Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . the finest evidences of thespirit animating the Canal force was the fashion inwhich this problem of the slides has been was at first disappointing, almost demoralizing,to find over night the work of weeks undone and theday when finis could be written to the volumeput far over into the future. But the only effectwas a tighter grip on the pick and the shovel, anew determination to force through the was approached as Grant approached Vicks-burg. To reduce it and to open the Canal to traffic,as Grant opened the Mississippi
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . the finest evidences of thespirit animating the Canal force was the fashion inwhich this problem of the slides has been was at first disappointing, almost demoralizing,to find over night the work of weeks undone and theday when finis could be written to the volumeput far over into the future. But the only effectwas a tighter grip on the pick and the shovel, anew determination to force through the was approached as Grant approached Vicks-burg. To reduce it and to open the Canal to traffic,as Grant opened the Mississippi to the steamboatsof the nation, took more time than was at first ex-pected, but it had to be done. The dirt could notalways slide in faster than it could be carted out,for in time there would be no dirt left to slide. Andso, imdismayed and intent upon success, the wholeforce from Col. Goethals to the youngest engineermoved on Culebra and the doom of that stubbornblock to progress was sealed. To the unscientific mind the slides are terrifying. SLIDE ON WEST BANK OF THE CANAL NEAR CULEBRAPicture shows about 1, cubic yards of material moving toward the cut at about three yards a day 204 PANAMA AND THE CANAL
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