anaheim-gazette 1907-04-25

SMITH ON PANAMA CANAL Delivers an Address Upon Waterway After Return from Isthmus —French Spent $210,000,000 Congressman S. C. Smith recently returned from a tour of inspection of the Panama canal and delivered at his home town of Bakersfield an interesting lecture upon progress of work on the waterway. Mr. Smith says the canal will be completed in six or seven years. From the Bakersfield Echo we take the following synopsis of his lecture, which was given in aid of a movement by the ladies to plant trees upon the streets of that city: Mr. Smith began his address with a brief review of the efforts to find a waterway connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific, which started 400 years ago, when Columbus, after discovering the continent, began coasting up and down Central America searching the inlets for a passage to the other great ocean which the natives told him was but a short distance westward. Years later Napoleon, then a prisoner on the island of Elba, gave his genius to the planning of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, and pleaded with the French government to allow him to go to the New World and undertake that work under pledge that he would never return to Europe. He touched briefly on the organization of the Panama canal company under De Lesseps, and went a little more into detail on the subject of the negotiations which finally ended in clearing away all obstacles to the construction of the canal by the United States government. lon from filthy, sewerless, cities with no water supply or tanks in the garrets or cisterns back yards for holding rain two of the best paved, best cities in the world. He told engineer Wallace, who was sealing canal zone when it was in condition, took with him as personal equipment two metal one for himself and one for who accompanied him. The won out in his fight with yellow earth with the exception of and Japanese. Nearly all skilled labor is from American esprit of the American continent excellent. There are few men years of age, and there is a feeling among them that it well to stay too long. Mr. Smith said that in six years, if everything goes well should be sailing through this If the great undertaking is can honestly and economically, will national scandal or a great b will be a monument to the nation that will last for a Whether or not it can be can honestly and economically will on the honesty and capacity of dividual American citizens given the work to do. DESCRIPTION OF THE CANAL The length of the Panama canal tide on the Atlantic to on the Pacific is 41.5 miles deepening of the bays at it is 49.72 miles long. Of the length of 49.72 miles, 1138 m be at ocean level and 38.34 m with the French government to allow him to go to the New World and undertake that work under pledge that he would never return to Europe. He touched briefly on the organization of the Panama canal company under De Lesseps, and went a little more into detail on the subject of the negotiations which finally ended in clearing away all obstacles to the construction of the canal by the United States government. The French company spent $210,000,000 on the canal and moved more cubic yards of earth than were excavated in the Suez canal as first constructed. The earth excavated, however, was thrown out at the sides of Culebra cut, and about half of it will have to be moved again because the Americans have planned to widen the canal. The Culebra cut is about five miles long and extends through the spine of isthmus. It is the only part of the canal that resembles the picture that most people have in their minds, that of a great, deep trench with steep walls rising on each side. For a greater part of the distance the completed canal will follow winding natural depressions transformed into inland lakes by the means of immense dams placed across their outlets to the sea. These lakes will be some eighty-five feet above sea level, and will be reached by a flight of locks like an immense stairway of two or three gigantic steps. Proceeding from the Atlantic side the boats will pass for seven miles through a sea level canal cut in low and to the point where the great Gatun dam will be thrown across the valley of the Chagres river, impounding its waters and forming a great artificial lake. This lake section of the canal will be twenty-five miles long, and will afford anchorage for many fleets of vessels if desired for purpose of repair, shelter or otherwise. On the other side of the Culebra cut another, smaller lake will be formed in a similar manner. This lake will be five miles in length and from it a double pair of locks will drop the westward bound vessels to the level of the Pacific ocean. Mr. Smith illustrated the description of the canal with maps and charts and gave a very good idea of the immensity of the Culebra cut by means of a piece of wrapping paper cut in the form of a cross-section of the canal with a small black rectangular spot in the center to DESCRIPTION OF THE CANAL The length of the Panama canal mean tide on the Atlantic to me on the Pacific is 41.5 miles and the deepening of the bays at it is 49.72 miles long. Of this length of 49.72 miles, 1138 m be at ocean level and 38.34 m be in fresh water. THE GATUN LOCKS From the Atlantic ocean to Tun dam and locks, the distance miles, the width of the canal in and the excavation is 20,455,000 yards. The Gatun locks will be in one side by side, with three locks flight. Each lock will be 1000 feet wide; two of them have a rise of 30 feet each and feet, making a rise of 85 feet surface of the fresh water by the construction of the locks will be: Excavation, cubic yd 320,000; concrete; cubic yards, cut stone, cubic yds, 5700; cast 1,830,000; steel gates, lbs, 29,233. THE GATUN DAM The Gatun dam will be 7700 feet on the crest, a half mile thick base, 100 feet on the top and high. The slope on the lake be 1 on 3; on the back side 1 on the water and 1 on 25 below the line. Earth fill, 21,200,000 cubic yards. CHAGRES RIVER SPILLWAY The locks will be at the left end the dam, looking toward the and at the right end will be way for regulating the flow Chagres river. This spillway tain: Concrete, cubic yards, steel gates, lbs, 5,000,000. THE LAKE SECTION The lake section proper, with the portion between the Gatun and the big Culebra cut, a dis about 25 miles. takes chlly formation of the country as and depth. It will be at no point rower than three hundred mthe excavation will amount to 000 cubic yards. THE CULEBRA CUT. The big Culebra cut is ab miles long and will be 200 feet another, smaller lake will be formed in a similar manner. This lake will be five miles in length and from it a double pair of locks will drop the westward bound vessels to the level of the Pacific ocean. Mr. Smith illustrated the description of the canal with maps and charts and gave a very good idea of the immensity of the Culebra cut by means of a piece of wrapping paper cut in the form of a cross-section of the canal with a small black rectangular spot in the center to represent the comparative size of the Oil Exchange building. The annual rainfall on the isthmus is measured in feet, not inches, and is about as follows: At Colon, 12½ feet; at Empire, 7½ feet; at Panama, 5 to 7 feet. It rains day after day and day after day, and the growth of vegetation is indescribable. The weather is not hot according to the thermometer, there being no record of 100 degrees. At Panama the range is from 86.1 in November to 76.6 in January. The humidity is from 80 in the dry season to 87.7 in the wet. He described the great task of transforming the cities of Panama and Co- A New Orleans woman was thin. Because she did not extract sufficient nourishment from her food. She took Scott's Emulsion. Result: She gained a pound a day in weight. ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00 filthy, sewerless, unkempt no water supply other than garrets or cisterns in the for holding rainwater, to best paved, best sewered world. He told how Enallace, who was sent to the when it was in its worst took with him as part of his equipment two metal caskets, himself and one for his wife, expanded him. The engineer his fight with yellow fever, there is very little sickness workmen employed on the men comprise representaalmost every nation, race of men on the face of the exception of Chinese ese. Nearly all of the or is from America, and the American contingent is There are few men over 35 and there is a general long them that it will not be too long. said that in six or seven everything goes well the ships sailing through the canal. undertaking is carried out and economically, without a andal or a great blunder it convent to the American will last for all time. not it can be carried out and economically will depend density and capacity of the inAmerican citizens who are work to do. SCRIPTION OF THE CANAL outh of the Panama canal from on the Atlantic to mean tide is 41.5 miles and with ing of the bays at both ends miles long. Of this total 9.72 miles, 11 3.8 miles will level and 38.34 miles will locks which are at Pacific tidewater, there is another fresh water lake about 5 miles in length. The excavation of a few high points amounts to but 1,-680,000 cubic yards. THE SOSO LOCKS. The Soso locks will drop west-bound vessels into the Pacific and raise east-bound vessels into Sosa lake. They will be in duplicate, one pair having a 30-foot lift and the other a 25-foot lift. They will contain: Excavation, cubic yards... 2,380,000 Concrete, cubic yds... 992,800 Cut stone, cubic yds... 6,000 Brick, cubic yds... 14,000 Cast iron, lbs... 1,281,000 Steel gates, lbs... 37,397,000 Flanking the Soso locks will be three dams to close depressions in the hills. These will contain 11,697,000 cubic yards of earth. EXCAVATION IN PACIFIC. Excavation in Pacific waters to deepen the harbor will be 4 miles long, 500 feet wide and equal 8,528,000 cubic yards. SUMMARY. Excavation, cubic yds... 110,353,000 Dams, cubic yds... 33,997,000 Concrete, cubic yds... 2,998,192 Cut stone, cubic yds... 15,700 Brick, cubic yds... 42,000 Cast iron, lbs... 3,843,000 Steel gates, lbs... 90,910,000 A RICH UP-COUNTY TOWN Bakersfield Impresses One As a Prosperous and Well Governed City--Abundance of Water in Kern River. A RICH UP-COUNTY TOWN Bakersfield Impresses One As a Prosperous and Well Governed City--Abundance of Water in Kern River. The visitor to Bakersfield sees much to interest him. He finds there a clean, well-governed city with a population of 8000, besides the 2500 to 3000 in the adjoining town of Kern, distant one and one-half miles. There are in Bakers-field three or four mercantile establishments maintaining department stores that would do credit to a metropolis. These stores draw trade from a large domain, the county of Kern being in area almost equal to that of the state of Massachusetts. There is a modern street car system, run by electric power generated in the head waters of Kern river. The same power supplies light and mechanical energy to the twin cities. There are churches of every leading denomination. The Methodists have a handsome brick structure that cost $20,000, and the Baptists a similar building. There is a multiplicity of fraternities, clubs, etc. The leading woman's club owns its own building. The city has been greatly improved in its morals. Gambling resorts, which were formerly wide open, with faro, roulette, poker, etc., rampant, have been closed and almost repressed. The business portion of the city, embracing over a dozen blocks, is provided with bituminized pavement which is cleaned every morning by a gang of street sweepers. Cement walks are the rule. It is asserted that Bakers-field with its twenty miles of walk of this description, has more than any other city of the state of like population. Nineteenth and Chester avenue, each one and one-half miles in length, are provided with cement walks from one end to the other, and many other streets are similarly favored where travel is the greatest. The roadways of the city, which were formerly beds of pulverized sand, which the winds ing of the Kern Valley back several years ago, but still appearance; a fine free library, well provided with books and medicals; a handsome brick with jail attached; a beautiful clock tower, built of woven carrying a clock 60 feet ground that strikes the house and night; the Hopkins b cated at the intersection of main avenues, built of white brick, four stories in height by stores and offices, and on 1000. Then there is the building, in which the A have a beautiful hall on the floor, on a ten-year lease—the cost $35,000. A postoffice bui ing $30,000, close by, which ernment has leased for ten Willow estate erected a two-structure costing $20,000. Before oil was discovered part of the state, Bakers-field good business town. It is by a fine agricultural countrie the rich irrigated lands yield fully of alfalfa, fruit and o ucts. But with the advent city took a bound forward. Total boom subsided, but th e never retrograded. The c has come to stay, at least generations. Although pri THE CULEBRA CUT. Culebra cut is about five and will be 200 feet wide on the water-level 30 feet. cubic yds. ... 1,560,000 yds. ... 1,100,000 cubic yds. ... 513,612 cubic yds. ... 4,000 yds. ... 8,000 yds. ... 732,000 ... 19,500,000 EDRO MIGUEL LOCKS. Miguel is one pair of locks across the water-level 30 feet. The substantiality of Bakersfield is shown by its many solid business blocks which ornament its streets. Many of these have been erected since the oil boom six years ago. Besides three leading hotel buildings, there are the Oil Exchange, a modern, four-story structure, housing a business men's club and maintaining a modern cafe; the Producers' Bank building, of ornate architectural design, four stories in height, housing two banks, and filled with modernly appointed offices; three large theatrical buildings where visiting companies play to the best houses of any ten-thousand city on the coast; a fine armory, housing a well-disciplined company of the National guard, and containing the best hall in town; the Kern County Land company's building, covering quarter of a block, built of pressed brick and beautifully appointed throughout; the Masonic temple, three stories in height, well planned and built; the Bank of Bakersfield building, constructed of white sandstone and marble, and a thing of beauty within and without; the build- Before oil was discovered part of the state, Bakersfield good business town. It is by a fine agricultural county the rich irrigated lands yield fully of alfalfa, fruit and oats. But with the advent city took a bound forward. The boom subsided, but the never retrograded. The city has come to stay, at least generations. Although prior low, the industry has revived slump of three years ago. Tion is increasing so rapid production must also increase there has been a stiffening and a decided resumption work. There are several oil fields in Kern county which are tributary to Bakersfield. There is the Kern County field four miles north; the old field, thirty-five miles west; fields, forty miles southwest way field, between McKinley Sunset; and the Devil's Ditch northwest of McKittrick. latter of these districts are by rail with Bakersfield. The center there and the supply fields are mainly purchased city. With the development is going on and the maintenance plants already established mense business is derived from industry. There are now about 860 wells in the Kern river field. not all of these are being put daily production is something 000 barrels per day. There McKittrick field 115 compliments of the same in Sunset, Midway. Owing to former transportation in the two lakes a greater proportion of well- For Outing Suits Fancy Vests Negligee Shirts Panama Hats, Wash Ties SEE Yungbluth & Kroeger 127 Center St. Phones Home 1044 Main 294 The Way to the East Via New Orleans and the Sunset Route Through the historic South, via San Francisco and the OGDEN ROUTE Over the Sierra Nevada Mountains— Across Great Salt Lake. Via PORTLAND and the SHÀSTA ROUTE—up the Sacramento y and over the beautiful Siskiyou mountains. Tourist excursions every day from Los Angeles, via the various is without change to principal eastern cities. Inquire of PICKERING, Agent, Southern Pacific, Anaheim, Cal. Going to Move We are going to move our stock to the new store, cor. and Claudina street, where our building is now in use of erection. We will commence now to sell all crockery and glassware at 10 per cent. Discount from Regular Prices A. NAGEL The Kern Valley bank, erected years ago, but still modern in design; a fine free library built provided with books and permeable handsome brick court house attached; a beautiful memorial tower, built of white brick, or a clock 60 feet from the that strikes the hours of daylight; the Hopkins building, located at the intersection of the two avenues, built of white sandstone four stories in height, occupied offices and offices, and costing $35,-men there is the Workmen's office, in which the A. O. U. W. beautiful hall on the second floor a ten-year lease—this building costing $4000. A postoffice building costing $2000, close by, which the government has leased for ten years. The estate erected a two-story brick building costing $20,000. The oil was discovered in that state, Bakersfield was a business town. It is surrounded by agricultural country, where irrigated lands yield wonderfully fruit and other products with the advent of oil the next bound forward. The parish subsided, but the town has retrograded. The oil business is to stay, at least for several months. Although prices are still pegged there than in the Kern river and McKittrick fields. Probably 10,000 barrels per day will cover the production in the county outside of the Kern field. The railroad companies are shipping an average of 200 carloads of oil per day, while the Standard oil company sends through its pipe line from 6000 to 7000 barrels per day. Imense storage capacity has been provided, especially in the Kern river field where there are at present iron and earthen reservoirs that will accommodate 10,000,000 barrels of oil. The voting population of the United States totals almost 15,000,000 and it will take more than a $5,-000,000 fund to corrupt a working majority of them. Mr. Bryan says "the conservative wing of the democratic party will not manage the next campaign." The conservative wing of the democratic party has long since been furled and put away. Secretary Taft is training up gradually. After some comparatively easy and indolent lid sitting stunts in Cuba and Porto Rico, he is going to get a taste of the real and streng- AUTOMOBILES! Ford Moline Wayne, Maxwell Touring Cars and Runabouts. Call us up for demonstration. P. J. Weisel, Agent Anaheim, Cal. Phone Main 582 Your Dainty Underwear And Starched Pieces don't look as though they had been through a riot when they are returned from the Santa Ana Steam Laundry E. W. McCOLLUM ANAHEIM AGENT OUR WAGON CALLS