Investigation of Panama Canal Matters: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Senate Resolution Adopted January 9, 1906, Providing for an Investigation of Matters Relating to the Panama Canal, Etc. [Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907], Svazek 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 |
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Strana 1952
... question may be thus stated : Is it either safe or wise to authorize the building of a dam 13 miles long to retain a head of water of 85 feet across an alluvial valley similar to the valley of the Chagres at Gatun , in which exist ...
... question may be thus stated : Is it either safe or wise to authorize the building of a dam 13 miles long to retain a head of water of 85 feet across an alluvial valley similar to the valley of the Chagres at Gatun , in which exist ...
Strana 1953
... question will naturally arise in doing the work by contract whether there are any engineering organizations competent to enter into such a contract and to construct a work of this magnitude , and such a question must be answered in the ...
... question will naturally arise in doing the work by contract whether there are any engineering organizations competent to enter into such a contract and to construct a work of this magnitude , and such a question must be answered in the ...
Strana 1958
... question , shut off the percolation or flow of water underneath your dam . Senator TALIAFERRO . That is , this curtain has no part whatever in the foundation except to prevent an underflow of water ? Mr. WALLACE . That is it , exactly ...
... question , shut off the percolation or flow of water underneath your dam . Senator TALIAFERRO . That is , this curtain has no part whatever in the foundation except to prevent an underflow of water ? Mr. WALLACE . That is it , exactly ...
Strana 1959
... question of judgment and opinion . You can build an earthen dam in Massachusetts or New York or Colorado that will stand a head of 85 feet of water , and it is no criterion at all that the same dam at Gatun or in South Africa or at any ...
... question of judgment and opinion . You can build an earthen dam in Massachusetts or New York or Colorado that will stand a head of 85 feet of water , and it is no criterion at all that the same dam at Gatun or in South Africa or at any ...
Strana 1961
... question , and you can answer it or not , as you see fit . Eliminating the two gorges there , supposing that the material in those gorges was the same as that on either side of it , and that you have , therefore , for the full length of ...
... question , and you can answer it or not , as you see fit . Eliminating the two gorges there , supposing that the material in those gorges was the same as that on either side of it , and that you have , therefore , for the full length of ...
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Ancon appointed Article authority Boca Bohio building Canal Zone cent Chagres River CHAIRMAN charge chief engineer city of Panama Colonel ERNST committee Congress construction cost Cristobal Cromwell cubic Culebra DAVIS dredging duties employees excavation executive exercise feet French Gamboa Gatun Gatun dam Government governor HAINS harbor Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama June La Boca laborers land letter lock canal material matter ment miles Miraflores necessary Obispo operation Pacific Panama and Colon Panama Canal Company Panama Railroad Company pipe line ports President question rates Republic of Panama sanitary sea-level canal Secretary of War Secretary TAFT Senator ANKENY Senator DRYDEN Senator HOPKINS Senator KITTREDGE Senator MORGAN Senator SIMMONS Senator TALIAFERRO ship Shonts shovels silver Suez supplies territory tion track treaty United vessels WALLACE Washington width