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180 white gold employes, at which meals are served for 30 cents each; 18 messes for European laborers, who pay 40 cents per ration of three meals, and 17 kitchens for West. Indian laborers, who are charged 30 cents per ration of three THE MaRINE REVIEW able goods being conveyed in refriger- ated cars. Re-located Panama Railroad. The new, or relocated line of the Panama railroad is 46.2 miles long, or May, 1910 4 there are several large fills, and the maximum elevation of the line js reached, 110 ft. above mean sea level, Through Culebra Cut, the road will run on a berm on the east side, 10 ft. above the surface of the water. From the : ome eon, ; - g é ie --F-- ~~ t * i | &; 8 3| | wi > a ® $| i Length of Culebra Cut, 9 miles, 4h %. Useful excavation by french . .« | See o Excavation by Americans up to January 1./H0 .« 3! < Excavation remaining on January 1, 1910. . ~ . 18,646,000 cubic yards. . 4,532,000 cubic yords, 36,510,284 cubic yards. mee MS UZ -~ CULEBRA CUT --EROSS SECTION-- French at Ly yg pega ye} --STATION ~1097- Sn ies Temerning te Highest point of excavation, north side, $34 feet above sea level, = SS ES Highest point, south side, 4/0 feet above sea level Guar Soares = Sa eee Highest point on center line, 312 feet above sea level, (eer See ae | -- heching femard Panama -- « 0 sco Sto ze &40 to (eo fe to do & fo so wo 1008 too ite 780 ze 360 seo 0. 480 om she eo oe meals. There are served monthly in the about 1 mile shorter than the old line. south end of Culebra Cut, at Paraiso, hotels for white gold employes, 188,000 From Colon to Mindi, 4.17 miles, and jt will run practically parallel with the meals; in the messes, 269,000 meals; from Corozal to Panama, 2.83 miles, Celta Pana 'The maximum er | and in the kitchens, 180,000 meals. The supplies for one month cost about $90,- 000; labor and other expenses, $21,000. The monthly receipts, exclusive of the the old location is used, but the remain- ing 36 miles are new road. From Mindi to Gatun, the railroad runs in general parallel to the canal, and the maximum between Gatun and Panama is 0.45 per cent, and the maximum curvature is 6 degrees. Where the railroad crosses Ff - Gene) nee ed (ieee Beaten accent ay cle tes ster taste ted Cross SECTION OF LocK CHAMBER AND WALLS oF Locks. A, passageway for operators; H, lateral culvert. revenue from the Hotel Tivoli at An- con, amount to $112,000. A cold storage and ice making plant, bakery, coffee roaster, ice cream factory, and similar plants, and a laundry, are operated at Cristobal, and warehouses are maintained there near the wharves, at which goods from the States are de- livered. Every morning a supply train takes ice and foodstuffs to the towns along the line of the canal, the perish- B. gallery fer electric wire; C, drainage gallery; lock floors and alternate with those from side walls; D, culvert oa of the line, 114 per cent, is in this stretch, where the cone from nearly mean sea level to 95 ft. above is made. At Gatun, the road leaves the vicinity of the canal and runs east along the valley of the Gatun river to a point about 4%4 miles from the center line of the canal, where it turns southward again, and skirts the east shore of Gatun Lake to the beginning of Culebra Cut, at Bas Obispo. In this section, in center F, wells opening from internal culvert into lock chamber; G, culverts run under the E, culverts in side walls; wall; these a bascule steel bridge is to be erected, and a steel girder bridge, %4 mile long with a 200-ft. truss channel across. the. Chagres Smaller streams are crossed on concrete culverts. Near Miraflores, a tunnel 736 ft. long has been built through a hill. The cost of the new line is estimated at $/- 225,000. the Gatun river, span, is in use fiver - at Gamboa,