Show HAS A MISTAKE BEEN MADE The New York Chamber of Commerce sent J F Sorzano a dis distinguished dist t engineer to investigate the Panama Canal His report the locks and in favor of a as one of a committee is in op opposition to sealevel canal Summing up his observations he says the thc operating charges on the present form of canal will exceed those of a sealevel canal by a year and this is his reasoning The extra cost is due to the additional e expenditures occasioned by the twelve locks and the corresponding cost of their maintenance repairs and renewals the serVice on the lake and between the islands formed by it the extra cost of skillful crews needed for forthe forthe the operation repairs and maintenance of tugs buoys lighthouses s etc and the sinking fund necessary to replace every few years the enormous mass of movable metal work and expensive appliances to tobe tobe be used only in the lock canal I IAn I IAn An idea of the importance of these items will be formed if it itis itis is known that the steel gates above for the twelve locks will weigh more than tons the total metal work over tons the constructive work to be maintained repaired and renewed will cost over The fresh water shore line to be policed cleaned and guarded on Lake Gatun only is riles miles long for the lock canal and only fifty miles in the sealevel canal The policing cleaning and maintaining in sanitary condition of said miles of lake shores will exceed considerably the total of all the expenses of the sealevel canal The sealevel waterway will have absolutely no metal work of any kind whatsoever It will be a plain ditch at tide water with no powerful machinery nor expensive appliances of any kind to be re repaired repaired paired and maintained it will call for no annual sinking fund al allowance lowance to make up for their inevitable rapid deterioration under the tropical climate It will require no special crews of careful men to handle vessels lIin in and out of locks nor the cor corresponding corresponding responding expenses for their intelligent management It will have no polygonal lake navigation with its corresponding array of lighthouses range lights buoys tugs ferries etc to be maintained renewed and managed every year forever forever In the sealevel canal fed at each end by the ocean the thc water supply is unlimited and forever free It will not need the enormous expensive pumping plants required to fill the lock canal lake during the dry seasons |