N WHEN BEND PARK IS SOLD OUT 1 ' Hi - ! ' you will regret you did not select your home site while you could have your choice at .. present prices and terms. Bend Park ., , will always be the best residence portion of the city, because , - , within its boundaries is "" . the prettiest property in the city, it is admirably platted with . wide streets and large lots. Beautiful view of the perpetually snow covered mountains, and restricted to HOMES ONLY Bend Park Company R. G. SHRADER, Local Agent, Bend, Oregon. General Offices, 800-801 Empire Building, Senttle, Wash. or, Paulsen Bldg., Spokane, Wash. or, Portland Hotel, Portland, Oregon, RE BIG JOBS W ON CANAL LOCKS, DAM AND CUT DESCRIBED Paying 1'nnnmn Hills Mho Import ant Ben Iicrel l'lqn Tried and abandoned Method of Con structlon Marrels of Ingenuity Dr GEOItGE PALMER PUTNAM. The "big Jolts" on the Panama Canal, concerning which this letter U scheduled to deal, are many. The clrll administration Itself is a colos sal and unique task, for the Canal Commission has an army of some 30,000 workers red their families and dependents to govern, as wc'l i too Canal Zone territory, which with Its Hi square miles, makes a very fair sired state for any body to look after. The chlot engineering jobs that stand out as bigger and more funda mentally important, and are most picturesque, are the locks, the Qatun Dam and Culebra Cut. In addition there are lesser cuts, smaller dams, breakwaters, harbors, and a multi tude of bis Jobs worthy of Interest and admiration. Of course tbo really biggest Job of all, the planning and working put of the intricate details, was done years ago; at least, the greatest part of all that Is an accomplishment of the past. Another all-important task Is paying for the ditch; the American tax payers have done that, to the tune of about 1370,000,000. Btlll another "big Job" is the sani tation of tho isthmus; that will be treated In the sixth Bullotln article. Sea Level Canal First. When tho French undertook to dig tho canal back In the eighties, their first Intention was to construct ft sea level waterway. That is, their vnuliucra thought they r.ttjd put thniutii a ditch from on 9 rre&n to the other at sea level, without tho necessity pf making locks. Defore they Anally quit, bankrupt, they had modified the plan and decided to use locks, for as tho work progressed they found that the task of digging A ditchdeep enough to pass on grade through the hills of tho Isthmus was enormously cxpcnslvo and practically Impossible. When tho United Statos took hold In 1901, tbcro was somo talk of mak ing our enterprise sea lovol. This, however, was abandoned. Klx Double Iocks. Thcro will be six doublo locks In tho Canal, three lifts and three to lower vessels passing through, tho maximum lift and lower being 86 feet The fact that they aro "doublo" means that each "step" Is In dupli cate, so to speak, so that vessels may go up and down through tho samo series simultaneously. Tho lock chambers aro 1000 feet long and 110 feet wide, with walls and floors of concrete, and masslvo mltorlng steel gates at each end. Tho sldo walls are CO feet thick at tho floor," thence narrowing upward, In stops, to an eight foot thickness at the 85 foot high top. Tho mlddlo wall, which separates the two locks of the samo flight, Is 00 feet thick. In tho mlddlo wall, and In tho sldo walls and under the floors, aro great culverts through which the water will tie let Into and drained from the lock chambers, as It Is desired to ralso or lowor ships In them. A great saving In water is effected by transferrin!; it from one lock in a flight to Its mate; that Is, when one lock Is drained, and a vessel Is to bo raised in it to the higher level, the water which Is being lowered In the adjoining chamber will bo let Into tho empty chamber, thus using the same water for a double work. Electricity Does Work. The lock gates are seven feet thick and of steel and are 65 feet long and from 47 to 82 feet high. They weigh from 300 to 600 tons each, and will be operated with elec tric power generated by turbines from tho waters of Gatun Lake. As soon as a ship entors the lock approaches It will no longer use Its own engines but w)ll bo taken charge of by four electric locomotives, which operate on tracks beside the lock walls. These tow It Into position and Into and from the chambers, two acting as tows and two as brakes to hold back as occasion demands. A hint of tho enormity of tho threo double locks at Gatun Is contained In the fact that approximately 4,200, 000 cublo yards of concrote, requir ing about the same number of barrels of cemont, will be used In that con struction alone, Gatun Pom Hugo. Tbo extent of the great Gatun Dam and Jta Importance In the Canal plan, were touched upon In the last article. Tbo dam, tho reader will remem ber. Is about 1 miles long, and Impounds a lake over, which steam ers will travel for some SCfmiles on their trans-Isthmian Trip, at' a lerol 85 feet atiavo each ocean. Thcro Is nothing striking about tho dam but lis great slzo. It has no peculiar engineering features, but Is simply a hugo hill Into which some 20.000,000 cubic yards of material will havo been dumped by tbo tlmo it Is completed, next year. Tho way they build tho dam Is simple At Its base It Is about half a mile wide. On each edgo "toes" of rock were dumped, making heavy sustaining walls, so to speak, which gradually slopo inward toward the center as they wero built upward. Dotwoon these walls was pumped mud by suction dredges. l-riKTit Ditch In World. Of all tho features of the Canal, Culebra Cut Is probably tbo most Im pressive. Tho Cutebra Cut Is tho ditch which Is being dug through tho continental divide, and Is longer and deeper than auy ditch that over has been dug. It is approximately nine miles long, and for sovoral miles has an average depth of more than 280 feet, while a maximum depth of 320 feet Is reached In sovoral places. The amount of material that Is to be oxcavatod from Culebra Cut totals about 186,000,000 cubic yards. Previous to tho advent of the Americans tho French company had done a lot of excavating, shout 29,. 000,000 yards of which has proved useful to us. Digging the Cut has been chiefly a matter of persistency. The biggest problem has been to trapiport the dirt and rock from tho stoara shovels to dumping places. John F. Stevens made his most Important mark at Panama by solving this problem, which was essentially a railroader's work. Today there are more' than 200 miles of track In the Cut, upon which dirt trains operate contin uously, hustling long, strings of load ed flat cars from tho shovels out of the Cut at each end. Much of the material has gqno Into Gatun Dam, 26 miles away, and much Into the breakwaters on the Pacific side, some dozon miles distant. Devices re Clever. Now, howovcr, the majority of tho "spoils," as thoy call tho excavated material, Is simply used for genoral fills of swamps and low lands. A clever device that saves much labor in the unloading of tho flat cars is an automatic shovel which is pulled by a cablo tbo length of tbo train of "flats," spilling from them all the dirt as it s drawn up to tbo engine by a spool. It Is estimated that on each train' four hours tlmo Is saved over band labor and about $80. Instead of shifting track by hand there Is a mechanical track shifter, which picks the construction track up bodily, and swings It, ties and all, to tho tloatroil position, Tilts, of courso, Is chiefly on big nils, whorO tho dirt la bolng constantly worked to one sldo. In cunnoQtlon wlththo oxcnvntlon In tho Cut It Is chnrncterlstlo of the gonoral olllolonoy to nolo that ovory loaded car runs down hilt; nil curs on tho Paclflo sldo of tho grndo divide go toward tho Pacific, and nil on tho Atlnntlo sldo toward tho Atlantic. Canal Army Next Week. Hut tho most Interesting feature of tho Canal Is not tho construction work, but the workers. In noxt week's Hullotlu tho life of tho "tuon on tho Job" will bo described. High Quality T.a. A verdict in favor or hlah quality tea as a harmless drink Is given by the London Lancet. It Is potuted out that when cofff ln and tannin are In a stnte of combination the harmful sttrin- gent qnallttts of the tnnnln disappear and the bitter taste of free caffeine Is not perceptible. Teas of high quality yield, as a rule, a stmpl Infusion' of caffeine Unnnt. not of caffeine or of tannin, and such teas roust be regard td as the roost desirable from a phys iological point of view. Kxcctslve In fusion, It is stated, will spoil n good tea, but eren a short infusion of a bad tea may be as objectionable as an excessive Infusion of good tea. On physiological grounds, therefore, the consumer of high quality teas runs teas risk of digestive disturbances pro vided the tea Is made properly. UKWAIU). Fifty dollars will bo pnld for ovl donee loading to tho conviction of any person or persona placing rooks or other obstructions In tho nmlii cnnnl or any of tho laterals of tlio Deschutes lleclamalton and Irriga tion Company, gouurnlly known nn tho Bwnlloy Ditch. 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