Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the Panama CanalU.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - 426 էջ |
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40 feet adopted Alhajuela amount average BERTONCINI Boca Bohio bottom width breakwater breccia BURR C. S. Tide Tables cents Chagres River CHAIRMAN clay Colon Comité Technique Committee consideration construction cost cubic feet cubic yards Culebra cut DAUCHY Depth at entrance dimensions DOSE dredging dumps earth dam elevation estimate excavation feet per second flood Gamboa dam gates Gatun dam GUÉRARD harbor high water HUNTER increase Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus kilometer La Boca labor lake length Limon Bay lock canal Lock-Canal lockage lowest neap tide MALTBY material maximum mean low water miles Mindi Miraflores navigation necessary Obispo Pacific Panama Bay Panama Canal Panama Railroad PARSONS Pedro Miguel proposed quantities QUELLENNEC RANDOLPH reason rock sand sea-level canal sea-level plan ships side slope steam shovels STEARNS STEVENS Suez Canal summit level tidal lock TINCAUZER tracks traffic United vessels WALLACE water of lowest WELCKER
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Էջ 110 - ... ship canal from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Such canal shall be of sufficient capacity and depth as shall afford convenient passage for vessels of the largest tonnage and greatest "draft now in use, and such as may be reasonably anticipated, and shall be supplied with all necessary locks and other appliances to meet the necessities of vessels passing through the same...
Էջ 185 - French commissions which have preceded it since the failure of the old company in rejecting the sea-level plan. While such a plan would be physically practicable, and might be adopted if no other solution were available, the difficulties of all kinds, and especially those of time and cost, would be so great that a canal with a summit level reached by locks is to be preferred.
Էջ vii - If, as has been suggested to me by officers of this Department entitled to speak with authority on military subjects, these locks may be located against and behind Sosa Hill in such a way as to use the hill as a protection against such fire, then economy would lead to the retention of this lake. The lake would be useful to commerce as a means for relieving any possible congestion in the canal should the traffic be very great and would give, in case of need, a place for concentrating or sheltering...
Էջ 56 - There are certain items of cost, such as construction of military defenses, naval stations, government of the Canal Zone, sanitation, light-houses, buoying, lighting, and the provision of tugs, lighters, derricks, dredges, scows, etc., which have not been included. They are common to any type of canal. It was not understood to be the desire of the President that the Board should take into account anything that did not relate to the engineering features of the canal construction, but there is no doubt,...
Էջ 213 - ... the first ship across the Isthmus; that is, which will in the shortest time possible secure a Panama waterway between the oceans of such a character as to guarantee permanent and ample communication for the greatest ships of our Navy and for the largest steamers on either the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Էջ 12 - Isthmus; that is, which will in the shortest time possible secure a Panama waterway between the oceans of such a character as to guarantee permanent and ample communication for the greatest ships of our Navy and for the largest steamers on either the Atlantic or the Pacific. The delay in transit of the vessels owing to additional locks would be of small consequence when compared with shortening the time for the construction of the canal or diminishing the risks in the construction. In short, I desire...
Էջ 408 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal...
Էջ 128 - September, 1905, for the purpose of considering the various plans proposed to and by the Isthmian Canal Commission for the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama between Cristobal and La Boca...
Էջ 20 - Here we are comparing two periods in which there was a large number of noniminunes present — the same season of the year and the same climatic conditions generally — the only difference being that in the year 1905 modern tropical sanitary methods were enforced all over the Isthmus by some 2,200 men. * * * Twenty years ago these methods were unknown, malaria and yellow fever were a mystery to science, and our predecessors were unable to do anything for their control. . The results obtained, I...
Էջ 12 - Two of the prime consideration« to be kept steadily in mind are — (1) The utmost practicable speed of construction; (2) Practical certainty that the plan proposed will be feasible — that it can be carried out with the minimum risk.