Ogden Daily Standard | 1907-12-27 | Page 6 | Broke All Records on Canal

ho anch work has ever been done before at panama washington dec 23 the excava lon on the line of the panama canal which aggregated cubic yards would have covered ten blocks to a depth of forty feet no such work has ever been done batore as col goethals has been doing on the isthmus according to statistics presented in the official canal record lust received for instance it la shown that every fifty working days tho commission is moving an amount of material equal to the pyramid ot choops which consumed tho labor of men for twenty years in the and the services of the samo number of men lor ten years in constructing ting tho road connecting the work with the quarry the commission could build the suez canal at the present rate of progress in 38 years though it took ten years tor do les saps to complete his work the famous ship canal could be excavated by the canal workers in just two months and even emperor williams magnificent kiel canal could be bius by the americans in just five years according to the latest health report from panama the isthmus has been free from yellow fever for more anan 18 months and there has been a and continued improvement in the health conditions comparing the death rate for the ear up to december 1 with that for the corresponding period in 1906 there has been a 50 per cont decrease the figures being for this year per thousand the sick rate also showed a marked improvement being 2049 lor november against 2690 for october 1907