The Panama Canal: An Engineering Treatise. A Series of Papers Covering in Full Detail the Technical Problems Involved in the Construction of the Panama Canal - Geology, Climatology, Municipal Engineering; Dredging, Hydraulics, Power Plants, Etc. Prepared by Engineers and Other Specialists in Charge of the Various Branches of the Work and Presented at the International Engineering Congress, San Francisco, California, 1915, Volume 1George Washington Goethals McGraw Hill, 1916 |
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Alhajuela Ancon April Atlantic average Balboa basin Bohio built Canal Zone cars Chagres River channel Cocoli Colon concrete construction continental divide cost cranes cubic feet cubic yards Cucaracha Culebra Cut curves December depth discharge Division drainage drills dry season dumped east elevation Engineer evaporation excavation fill filter flood French Canal gage gallons Gamboa Gatun Dam Gatun Lake Gold Hill height Hill hydraulic hydraulic fill inches Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus July June labor ladder dredges litres located locks material maximum meters miles Miraflores Lake mixers months Obispo operation Pacific coast Panama Canal Panama Railroad Pedro Miguel pipe placed plant Plate Porto Bello pumps rainfall rates records rock route run-off sand sewers side slide slope Spillway station steam shovels storage Straits of Magellan suction dredges supply surface tion track traffic trestle United wall yellow fever
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Page 118 - States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said Canal...
Page 5 - If the work should ever be executed, so as to admit of the passage of sea vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to any one nation, but should be extended to all parts of the globe, upon the payment of a just compensation, or reasonable tolls.
Page 118 - ... of fifty years and upon the expiration of said term of fifty years the system of sewers and water works shall revert to and become the properties of the cities of Panama and Colon respectively, and the use of the water shall be free to the inhabitants of Panama and Colon, except to the extent that water rates may be necessary for the operation and maintenance of said system of sewers and water.
Page 5 - ... I am certain that they will do it. " Would that I might live to see it ! — but I shall not. I should like to see another thing, — a junction of the Danube and the Rhine. But this undertaking is so gigantic that I have doubts of its completion, particularly when I consider our German resources. And thirdly, and lastly, I should wish to see England in possession of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. Would I could live to see these three great works ! it would be well worth the trouble to...
Page 3 - whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world.
Page 17 - Nicaraguan route and the Panama route, with a view to determining the most practicable and feasible route for such canal together with the proximate and probable cost of constructing a canal at each of two or more of said routes...
Page 58 - As we view it, the Panama Canal is to be one of the agencies of transportation between the east and the west, but not necessarily the sole carrier of the coast to coast business. If the railroads are able to make such rates from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific coast as will hold to their lines some portion of this traffic with profit to themselves, they should be permitted so to do. The acceptance of this...
Page 28 - Time of transit through completed Canal (hours)... 10 to 12 Time of passage through locks (hours) 3 Relocated Panama Railroad, total cost...
Page 19 - Company, and to secure from the Republic of Colombia, upon such terms as he might deem reasonable, the perpetual control of a strip of land...
Page 17 - Commission is of the opinion that ' the most practicable and feasible route ' for an Isthmian canal, to be ' under the control, management, and ownership of the United States ' is that known as the Nicaragua route.