they flow so nearly on a level that a Or French monk aused paused a canal be dug from one to the other some hundred years ears ago and small boats plied through that canal anal on I both rivers If Ir we remember correctly the miles from the tho gulf of Darien Dariell is an immense riv river r very ery wide and some seventy feet deep Before the Panama canal was begun the Salt SaltI I Lkc kc Tribune begged the government to investigate invest invest- g gate that route ond see seQ if jf a ship canal anal could I not QC be c constructed ver very much cheaper than the he Panama j I I I canal ever cOl could d be and pointed out that the Panama Pan Pan- ama ma cana canal even if made possible by money and w w-rk w rk would show such a slaughter of human life that the world would recoil before it while the topography of the country made the cutting c ci cl n a canal there almost impossible or at least made the le keeping of a canal in navigable form almost imp im- im I p That was before the mo mosquito the sting or OJ which causes causes' Panama fever was discovered The discovery 0 02 oZ that insect and its eradication has II fl eed the isthmus from from the danger of Panama fever tnt tut the difficulties of bf constructing the time canal remain the F same ame Now it seems that a Chilean engineer has be bc hen in n nover over the river dyer route made his surveys s sand and maps and has presented such k h a showing that hat British Brit Brit- ish idl and German capitalists arc are cager eager to supply the to build a rival canal Ever Everything thing was allright all allright allright right until an application for a right of way was made to the Colombian government After due consideration that government decided not to grant any such right of way until the boundary between Panama and Colombia Colomb l can tan be definitely established an and the engineer has given up his project He lIe must have made a showing that was convincing convincing convincing con con- or he would not have been promised the money and the fact that such a survey has met the acceptance of English and German Germa capitalists i is h a pretty prett good proof that the building of a ship canal there is possible and possibly it would be money in the pockets pockets' of our government to even now nov r nO cb change its route for that one Tho The western ter nh ls r ul l be le heI I m ill I a 3 port a couple of hundred miles south of Panama and would be that much Farther for ships to sail from New York and New Orleans to San Francisco but if the canal could I b be br built the tile west terminal would be outside of the the calm belt which which makes it impossible sometimes for fora forI I a H sail ship to get out of Panama harbor for sixty days There Thera is still another good route for a can canal hat i is a few miles south of f the Panama route which would h be le a perfect one through rock most c c. c the a with a n magnificent harbor at either terminal ter ter- minal minaI the only trouble being that for three miles mileson on the Atlantic side the side the canal would have haye to be a fennel But tunnels i in these modern days das are arc not serious things as is shown in New York City where a third or fourth subway route is being tunneled und under tinder r New York City under its tall houses and the big river where the ships from th the old world have haye their heir piers |