Show COST OF NICARAGUA CAHAL CANAL engineers place it at about estimates given of the ahe excavating and engineering problems deepest cut will be feet new now york the preliminary report of the nicaraguan canal commission consisting ot of gen haines admiral walker and prof haupt has been completed a before the senate ce committee timit tee during the christmas recess of congress or immediately afterward this report will give many details of construction lin in regard to the proposed route and will give a biose figure on the entire undertaking as far as human ingenuity can foresee A summary of these costs have been made out in section and without going into the details of curves and levels they are as follows tho the eastern harbor and jetties betties will require about nine million cubic yards of soft excavation the jetties betties themselves require about tour four hundred thousand cubic yards of rip rap stone the Grey town section of the canal that Is the section beginning at the harbor and reaching to the east divide will require sixteen million cubic yard yards of earth and clay excavations the three locks in this section will cost in the neighborhood of ten million dollars to complete with three million yards of excavation this section Is 13 miles in length and runs through the jungle near the coast there will be acres of clearing and grebing also in this section incidental expenses expense swill will amount to little besides those above enumerated therefore they are omitted emitted the divide section reaches from here through the higher range of hills to 24 miles further there are seven and one half million cubic yards of rock in this cut and about five million yards ot or earth eart liand and clay the depth of this cut will be mitigated by the helgath of or the canal which Is here feet abobo the sea the actual cutting will be feet in the deepest part from front here begins the choa section which runs through the san francisco basin and florida lagoon this Is ls low country and the cutting which wilt will reach to the ochoa dam at miles from the Carri carridean bean sea will only add ten million yards to the figures making a trifle over forty million cubic yards to the dam F prom rom here a summary of the tile cut through the tile san juan ri river verwill will aggregate Sl cubic yards with about more tor for curve widening and 2000 acres clearing and grubbing this will not include any of the dam or embankments but simply the channel cutting the bed of the san juau just river this makes seventy five million cubic yards of all grades of cutting to lake nicaragua the cost of the 0 ochoa c hoa dam upon which rests the entire feasibility uty of the route has not been bem accurately computed as the undertaking Is of BO so colossal a nature as to be beyond figuring within a unit or even more the dam will be over 1500 feet in length its foundation 73 75 feet below the bed of salt in the river bottom and its rise over ISO feet As the river will have to be turned from its ita course during its construction it will be seen that many details will have to be taken into consideration for an es estimate ti of its cost the san carlos embankment will cost several million dollars and the estimates are being made the tito cuts in the shallow parrot part of the lake will aggregate ten million yards making a total of eighty civo million to the western division of the canal the estimates tor for the western division have not yet been made batey arc are under the direction of admiral walkers son V W G walker and they amount to not less than thirty million cubic cuble yards more making a total of cubic yards of all kinds of excavation ca to the harbor at brito and allowing cubic yards yard tor for dredging here the total eitl ett mato imato will have come to nearly yards exclusive of all dams and embankments it will be seon seen that will be a conservative estimate of the entire cost of the canal and this almost agrees with those of gen W ludlowe Lud lows report of isug |