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By JUDSON C. WELLIVER
One of the striking evidences of
America's rapid rise toward commer
cial and industrial leadership of the
world. Is the Panama Canal, will al
most certainly handle more freight In
1*26 than will Suez. For several years
the two canals have been in a neck
and neck competition whose implica
tions are the more Interesting be
cause the Panama ditch is owned by
the American Government, and that
at Suez by the British Government,
Of course both Canals are open tc
the ships of all nations; and the
competition between them is not only
between the United States and Brit
ain. but in a larger and even more
significant view it is competition be
tween old world and new world
When the Panama Canal was open
ed In 1915, Suez was already transit
ing about 25,000.010 tons of freight
annually.
Almost nobody believed
Panama could ever attract anything
approaching such a volume. But dur
ing the war fear of German subma
rines In the Mediterannean caused
many vessels to take the Panama
route between the far east and Eu
ropean or American ports. This eave
Panama its Introduction and 1’ I.
not only held but c^atly increased
Its business since th:- war
In !.»23
Panama
transited
5037
vessels,
against 4621 tor Suez; Panama han
dled 25,160,000 cargo tons against 22.
770,000 for Suez. This was the first
year of Panama’s lead
A Close Race
The following year Suez barely ex
•ceeded Panama’s tonnage; and in
1925 comfortably held Its lead.
But
reports for 1926 to date indicate that
Suez Is losing, owing to Britain’s in
dustrial depression, while Panama is
doing better and is pretty certain to
resume the lead.
The present Suez Canal has been
In operation nearly sixty years, Pan
ama only eleven. Although few peo
ple except antiquarians know it, the
first canal at Suez was built more
than 3,000 years ago
It was in op
eratlon as early as B. C. 13S0; how
long before, is mere conjecture. Be
fore the Christian era began the ditch
had been built, destroyed, rebuilt,
silted up and built up again, time
after time.
When Alexander the
Great conquered Egypt the Ca
nal was one of the oldest of engi
neering works.
Between 1904 and 1915 the present
Panama Canal was constructed.
It
cost about *400.000,000, Suez about
one-fourth that sum.
But Suez Is a
simple, sea-level ditch across a sandy
plain; while Panama Is a lock canal,
the greater part of its length lying
85 feet above sea level, so that most
of the distance from ocean to ocean
is through an artificial freshwater
lake.
Early Prefits Unexpected
When Roosevelt started building
at Panama, neither he nor any other
prophet of optimism would have
dared suggest that within its first
decade the Canal would earn a profit.
Its chief justification concerned the
national defense, and the establish
ment of competition with the trans
continental railroads
Although both Canals are open to
shipping of all nations, British ves
sels constitute the majority of those
using Suez (55.8 per cent), while
American vessels are 54.5 per cent of
those using Panama
For 1*84, ships of 21 nations used]
omical to buy, and to operate.—Will soon have
to
Increase of Freight
via Panama
Route, Largely
Due to Oil Ship
ments, Indicates
Rise of United
States to Leader
ship of World’s
Commerce.
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terms. Triced
the Suez route, while 24 nations were
represented in the jnaritime carxvan
at Panama.
The World War was not the only
unexpected factor in bringing Pana
ma so quickly to equality with Suez,
nor the most Important.
The enor
mous increase in Panama traffic In
1923 was represented almost entirely
by petroleum and its products, mov
ing from California to the east coast
and Europe. In the year ended Tune
30, 1924, tolls aggregating 324,291,000
were collected, of which $9,071,000
was from tankers carrying petroleum.
An even more striking statement of
the matter is that for the same year
exactly 50 per cent of all ton lage
through the Canal was between the
two ocean fronts of the United
States; that is, 13,500.000 tons; and
of this, considerably over 9,001,000
tons, or more than two-thirds was pe
troleum.
It was of course chiefly
from California, en route to eastern
refineries.
In tl ? succeeding year
this petroleum movement fell oft
heavily; but for 1926 it is again in
creasing and the increase is likely to
continue for many years. Rut for the
petroleum traffic, "the Canal would
have shown a deficit in every yet.r of
its operation.
The enormous petroleum business
has been tn other ways advantai’ ous
io Panama
A constantly Increasing
proportion of maritime shipping now
adays uses oil fuel Oil-burning ships
reck routes on which they can most
cheaply buy oil; and because Cali
fornia oil can be put so cheaply Into
the bunkers of vessels passing
through the Panama ditch there
is a substantial inducement to
prefer this route.
This will in
creasingly favor Panama and mili
tate against Suez, as the number
of oil burners increases.
Moreover,
Panama’s advantage will still further
Increase as the enormous oil re
sources of Venezuela. Colombia, and
other
South
American countries
arc developed.
Great Service of Panama
If cheap petroleum has thus served
Panama so well, Panama in turn has
equally served the American motor
ist. who consumes most of the world’s
petroleum products For Panama has
brought the Pacific Coast petroleum
to the eastern market at costs which,
but for the Canal, would be vastly
greater.
Thus the Canal has given
the United States the cheapes. pe
troleum products In the world, and
helped build the automobile Industry
and our modern hit hway system.
Th1* mutually helpful relationship
betwe n the Cana' and the petroleum
users is the more Impressive when
one realizes that it was not even re
motely anticipated at the time Presi
dent Roosevelt started building the
Canal. So late, indeed, as 1910, when
'dmiral Evans wrote his articles
about the Canal and decided that it
conld not be profitable for several
decades at least, he based all his cal
culations on the probable cost of coal
for bunkering ships
He did not
dream that merchant marines were
on the verge of tho revolutionary
change from coal to oil. So he fig ired
that, as there is practically no bu tker
coal in the countries bordering on the
Pacific, that ocean could not com
pete, by way of Panama, for a great
ly increased share of shipping. The
oil development overturned the proph
ecies of Admiral Evans, and of all
ethers who had foreseen that fuel
problems would make Panama un
profitable.
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The Mountain Heart Rebekah club
will give a bazaar on Wedncsda. Oc
tober 27. It is to be a Hallo-. .’in
affair and there will be many tl inc
on sale suitable for Christmas -iff
There are to be booths for c ndy,
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urged to come and buy Chris mas.
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