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Show CULEBRA CUT EARTH SLIDE Battery of Steam-shovels Steam-shovels Are Removing Remov-ing Mountain Obstacle Uncle Sam Has Spent $281,702,630 on Canal Washington, April ll giant shoulder o! rok ihat for the last few years had prevented a mountain of earth from slipping into Culebrai cut on the Panama canal at la"t has given way. and according to official reports received todav the slide has moved Into the canal a distance of 80 j feet and Is still traveling. A battery of steam shovels is now tearing away at the earth and rock At the 'nd of March 32 of these engines en-gines were working in the canal prison pris-on at that point and besides this Ol in) other shovels Acre engaged in terracing ter-racing the banks and In miscellaneous miscellane-ous operations As a result the obstacle has been so far overcome that excavation has reached grade In all but 8000 feet of ten miles length of the cut. By October Oc-tober i five and s half million yards of material will have been taken out I by the steam shovels, when the wa- I ler will be turned on anil me shov-el shov-el will retreat before the dredges, loang them between two and three million cubic yards of material to remove. re-move. Up to Januarv 31 last the Lulled States government had expended on the canal $281,702,630.55. |