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Show MAGNITUDE OF CANAL. i Some Startling Figures Submitted by Engineers in Charge. Washington. The engineers on tho Panama canal nro dealing in vast figures fig-ures theso days, and tho Canal Record Just received convoys in :i graphic manner nn Idea of tho magnitude oi tho work to bo dono upon tho locks oi tho canal. It la stated, for Instance, thnt tho amount of concrete to be used In building theso locks would sufllco to construct olght-room city houses of tho generous ulzo of 30x30 feet, with two stories nnd basement and with concrete (loom nnd roof, to tho number of 22,842. Allowing ench of theso houses a seventy-flvo foot lot, they would mnko a continuous street from Now York to Philadelphia, with enough hoiiBca left over to mnko a row on ono sldo of tho street from Philadelphia to Washington. The houses would furnish suburban homes fof 120,000 people, or, according to city, stnndnrds mado, havo n population popula-tion equal to that of tho city of Minneapolis. |