Deseret Evening News | 1909-01-20 | Page 9 | Americans Making Dirt Fly at Panama

AMERICANS MAKING DIRT FLY AT PANAMA la Jan are truly making the dIrt ft Itt In tit the work of digging the PanamA canal during 1 1910 more titan than of the total tota amount alint ot of material taken out mince nee our took hold ot of tM the work was removed average ot of ox OJ during the last lut y year r was waa nub Manually the same during the rainy on Mn during the dry 41 MAllon show lag that the hevy rains nUn no longer are area R a obstacle Another was waa the reductIon ot of th the average cost per cubic yard ya for excavation ot of 11 to 48 46 cents l or about 16 15 per vel soot MIlt this KO rn nt took up the work from Ma Ia 4 HI 1904 to tb ot of cubic yards yard have been en ox ex ot of which yards yard wore tak taken out during lh MI D By the French cubIc yrda were vera excavated From the appropriations for canal construction the expenditures expenditure from May 11 4 1104 to Oct Get 1 UM 03 wore ware 5 13 if f this tbt amount IO wan l b by the ot of con construction and engineering