Show CHANGE age IN THE PANAMA VA CANAL NAL the pro proposal made by M 1 I delesseps DeLesa DeLes epa in his bis letter to premiers premier 1 seTs w will 11 not f fill ail to interest those these who have followed he progress ot his scheme tor for an n inter oceanic canal at panama after N an expenditure of nearly dearly three times the sum originally original lv estimated by him as sufficient to build a surf surface ace level canal he now asks the french goft government to authorize him im to rase raise additional dit ional by bya a public lottery to e enable him to construct a lifting lock canal holding ho alding out ont the hope ho p e that eventually the original tide level scheme will he realized it now rests with the gov ernnie eminent nt lk 1 he says to insure definitely the execution of our pro gramme by authorizing the company compa to issue lottery ter y obligations I 1 I 1 t would seem from this that unless people sub subscribe cribe a sum which with what his has seen been expended will wil raise the cost of the canal to the extraordinary total of nearly the prole cV ofa a canal at panama must be abandoned up to td the present M de lesseps has strongly opposed the use of fitting locks alons along the line of the proposed canal and stoutly denied that such a plan was afoot though I 1 fully a twelvemonth ago lieutenant kimball of our navy on his return from the isthmus declared it wits was then under serious consideration by y the ca canals nalls engineers the present change in plan seems to have been induced oy the report of skillfully skill full engineers sent to the by the department of ponts fonts et who after a cageful examination of the formidable culebra sect iOB where the brozi iron tack backbone bone of the cordillera crosses the line with an elevation of nearly three hundred feet s decided as the scheme of acuter a cut or a tunnel lor for ships they f that because ot of the extra ordin ary rv rainfall and co consequent i nse quent floods such a cut even if made could not be kept free from turbulent devast devastating Ming caters in tact fact that it would but become a huge reservoir into which the mountainous region in its vicinity would pour the starting whence the sections of canal on either side would be fiercely beset they that lifting locks be built on either side this elevation and ships in transit be taken aver instead of through its flinty sides this serves to ma mate the panama scheme similar simil aar to bilat anat proposed at nic nicaragua a r 96 gu as b but 11 t as t this hisa latter ater i is 8 in much UP h farther morth northwestward westward and consequently offers a shorter voyage over the great commercial lanes it is easily seen that it could not co compete with it even leaving aside the probable difference in cost of construction which doubt doubtless lem woud be greatly in favor of nicaragua gilt mhd route of the proposed ship railway at tehuantepec is hundreds hund bund refis reds of miles north and east even of nicaragua mid and aside from other advantages which it possesses would oe e vas ly more advantageous to commerce considered f from rein a geographical standpoint stand boint american |