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Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 7 (1899) (1899)

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have great commercial and strategic value—that is width of 1,500 feet, a minimum discharge estimated at stage line to the Pacific. The survey was for a water- universally admitted. 12,000 cubic feet per second, and a flood discharge which way with a depth throughout of 17 feet. In the canal The… … partial statement of the was to have been 1944 facts as shall enable the miles, and ‘its cost, includ- reader to judge for him- ing 15 per cent for con- self of the relative merits and demerits of the rival tingencies, was estimated at $31,538,319. by others as high as 150,000 cubic feet per…

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