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Show THECANAL Seven Miles of Deep Waterway to the Gatun Locks Washington, Sept 8 Tho Panama canal has just been extended to Its full width and about half of Its com-plcto com-plcto dopth at the Atlantic entrance Here the bottom of the waterway will be 500 feet wide and the depth will be 41 feet. From deep wator Inland," as far as the old French canal, about 5 1-2 miles, the entrance has been widened to the required 500 foot and a depth of at least twenty feet has' been reached over this distance. A flc of dredges Js now clawing away at 'the jQest of rocks to excavato the, -YemaIfllhg"rrcetr'Trrf?"itIlh'of-500' feet and depth of 41 feet ultimately will extend from doep water to the Gatun lockB, a distance of seven miles. Tho minimum width of tho canal will bo 300 feet in Culebra cut and the maximum width 1,000 feet In Gatun lako. |