Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Canal Zone |
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... lower operating gates at Mira- flores Locks____ . 159 Monthly discharge - Chagres River _‒‒ 161 Monthly maximum , minimum , and mean elevations , Chagres River and Gatun and Miraflores Lakes .. 162 Principal freshets_____ 163 Data on ...
... lower operating gates at Mira- flores Locks____ . 159 Monthly discharge - Chagres River _‒‒ 161 Monthly maximum , minimum , and mean elevations , Chagres River and Gatun and Miraflores Lakes .. 162 Principal freshets_____ 163 Data on ...
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... lower west chamber , lock filling . Looking south . 4 Operation of Miraflores Locks . lock filling . Looking south . 5. Operation of Gatun Locks . June 18 , 1914 . S. S. Santa Clara in upper west chamber , June 18 , 1914 . East ...
... lower west chamber , lock filling . Looking south . 4 Operation of Miraflores Locks . lock filling . Looking south . 5. Operation of Gatun Locks . June 18 , 1914 . S. S. Santa Clara in upper west chamber , June 18 , 1914 . East ...
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... lower operating 12 Hydrographs showing surge in Culebra Cut at pontoon bridge on locking water at Pedro Miguel Lock . APPENDIX B. Plate [ Report of engineer of terminal construction . ] Pacific terminals . Balboa Plain and Balboa ...
... lower operating 12 Hydrographs showing surge in Culebra Cut at pontoon bridge on locking water at Pedro Miguel Lock . APPENDIX B. Plate [ Report of engineer of terminal construction . ] Pacific terminals . Balboa Plain and Balboa ...
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... ( lower shovels working on bottom of canal ) . June 16 , 1913 . 42. Culebra Cut , looking south from east bank half way between Culebra and Empire . June , 1918 . Plate . Culebra Cut , Culebra . Looking north from LIST OF ILLUFTRATIONE .
... ( lower shovels working on bottom of canal ) . June 16 , 1913 . 42. Culebra Cut , looking south from east bank half way between Culebra and Empire . June , 1918 . Plate . Culebra Cut , Culebra . Looking north from LIST OF ILLUFTRATIONE .
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... Lower part of Cucaracha slide on right . August 18 , 1913 . EL Culebra Cut . Cucaracha slide , from west bank south of Contractors Hill . Looking north . October 16 , 1913 . 2 Culebra Cut , Culebra . Blasting a channel through Cucaracha ...
... Lower part of Cucaracha slide on right . August 18 , 1913 . EL Culebra Cut . Cucaracha slide , from west bank south of Contractors Hill . Looking north . October 16 , 1913 . 2 Culebra Cut , Culebra . Blasting a channel through Cucaracha ...
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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.