Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Canal Zone |
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... Colon , year 1913 . 149 Monthly evaporation , Canal Zone , years 1913. 1914 , and averages_ Tidal conditions , year 1913__ 150 150 Seismograph records , Ancon , fiscal year__ 150 Hydrography 154 General 154 Gatun 155 Gamboa 156 ...
... Colon , year 1913 . 149 Monthly evaporation , Canal Zone , years 1913. 1914 , and averages_ Tidal conditions , year 1913__ 150 150 Seismograph records , Ancon , fiscal year__ 150 Hydrography 154 General 154 Gatun 155 Gamboa 156 ...
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... Colon radio station ----- Balboa radio station ---- . Lock control houses__ Ancon commissary Force 321 321 321 322 322 APPENDIX G. Report of auditor , accounting department_ . 323 Organization ----- 323 Permanent accounting system ...
... Colon radio station ----- Balboa radio station ---- . Lock control houses__ Ancon commissary Force 321 321 321 322 322 APPENDIX G. Report of auditor , accounting department_ . 323 Organization ----- 323 Permanent accounting system ...
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... Colon and Panama by the division of public works , red by the construction divisions , as well as that performed in A 1913 , forming the division of municipal engineering , under artment of civil administration , was consolidated ...
... Colon and Panama by the division of public works , red by the construction divisions , as well as that performed in A 1913 , forming the division of municipal engineering , under artment of civil administration , was consolidated ...
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... Colon , and with land sanitation in the Canal Zone and sanita matters in the terminal cities in conformity with the canal trea between the United States and the Republie of Panama , togeth with all matters relating to hospitals and ...
... Colon , and with land sanitation in the Canal Zone and sanita matters in the terminal cities in conformity with the canal trea between the United States and the Republie of Panama , togeth with all matters relating to hospitals and ...
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... Colon Darien , a distance of 25.27 miles ; the southern district embraces imilar work from Darien to Balboa , including the city of Panama , a stance of 22.34 miles ; the waterworks for the southern end of The Panama Canal embrace the ...
... Colon Darien , a distance of 25.27 miles ; the southern district embraces imilar work from Darien to Balboa , including the city of Panama , a stance of 22.34 miles ; the waterworks for the southern end of The Panama Canal embrace the ...
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amount Ancon April August average Balboa shops breakwater bridge buildings cable caissons Canal Zone cent Chagres River chamber charge coaling plant Coco Solo Colon completed concrete connection construction contract cranes Cristobal cubic yards Cucaracha slide Culebra Cut culvert December division cost dredging Dry Dock dump electrical elevation engineer equipment erection excavation February filling fiscal Gamboa gates Gatun Lake inches installation Isthmus January July June 18 June 30 linear feet lock-control lockage locomotives machines March material mechanical division Miraflores Lake Miraflores Locks months motors Mount Hope November October operation Panama Canal Panama Railroad Paraiso Pedro Miguel Locks piers plate pontoon Porto Bello pump station Quay wall rising-stem sewer side Sosa Hill spillway steel storage substation supply switchboard terminal tion tons Toro Point towing trestle trusses unloading upper lock valves velocity vessels volt ampere watt wharf yards of earth
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Page 551 - States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ******* "SEC. 6. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of
Page 598 - By virtue of authority vested in me by the Act approved April 6, 1914, entitled "An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes," a committee of six members is hereby created to arrange and provide suitable ceremonies for the
Page 580 - virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby enact the following order, creating a permanent organization for the Panama Canal, under the Act of Congress "To provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone,
Page 287 - when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the President may direct, and without advertising in such classes of cases as may be authorized by him.
Page 569 - anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space, or cubical contents of each part if the ship is measured in parts under the tonnage deck. The tonnage of this volume is obtained
Page 569 - 2; to the sum of these products add the first and last breadths; multiply the whole sum by one-third of the common interval between the breadths, and the result will give in superficial feet the mean horizontal area of the space; measure the mean height of the space, and multiply
Page 569 - of the vessel. This rule for measuring the depth of the hold applies to double-bottom ships having top of double bottom not horizontal. If the depth at the midship division of the length does not exceed 16 feet, divide each depth into 5 equal parts; then measure the inside horizontal breadth at each of the four
Page 569 - of the stem to the lining on the timbers at the stern, and divide the length into the same number of equal parts into which the length of the tonnage deck is divided, as above directed ; measure (also at the middle of its height) the
Page 569 - of division, and also at the upper point of the depth; number them from above, as before; multiply the second, fourth, and sixth by 4, and the third and fifth by 2; add these products together, and to the sum add the first breadth and the seventh.
Page 556 - the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: « * * * * * * BELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, $20,000. ***«**• Approved, June 30, 1914.