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Show MUST WIDEN PANAMA CANAL TO 600 FEET IN 20 YEARS, SAYS DE LESSEPS ENGINEER Twenty years from now the Pana-ma Pana-ma canal will ha-, e to be widened to jjflnl . ', 600 feet, since its present width of V 110 feet will be inadequate to handle v the ship traffic, says Philippe Bunaa-I Bunaa-I Varilla, engincer-in-chief of the canal under Ferdinand de Lesscpg J from 1884 to 1891. -f "T,1 Panama canal, which waa 'L tnouPnt when projected to be per- petual, is just good enough for ths !ftfL j beginning, and should be transform- Hw,-. 33fc7 erj ln, the 'strata of Panama,'" i y' said Bunau-Vanlla "This idea of a feHBBZSsafc. canal could not be carried ''Ir-T'lv r,ljt within time and money limits by working on land, hut it can be done easilv ,n the course of ten years by , -PMM '1C mUC morc pow-erful and cheaper Hunau-Varilla believes the canal fjjjfl mountains, after the canal is opened, JU ls ;lowly but ine,vorably goinjr to be-HBKaS be-HBKaS come the Europe of America," h H Eays- Philippe Bunau-Varilla pointing out the Cukbra cut on a bas-relief map Panama. |