| Show COLI COL GOETHALS BEfORE Tells of Difficulties Attending A tho Building of the Panama Canal MATERIAL IN MOTION IS ONE Devlin to Make lre diction iw us to III It Work Will hu ha Completed ni as n Always Washington n Jan 17 chairman and duct chief r of at tho th canal commission tho that senate committee e on todar todal that a 11 great deal lien I of or at ot attention hail had been paid to tho the deep for formations formation formations mation nt lit tho time dam and nn other points on the canal where locks oro ittu to be lie located By a l series of drill holes and test pita ph of the iI that t the tho underlying material was of ot sufficient t strength to hold tho foun foundations foundations for fOl tho locks hocks In cut the chairman sold said a 11 great teal deal closer Inspection was necessary ns as n the tho I foundation sandstones at that were varied In nature and amid nt at some fomo points very soft sand land underlies the tho hard liard material It 11 hOB has been beau determined however paid MIll the tho witness s that tho thu overlying sandstone Is of ample strength to up hold Hiu thu lock Structures Speaking of the In the tho ap up appropriation that hull hind ben bemm Incurred by bytho tho ho canal commission In expenditure on the canal since last Coi Cot said subtracting surplus l moneys that had accrued tram front curtain funds this thill amounted now zion to tu lIe He however requested n a deficiency appropriation of ot to cover ceci all nil estimates A change in lit tho thio route ot or certain portions of or time the Pan lan Panama ama railroad ho said Hald was responsible for tor u IL putt pait of oC the deficiency Col Co Goethals gave tho the estimates for necessary appropriation for or time the vari various van arl arlous ous ens branches brunches of oC tho time canal work for forthe forthe the tho ensuing year as liS follows follow Engineering Including the time Washington office sanita sanitation lion tion I of or canal anal zono government Panama railroad IO making a R total of o 3 Col Goethals expressed Ills his opinion that should Congress provide a L lump sum of annually It would be sufficient to maintain the health of ot the tho Isthmus providing extra l expense could bo he Incurred In emergency Through questions put to 10 Col Goo Coo the time fact was brought out that the commission does not propose to ic re receive dictation from f om cement firms s when w cn the concrete world work on time the mocKs lOCKS is cation up next January If It tho tha firms who propose to furnish the cement put their prices too high we 8 will whit make It ourselves Wo Vo dont dout to enter the tho manufacturing fleM for tot It t adds to our troubles and wo we have havo troubles enough added Col Gou An Arm alleged newspaper demanding that dirt fly In the Uma can canal canal al at Cot Cal said had caused much needless excavating and ond hoay dumping or of the canal before he be became came connected with the project Dumped dirt In many litany Instances hail had to be bo removed d Senator asked u If It time the raise maine In hit wages at nt the time In Instigation ot the tho chairman was not due duet ti tf t tho time domand of pf the newspapers to have lly lii 1 No Nn pit answered Col These wages were raised In order Ordem 01 lI to keep good workmen on the tho Isthmus Col Goethals was sas loath to oven evon haz hazard lma art and ard a guess a tul to the probable of ot completion of or tho the canal but said It was generally supposed It would take six years longer loner Time The difficulties wn VI nr are liable to en encounter encounter counter are ore unknown and uncertain he lie said Wo ve have hove had two or three ill and are likely to encounter more re In one KO we 0 had cubic yards of o material In motion and traveling nt at time the rate of a 0 foot font an hour It required night and day work to save our equipment Thus It Is al eel always alWo ways Wo the Ule unexpected cJ that happens in inthis Inthis inthis this work |
