. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . t itself was up-raised sometimes as much as 18 feet, asif to recover the ground lost by theoperation of the steam shovels and the dirttrains. It was more than the mere digging ofa ditch that Colonel Goethals had to en-counter when seventy-five acres of thetown of Culebra broke away and movedfoot by foot into the canal; carrying hotelsand club houses with them until thesebuildings were removed. Cucaracha slidecarried into the cut many millions of cubicyards of material, bottling up the channel,and sending its toe sixty-odd feet upth
. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . t itself was up-raised sometimes as much as 18 feet, asif to recover the ground lost by theoperation of the steam shovels and the dirttrains. It was more than the mere digging ofa ditch that Colonel Goethals had to en-counter when seventy-five acres of thetown of Culebra broke away and movedfoot by foot into the canal; carrying hotelsand club houses with them until thesebuildings were removed. Cucaracha slidecarried into the cut many millions of cubicyards of material, bottling up the channel,and sending its toe sixty-odd feet upthe other side. It was fight, fight, fight,now with dynamite, now with steamshovels, now with hydraulic excavators,and now with dredges. The campaignfinally resolved itself into one of invitingthe slides to do their worst, and thenmeeting them as they came. Some ofthem, like Cucaracha, were mere masses ofmaterial slipping by force of gravity intothe channel; others, like the West Culebraslide, were breaks. If a cut is dugdeep enough, even side walls of granite. ^?^^
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