To Raise Panama Canal Dikes.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 6, 1912:
    PANAMA, Oct. 5.— It has been found advisable to raise the height of the dikes at Gamboa from seventy-three feet, as originally planned, to seventy-eight feet two inches, in order to protect the Culebra cut of the Panama Canal against inundation by the Chagres River in consequence of the rise of the waters of Gatun Lake. The dike across the channel is also to be widened to forty feet.