Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-01-28 | Page 5 | Heavy Seas Aiding Panama Canal Work

HEAVY SEAS AIDING PANAMA CANAL WORK WASHINGTON, Jan. I8.-lnted of being di&coursged by the heavy sens that are pounding the Atlantic approsch ta the Panama canal, the engineers en-gineers nsdes Col. George W. Coethala have harnessed tha tides and are sinking sink-ing them aid ia advancing the work, according to advioes from tha canal zone todar. lbs sea is assisting materially ma-terially in shapiug up ths giant breakwater break-water that will guard the Atlantis entrance en-trance to the canal by heating the seaward sea-ward slope of the trcstlework into the angles desired by tha esgiseers. The trestles, extending 11.700 feet irom the shore, are now completed end the work ef tiling them with heavy rock is proceeding rapidly.