The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 08, 1913, Image 7
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COCKROACH
? I.WPICKARD
Colon, C, you wlnh to hear
"language," just nay "Cucaracha" to
one oi t li<? engineers engaged in, build*
lug tho central diviHion of tho 1'anama
canal.
.('ueuracha in Spanish means a
cockroach. In tho Canal Zone it
means tho greatest of tho numerous
h 1 ith'ii that have made tho completion
of tho Culebru cut ho different and no
expensive. Why that slide was named
tho cockroach 1 could not discover.
Certainly even the Panamanian cock
roach 1m not so large, and ho moves
much more Hwiftly. t
Heforo tho ilrat French company
quit operations in 1889 the Cucaracha
began to Hlide, and it hrBt gavo tho
AnJoricanw trouble in 11)05, the second
year of their work on the canal, be
tween then and July 1,1912, nearly
3,000,000 cubic yards of material was
removed from tho canal becauao of
it. The Hlide had broken nearly 1,900
feet from the axlB of tho canal, and
covered an area of 47 acres. l^aHt fall
tho engineers were congratulating
themselves on having tho cockroach
stopped, but in January it started
moving again, and nearly covered tho
bottom of the cut.
"What is going to bo tho cost of
that slido to tho United States?" I
asked Colonel Ooethals as wo stood at*
the edgo of tho Culebra cut and look
ed across the chasm to whero tho
steam shovels and hundreds yf men
wei'o ? 1 aborting ? to TFnTOVe die vast
mass of earth and rock.
"Well," tho chief engineer replied, "our
estimate is that by tho time it is all
cleared up it will havo required the
expenditure of about $5,000,000 more
than the cut would havo cost if tho
slide had not occurred. It is still mov
ing. and has broken so far back that
Giant Steam Shovel.
now we are shoveling the crest aWay
from the canal in order to relievo the
pressure from above. Before the move
ment in January began the excavation
in the cut at that point had been
carried to within 15 feet of the canal
bottom. Digging out that 15 feet of
material removed the support of the
Cucaracha, and down It came. If we
could have turned in tho water and
taken out the 15 feet with dredges, I
think the pressure of tho water would
have done much to prevent the slide."
"What of the future?" I asked. "Is
thero any danger of slides occurring
alter tho canal is opened?"
"Absolutely none, I believe," he an
swered. "When the excavating and
dynamiting have ceased and tho war
ter is in, it will bo quite safe. We
have tho slides and breaks mapped
out as far back as there is any Indi
cation of their extending, and are
wording back to those lines. It is
merely a matter of persistency hnd pa
tience."
"When will the water be lot into
tho cut?"
In October," replied Colonel Goe
thals-. "Hut there will bo no celebra
tion over tho event- That one In Jan
uary, 1915, is giving us enough worry,
and wo don't forget tho premature and
ridiculous celebration by Ferdinand do
Lesseps many years ago. Wo will Just
turn tho water in ? that's all. Then we
can coinpleto tho excavation there
with suction dredges, which will do
the work cheaply and rapidly."
"And when will boats bo passing
through the canal?"
"That I cannot say, but the sooner
the better, for the operating crewa
must be properly trained before that
January celebration. I wouldn't have
an accident occur Tor anything. If we
cannot have commercial vessels going
through boforr ?lv h. I f'vtH ask the
?Overnm?nt. \o t " 1 n | voxels
through, so the o -y pan
get the exofi A.:/;.. ^ , Ji ^vant
to firo tho'cafuil opehefl to com merce
uh noon an possible, for U is revenue ,
I am after." ?
Another (jay I moot! with Coj. I). I).
(laUlard, Hit' engineer' of fho central
<1 i v i h ion . outside 1 1 its office -in Kmpiio,
and watched his army laboring in tho
I cut, tho completion of which bus
'boon his biggest tank ami greatest
! glory. Klght at our foot a big area
had Himk down 70 foot in a uight, and
' If there had not been warnings of tho
I break a wing of tho colonel's oftl oh
building would have gone down with
| it. "Wo had JtiHt tiino to remove that
wing," Bald ho, "and my olllco force la
I rathor nervous now, for there aro
throe big cracks under the main build
| ing. I expect It, too, w-ill havo to bo
torn down very soon.
j "These slides used to make us ratli
i er despondent, for It seemed as If they
never would atop, but tho progress
we are making this year has cheered
up the operating forces again, and
wo con see the end of the task. The
.slide and the break are quite differ
ent. in tho former tho earth slides
at an angle down a Bloplng face of
rock, and in the latter tho mass sinks
straight down and at tho bottom
bulges out into tho channel.. Along
both sides of the cut you can see nu
merous small slides and breaks. TIiobo
are in pockets in tho rock wall, and,
i annoying as they are, they only need
I cleanliiK out. The ('nymnc'lHt wtitrtnd
i as a slide and now it is both a slide
and a break. .
| "incidentally, that cut should bo a
; great place for geologists. I have
found In It every kind of rock except
granite, and many interesting fossils
and petrification havo been dlscover
' ed there. In 0110 stratum through
( which wo cut there, were found a great
i number of teeth of prehistoric varie
ties of sharks."
| "What is your opinion concerning
? the ditto when the canal will ho ready
' for commerce?" I asked.
"If I had my say," said tho colonel
emphatically, "not a commercial ves
sel would be allowed in the canal un
til it is absolutely complete down to
tho smallest 'detail. In some of the
many safety devices were not in op-,
oration and an accident should result,
tho canal would get a black eye from
which it might not recover for a long
time. Officially, the time for the com
pletion of the canal is still January
1, 1915. It may be done before that
date, but in March of this year there
was still about $50,000,000 worth of
.work ahead of us.
"Wo who havo been digging tho
canal and are still here in positions of
responsibility^! mean tho members
of the Isthmian canal commission ?
aro rather fearful concerning that part
of the Adamson *bill which permits
tho president to dissolve the commis
sion whenever in his judgment the
canal is near enough to completion.
Wo feel that It would be extremely
unjust not to allow ns to remain 'on
the job' until after the grand formal
opening in January, 11)15. It would bo
much like permitting a boy to com
plete his university course, and then
taking him homo before ho receives
his diploma."
And then Colonel C.aillard said somo
things about Mr. Taft'a efforts to put
into effect that clauso last January,
?which must have made tho ex-presi
dent's ears tingle a bit.
"Tho Culebra cut Is like a three-ring
circus. I don't know which way to
look, ' said one visitor to tho zono.
It is indeed a scene of wonderful ac
tivity Giant steam shovels are scat
tered through it, scooping up enor
mous masses of rock and earth; on
half a dozen tracks on as many dif
ferent levels snorting and puffing loco
motives are swiftly drawing loaded or
empty dirt trains; along the ledges
are batteries of steam and com
pressed air drills, making holes for
dynamite; Bttddenly there Is a toot
tooting of a steam "whistle, a hundred
men scurry to shelter, and a dynamite
blast (ills the air with sound and dirt
and rocks.
Watching the steam shovels is a fa
vorite- occupation of visitors who ven
ture down into the Culebra cut. They
seem almost human, aiKl do a vast
amount of work. Their dippers hold
five cubic yards of material, weigh
ing on an average a litilo more than
three tons. This spoil Is emptied into
cars of several kinds. Flat cars with
one high side are unloaded by plows
that are drawn the length of the train
by cahJes upon a winding drum. Tho
others are dump ^arfl.-the largest of"
which are operated by compressed air
from the locomotive. The trains haul
the spoil from the cut to dumping
grounds, which on an average are
about 12 miles distant. Some 18,000.
000 cubic yards of this material was
used as filling for the lonjt breakwa
ter at the Pacific entrance.
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