| Show PANAMA CANAL TO BE CUT director lien cral declares that the uie ditch will be completed new york nov 29 A hulln director general of the new panama canal company has come over from paris to see what this government thinks about the water route between the atlantic and the pacific he protests that there la no intention on the part of the french company to cell the canal and says that it has only one purpose in view and that Is to cut the big ditch at once when asked if the published reports that his company wanted to sell out to the government were true mr hulln said absolutely no selling out Is the last thing we should think of we want to cut the canal and wo are ready to do it what la more we are doing it we have kept 1500 to men constantly employed in digging the canal and a force of is now at work on the ditch what has been accomplished much we have actually dug eighteen miles of the total of forty six of these vessels are now navigating twelve miles on the atlantic and six allee on the pacific side the canals depth Is 28 feet though in some places silt has made bars that would have to be removed and can be removed easily our company which is the successor by purchase of the de lesseps company has in assets reckoning as such the machinery and accomplished complis hed work at least these assets have been appraised at we have gone tar enough to learn that the panama canal is entirely practicable and is the shortest cheapest and best water route between the two oceans there were formerly thought to be two insuperable obstacles the chag res river and the culebra cut doth of these difficulties have disappeared before engineering science the chagares chagres river can be readily mastered and the cut through the culebra mountains which was once thought impracticable because of the sliding earth that filled the ditch as fast as it could be dug has turned out to be a comparatively simple problem it has been found that there Is a rock substratum through which the anal may be cut so that it cannot be disturbed by sliding earth an international technical commission has recently examined the route of our canal and will I 1 think pronounce it entirely feasible on that commission gen H L abbott represented the united states and angland and germany were represented by engineers who had experience in digging the great manchester and kiel canals gen abbott has given hla view in several articles in the periodicals he calls attention to these two facts the panama canal would be forty six miles long and the nicaragua canal would be miles the panama would cost while the nicaragua would cost 1 I may add to these facts given by gen abbott the important one that the panama banat can be completed in less than bait the time it would take to cut the waterway across nicaragua when asked about his object in going to washington mr hulln ald we want to know just what interest the united states takes in the canal we are not trying to get the government to buy ua out but it is natural that the united states being most deeply affected by the canal will feel a keen interest in it and it Is equally natural that we should want to learn just what the extent of that interest may be mr will go to washington in a few days |
