p. 135 | THE PANAMA CANAL SURVEY

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 26, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 9

THE PANAMA CANAL SURVEY.

A SPECIAL to the Inter-Ocean gives the following summary of the report of the Scientific Commission:—

The report of the International Scientific Commission of Engineers for verification of the survey of the Panama Canal was presented to DeLesseps, Feb. 14. It is signed by J. Dirks and by all the members of the commission. They unanimously agree that the cutting of the canal by the route which DeLesseps has proposed is entirely feasible. It is recommended in the report that an artificial lake shall be made in the valley of the upper Chagres, together with a large dam with sluices, to be built at Cruces, near Matachin. The reservoir will hold 1,000,000,000 of cubic meters, or much more than the whole quantity of water that fell during the great freshet of last November. The canal will be protected, and drained slowly, by a channel to be built partly by using the river, which is on the northern side of the canal, and runs parallel with it. The report also proposes that a great pier 2,000 meters in length should be built at the Bay of Colon or Aspinwall, so as to protect shipping from the gales which prevail there during the greater part of the year. The total expense of the work is estimated by the commission at $170,000,000.