. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . er itshould be a sea-level waterway, or one with locks. Themajority of American engineers have always favored a lockproject. In order to secure the fullest possible informa-tion on this most important question, President Rooseveltreferred the matter to a board of consulting engineers ofthirteen members, five of wliom were foreigners. The re-I)ort of this board did not make the settlement of the ques-tion much easier; because the majority of the board, in- THE PANAMA CANAL
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . er itshould be a sea-level waterway, or one with locks. Themajority of American engineers have always favored a lockproject. In order to secure the fullest possible informa-tion on this most important question, President Rooseveltreferred the matter to a board of consulting engineers ofthirteen members, five of wliom were foreigners. The re-I)ort of this board did not make the settlement of the ques-tion much easier; because the majority of the board, in- THE PANAMA CANAL 237 cludiiijjj tlic fivo foivign members and three of the Amer-icans, reported in favor of a sea-level canal. However, thelock project was favored by a majority of tlie Americanong:incors on the consulting board and by a majority ofthe engineers on the board that had been appointed toconstruct the canal. President Roosevelt referred the mat-tor to Congress which wisely decided in favor of a canalwitli locks. The Canal Route and Project.—The canal now being con-structed extends from Limou Bay on the Caribbean shore,. Pedro Miguel Lock Site. June, 1908. near Colon, to the bay of Panama w^hicli it enters a shortdistance from the city of Panama. The length of the canalwill be 50 miles, 4J miles consist of a submerged channelthrough Limon Bay, and at the Panama Bay end anotherdredged channel of about the same length is necessary inorder to reach 40 feet of water in that bay. For nearlythree fifths of the length, the canal route is in the valleyof the Chagres River, a typical torrential stream which 238 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION enters the Caribbean near, but not through, Limon part of the Chagres River valley used by the canal willbe converted into a lake, which is shown on the accompany-ing map representing the Isthmus of Panama as it willappear after the canal is completed. The route may be described as follows: Starting fromthe Caribbean, there is a dredged channel thr
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