Deseret Evening News | 1901-05-04 | Page 23 | A Twenty Million Dollar HarBor for Gibraltar

A TWENTY MILLION DOLLAR HARBOR FOR TOR GIBRALTAR v M MC C a 1 A ti rd b 8 ti N Neo eo a f L r rt r r t e v V f i t i r f A ii j ra a d y i 1 w 1 E K KIt 1 MI w 5 r t tr i h kv I It r rIt ad i l S z It has cost co t Great Grent Britain n a pretty prett penny venn to retain the great rock of at 01 Ol seized by her In 1701 and und ever eer sine since kept In possession by b strong gar car garrisons garrisons and expensive armaments Spain looks looka upon Its continued retention by bythe bythe bythe the British as a perpetual menace to her adjacent coast cout Works have hove been car carried carrIed ried forward for tor nearly OO 00 years yearn until t Gibraltar lima has become well s s ell nigh night Im Impregnable p pregnable I The latest Improvement Is I the tho building adjacent to t the town at lit tho the foot toot of ot the rock roele of ot nn an artificial harbor which will wll cost at least But Hilt now tint Hint the great work is well under way the Duke and Duchess of at Cornwall having recently superintended the laying of ot a stone stolle It has hils been covered that the harbor will bo be Jo wholly ut at the mercy of ot guns runs on Spanish ter territory nod and hence altogether useless unless some sumo way la may ma be he found out of ot the difficulty eay say by annexing Spain or acquiring control of at Morocco