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Show JPXCAVATING ON I: PANAMA CANAL Tg Washington. D. C, Jan. 13. The llcalg amount of excavation on the Panama jfig canal begins to decrease monthly, q probably for the very good reason j Aijg that the steam shovels and dredges i haSfare getting down into the bottom of i JR the cut where there Is Ie3s material jjayMaud where not so many machines can ' kTSfbe operated. I A cablegram from Colonel Goethals at Panama states that during December Decem-ber last the total excavation amounted Lo 2.94G.404 cubic yards, against 3.00(5.- j 037 yards in November, although thre ! jnij-jWere two more working days In De Xgfcember anil the rainfall was less by agR nearly half an inch. .h j The amount of concrete placed was Talso less than In November, helm? cedJ 50,17(J aSaiust 1G3.271 cubic .yards. iSfl" ''The onlj' Itern of increa3e was in the R?iilllnSs of the dams, which amounted lJKto 520.G01 cubic yards in December,' l3Jfr against gf.2,175 In November |