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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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tion done by the French, useful to our canal,at 29,709,000 cubic yards worth $25,389,000. Thatby no means represented all their work, for our shift in the line of the canal made much of theirexcavation valueless. Between Gold Hill and Con-tractors Hill in the Culebra Cut, where our strugglewith the obstinate resistance of nature has beenfiercest, the French cut down 161 feet, all of itserviceable to us. Their surveys and plats are inval-uable, and their machinery, which tourists seeingsome pieces abandoned to the jungle condemn inthe lump, has been of substantial value to us bothfor use and for sale. But under the conditions as they found them, theFrench could never have completed the canal. Onlya government could be equal to that task. Presi-dent Roosevelt found to his own satisfaction atleast that neither private contract nor civilian man-agement was adequate. Most emphatically, if thedesire for profit was to be the sole animating forcethe canal could never be built at all. When the
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FILTH THAT WOULD DRIVE A BERKSHIRE FROM HIS STYA typical scene in the negro quarters of Colon during the period of French activity in Panama 122 PANAMA AND THE CANAL

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