| Show NO DIGGING DOWN ON THE ISTHMUS Seventeen Thousand Men Em Employed Employed in Sanitation and Track Work PROBLEM IS NOT EXCAVATION It N I of or Wu tr Secy Sec Tuft Washington Dec making public nil ull the testimony yester yesterday Ister day by the thu senate committee on ap liP appropriations liPI I In relation to the y bill the senate s has disclosed In greater detail th work on tho Isthmus than has b en given by all the of at Iho Isthmian canal ell commission or 01 other r authorized I Ito to canal affairs The Tho testimony mony dining the meeting covers COver 88 printed devoted almost wholly ly Iy to the examination of oC Secy Sec of at Will War Taft I II Shouts chairman of ot tha tho commission J II HI h hOil op Oil secretary secreta and D W Hoss general gell purchasing officer It during durin the testimony of oC Secretary Toft R 1111 Mr lions Hoss that 8 per cent of ot the materials mil inn chatted by the com wert shipped d from the United of the 2 per Iel c nt of or foreign nearly the entire amount was wall on the Isthmus H It wa IaK tell that are employed on the Isthmus In canal work mirk hut but that none of or the is isnow now engaged 1 In excavating The rho work of digging the canul Willi UH stopped wh n Mr went lent to le the Isthmus In July Jill as 1111 chief engineer Mi lot r Taft nl that of tho men wele eio em Im emPloyed In the sanitary department and In truck track work lork construction of or buildings In machine work put putting ting together the equipment In getting ready rell for tor tho work of oC excavating Continuing Mr Ir Taft wild Mr 11 Stevens Stevena I think Mr III with him that former Chief l Wallace e mud a mis mistake take In expending what he did expend for tor excavation work 1011 In the Culebra cut It was 1415 not done for tor tho put pose of ot although It did accomplish to the extent to which there therl was excavation work which may mn not nol have hwe lo to be done Ion Hut Hilt It was lone done for COI tho purpose of at making sll matCH IB au to the tho cost Mr II thinks that the material which was was deposited at places from which It Mill 1111 have hae to be hI removed that estimates e bated Japell Ilon those experiments therefore nr estimates bared upon what do not to tho actual work lorl to bo ho done doneSo doneSe So Se It really wan not good oo sam sample sampie pie work 1 asked Senator Hale 11 a Il No sir Fh replied Mr II r raft Of OC course cours the great grent problem there Is not excavation The Thu great Is transportation till the dl of or tho th waste Dirt I taken from Culebra cut to bo bl hauled by hy tall ml from four to 15 Mr r then Mid ot or the tho work lork done by Mr Wallace He selected tho easy cas ork lork nt ot the top lOll of oC the cut he had gravity hauls lie tested nt tho nearest place ho he could and misled himself other people I ollie by h taking the tho cost per yard thus arriving at nt during the most favorable circumstances s as II being heln tho unit cost ost at which he could do the tho en ell tire tiro work For that reason r aon his work practically wasted It n stated by Mr that un dor dI Wallaces lI direction dirt wall mold during the tho dry lien Ion at a acost 11 cost of oC 43 cents per 1 11 cubic yard artl hut but that the cost was las Increased to 11 50 a 11 yard during tho wet season lenOIl Members embers of the committee having surprise nt the gront gf nt differ difference ence Mr III There Th re could coull not have hn 1 ben been so po much difference If Wallace had properly proper bal his hll trucks to 0 that when the sea Iea season son lion came on hh his cars would not get getoff ort off tho track so much |
