PANAMA CANAL.
UNPRECEDENTED SPEED OF WORK. An official report received in New York from the Governor of the Panama Canal zone states that during the month of September over a million and a half cubic yards of material were excavated in connection with the Panama canal work. This constitutes a record. The great steam shovels are doing splendidly, and the work is everywhere going on satisfactorily. At the beginning of this year it was estimated that 53 million cubic yards remained to be excavated, so that at the present rate of progress the work should be finished long before 1915, the date fixed for the opening of the canal. A single steam shovel v/ill excavate 1,000 cubic yards a day.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8995, 4 December 1907, Page 3
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