Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — ON THE BIG DITCH. [ARTICLE]

ON THE BIG DITCH.

We are indebted to W. L. Bringle of Newton tp., for oopies of the Claypool (Ind.) Journalsent him by his daughter, Mrs. Frank Yeoman—containing interesting letters from Panama by Charles Yeoman, a brother of Frank’s, who has a position as engineer at $2lO per month on the big canal that the government is trying to dig there. We have not the space to go into the details of these letters, but they are very interesting we regret that we cannot reproduce them in full. He says in one of the letters, among other things: "The canal I think will be finished sometime perhaps in 15 or 18 years. I visited the Culibra out, which is the deepest of all. It is 950 feet deep or will be when finished and about J mile wide at the top. It is no wonder the French had to give it up for the machinery they had is no earthly good for the class of work which bad to be done. Our Government is using a few of the old French locomotives,' but the other machines have been pushed off into the jungle or rolled down into deep ravines. Yesterday I counted 75 locomotives that have been thrown away and about 150 steam shovels. That’s just what I saw here and they are scattered all along the 47 miles of the canal.”

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