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Show Serious Problem is Now Facing the Engineers on the Canal New York, Jan. 10. Congressman - Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma, is hack from Panama, after a week spent in inspecting the cannl route. Mr. Ferris Fer-ris says that the landslides into he Culebra cut are furnishing the engineers engi-neers a problem of which the only solution seem tho steam shovels "The movement of the land into the Culebra cut is noticeable for many yards away from tho big ditch," he said. "It is Impossible to build a restraining wall, I am told, and Col. Goethals admitted that tho only method me-thod which can be followed at that point is to continue to remoc the landslides from the cut until the slant of the banks is sufficient to stop the slides. Col. Goethals Is certainly making tho dirt fly." oo |