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Show TIJAil. Ten and a Half Miles of Water Way Is Now Open Washington. August 19. Five and a half miles of the Panama canal at the Atlantic entrance were opened to navigation for the sand and rock fleet of the Atlantic division last week, according to the Issuo of the Canal Record, which reached this city today. This secllcu, added to the fivy miles of the Pacific entrance, which 1 open to vessels of all kinds, brings the total of tho canal now in actual m?e. up to ten and a half miles. The division Just opened Is not completed, but It had a channel 15 feet deep at Its shallowest point and a width of 100 feet at its narrowest ; point. ' The dredges are constantly work- Ing on this part, broadening and deep- j enlng It to the full width of 300 feet , and the full depth of 45 feet. j The part just opened does away , with the long detour via the old the old French cunal which It waj necessary for tho rock and sand-laden ships to make In hauling their cargoes car-goes from Porto Bello and Nome de DIorf to Gatun. |