Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Gatun Locks. Of this distance four miles is a channeldredged out of the bottom of Limon Bay and thebottom width of the canal from its beginning to thelocks is 500 feet. Its depth on this division will be 41feet at mean tide. For the protection of vessels en-tering the canal at the Atlantic end, or lying in Colonharbor, a great breakwater 10,500 feet, or a fewfeet less than two miles long, made of huge massesof rock blasted along the line of the Canal, orespecially quarried at Porto Bello, extends fromToro Point to Colon light. In all it will conta
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Gatun Locks. Of this distance four miles is a channeldredged out of the bottom of Limon Bay and thebottom width of the canal from its beginning to thelocks is 500 feet. Its depth on this division will be 41feet at mean tide. For the protection of vessels en-tering the canal at the Atlantic end, or lying in Colonharbor, a great breakwater 10,500 feet, or a fewfeet less than two miles long, made of huge massesof rock blasted along the line of the Canal, orespecially quarried at Porto Bello, extends fromToro Point to Colon light. In all it will contain2,840,000 cubic yards of rock and its estimatedcost is $5,500,000. In the original plans for the harbor of Cristobal. ENTRANCE TO GATUN LOCKSThe rafts in the foreground carry pipes through which suction dredges discharge material removed 171 172 PANAMA AND THE CANAL
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