Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-02-21 | Page 5 | Tons of Dirt in Motion

oo TONS OF DIRT IN MOTION Slides at Panama Canal Are Showing Unusual Activity Washington. Feb. 21. More than two million cubic yard3 of earth and rock are in motion along the Panama canal and tho slides are showing more : than unusual activity This was the Information received from the canal gone today. In addition to the slide-., which will Involve additional work be. , lore the water is turned iuto the! canal, there still remains about four million yards of excavation before the work is completed. On or about October I, the water will be turned Into the canal bed for by that time it will have risen behind the great dam at Camboa to a height of 74 feet above sea level. The army 1 engineers are looking forward to the j oucnlng of the sluice gates for it will ! give them opportunity then to test the proof of their assertion that tho slides of earth and rock in the culebra cut can be removed cheaply and with little trouble by means of dredsres and that the, slides will preseut little engineering en-gineering difficulties