Show PANAMA CANAL A FAILURE the panama canal project must bo given up as not feasible and the nicaragua route selected according to the judgment of a number of the en ginee iTs it is hinted that chief engineer wallace resigned because ha found the undertaking to be beyond human effort J D yeomans a member of the interstate commerce commission for ten years openly states he does not consider the digging of the ditch as possible with an expenditure of nearly a billion dollars and he explains why the task Is herculean he says the panama canal is the biggest of lae age I 1 have ao hesitancy in saying that in my opinion there will never be a canal built there no important american engineer who was not paid for it ever hazarded the opinion that there would be a canal there the last monthly report of the work done that it will take ears to finish it the weeds grow in one end fauer than they carry the dirt flint of the other no engineer has ever found a rock or caay bed in that celebrated culebra ut abere the united states has done the of its work there has been a cut of feet there and thirty inches of rain falls in thirty hours down those banks does anyone suppose that the alluvial soil will not wash down n there to make a mud canal too thack for a government redge boat to keep afloat in do you suppose congress will go on putting up money for gravestones and quinine down there I 1 am glad I 1 am not in it everybody down there facts to do wallace did or what the boss of the whole works is doing live in new york aad run it by proxy continuing the interview mr yeo maha asserts that the nicaragua rolae was feasible and could have been built for in tour years time but this was too much like s binal hence the great influences behind the present transcontinental transportation business suddenly ceased opposing the canal project and pushed the over to panama the men who run our big railroads know what panama is |