Front:
VICTORIAVANCOUVER
SEATTLE
WASHING TON
PORTEAND
OREGON
84STON
EWYORK
FRANCISCO
BALT MORE
LO ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
MOBILE
HE ORLEANS
PARAMA
CANAL STATISTICS
Length of Canal 50% Miles.
Culebra Cut Depth 300 feet.
Locks in Pairs 12.
Locks Usable Length 1,000 Feet.
Width
110
Excavation Estimated Total 174,666,596 CY.
Concrete Total Estimate 5,000,000 CY.
Time of Transit Through Canal 10 to 12 Hours.
Locks
Canal Force Actually at Work 39,000.
Canal Co. Formed by the french 1879.
Work Begun
fight Years Work by the French Cart $300,090,000
Work Begun by U. S. May 4, 1904.
U. S. Paid French Canal Co. $40,000,000
U. S. Paid Republic of Panama $10,000,000
Cost of Canal Total Over $375,000,000
Date of Completion, Jan. 1, 1915.
Shortening of Route N.Y. to S.F. 8,415 M.
A Yearly Saving of Millions
to the Shipping World.
Passage
3.
RIO.DE JANIER
1881
66
The Short Cut to the Golden Gate.
50UTH ΑΜERICA
CALIE
RNI
Back:
20
Domestic and
6553
