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Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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expect.But we may proceed upon the well-established factthat no new route of swifter and cheaper transporta-tion ever failed to create a great business, and todevelop thriving communities along its route. Thisfact finds illustration in the building up of the suburbsand back country by the development of trolley lines,and, on a larger scale, the prodigious growth of ourPacific coast after the transcontinental railroads hadfought their way to every corner of that empire stillin the making. Much is uncertain about what thePanama Canal will do for the expansion of our tradeand influence, but the one thing that is certain isthat no sane man is likely to put the figures of in-crease and extension too high. More and more the exports of the United Statesare taking the form of manufactured goods. Theold times when we were the granary of the worldare passing away and the moment is not far distantwhen we shall produce barely enough for our rapidlyincreasing population. British Columbia is taking
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Dwto by Brown Bros. BIRD S-EYE VIEW OF MIRAFLORES LOCKAt the upper end of the lock the guide wall extends into Miraflores lake; the lower end opens into the tide-water Canal. 390 PANAMA AND THE CANAL up the task of feeding the world where we aredropping it. On the other hand, our manufacturingindustry is progressing with giant stridesand, while a few years ago our manufacturers were content with theirrigidly protected home market, they are now reachingout for the markets offoreign lands. Figures justissued show that in lo.years our exports of man-ufactured goods have in-creased 70 per cent. Thepossibilities of the Asiaticmarket, which the Canalbrings so much moreclosely to our doors, arealmost incalculable. For cot-ton goods alone China andIndia will afford a market vastlyexceeding any which is now open toour cotton mills, and if, as many hold,the Chinese shall themselves take upthe manufacture of the fleecy staple they will haveto turn to New England and Pennsylvania for their KALEVI

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