Identifier: sightseeinginsou00friz (find matches)
Title: Sight-seeing in South America
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Frizell, William Givens, 1866- (from old catalog) Greenfield, George Henry, 1873-
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Publisher: (Dayton, Ohio, The Utterbein press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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reaching more than twice aroundthe globe. From the Gatun locks we took the train along the edgeof what will be the Gatun Lake. About half way betweenColon and Panama, is Gargona, a construction town, thelargest in the canal zone. When the canal is opened thetown will be seven feet under water. On the right near Natachin is Cerro Gigante, from thecrest of which Balboa in 1513 first saw the Pacific. Another stop of about an hour was made at CulebraCut, where we had the opportunity of descending to thebottom of the future waterway. Here the engines haveeaten away a mountain 312 feet high and nine miles inlength. Such a mixture of tracks, men, engines, and ma-chines has never before been brought together in oneplace. Here are machines that lift a whole railway, track,rails, ties, and move it to a new position, also wreckingtrains that lift one hundred tons. Ninety-five ton shovelswith large dippers remove rocks containing as much assix cubic yards. These shovels load the material on dirt
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272 Sight-Seeing in South America trains that haul it to the breakwater between Balboa andNaos Island. In this cut is a board ten or twelve feet long. It marksthe French level, about 161 feet below the surface. At Culebra Cut, one only begins to realize the amountof excavation necessary for the canal. The amount ofmaterial taken out by the two other Panama Canal com-panies was 78,146,960 cubic yards of which it is esti-mated 29,908,000 cubic yards are utilized in the presentcanal. The total excavation for the canal is estimatedat over 225,000,000 cubic yards. The work accomplishedin Culebra Cut by the French was a deep, narrow cut atGold Hill, of 140 feet, which left an additional cut of 153feet to be made for the present canal. One of the engineers of the canal took us to the lowerlevel of the cut, where we witnessed what had been calleda volcanic eruption. A little steam and smoke were issu-ing from the side of the cut. It was simply a chemicalreaction caused by the slacking of rock

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