ROCK DRILL (These machines bore a hole 30 feet deep in eight hours)
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ROCK DRILLS AT WORK IN THE CUT
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THE CUT, LOOKING NORTH FROM CULEBRA
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THE CUT, LOOKING SOUTH FROM CULEBRA
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FROM CULEBRA, LOOKING EAST TO DISTANT HILLS
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FROM CULEBRA, LOOKING EAST ACROSS THE CUT (Terraces formed by landslip are just visible behind the smoke of a distant steam shovel)
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FROM CULEBRA, LOOKING EAST TO GOLDEN HILL (Showing excavation in steps and ledges. Each ledge has carried a railway track)
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THE CUT AT CULEBRA, LOOKING NORTH (The scarped face of Golden Hill on the right. Taken April, 1908, in the then bottom of the cut, 120 feet above Canal bottom)
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GANG OF WEST INDIAN LABOURERS (Unloading spoil-train at Gatun)
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GANG OF SPANISH LABOURERS AT CULEBRA (Working in the sun in April, which is one of the hottest months, less than 10 degrees from the equator. The men are wearing European kit)
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STEAM SHOVEL EXCAVATING SOIL AT CULEBRA
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STEAM SHOVEL UNLOADING INTO A DIRT CAR
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STEAM SHOVEL NEAR END OF STROKE (The marks of the teeth made in a former stroke are visible on the right. Golden Hill, with the highest berm, or ledge, in the distance)
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STEAM SHOVEL, STROKE FINISHED, LOADED WITH SOIL
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STEAM SHOVEL AT CULEBRA
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SHOVEL-MEN AT CULEBRA
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SCREENED BUNGALOW, CHRISTOBAL, COLON
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SCREENED QUARTERS OF EMPLOYEES, CULEBRA
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READING ROOM, EMPLOYEES' CLUB, CULEBRA
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HALL OF EMPLOYEES' CLUB, CULEBRA
126
CUT SOUTH OF CULEBRA, LANDSLIP ON LEFT
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LOOKING NORTH, THE SCARPED FACE OF GOLDEN HILL ON THE RIGHT
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LOOKING NORTH FROM RAILWAY BRIDGE AT PARAISO
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ABANDONED FRENCH MACHINERY
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GANG OF EUROPEAN LABOURERS (IN 1907)
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A FORMER HOT-BED OF MALARIA, NOW DRAINED
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NEAR THE SITE OF MILAFLORES LOCKS
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LOOKING NORTH TO CULEBRA DIVIDE FROM ANCON HILL
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RIO GRANDE, NEAR LA BOCA
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RIO GRANDE, FROM ANCON HILL (Country north of that shown in the last photograph)
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LA BOCA, FROM ANCON HILL
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ANCON CEMETERY
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COMMISSION'S HOTEL AT ANCON
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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, ANCON
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VIEW FROM SPANISH FORT, PANAMA
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CATHEDRAL SQUARE, PANAMA
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PALACE OF PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
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OLD FLAT ARCH AT PANAMA (Adduced as evidence of comparative freedom of Panama from destructive earthquakes)
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MAP OF CANAL ZONE (Showing also profile of Canal, cross section of Culebra Cut, the borings below Gatun dam, and the cross section of Gatun dam as designed in April, 1908. The design of this dam, however, is still undergoing modifications)
AT the present moment the Canal Zone of the Isthmus of Panama is the most interesting place in the world. Here is gathered an army of 40,000 men engaged in the epoch-making work of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and here is the greatest collection of machinery ever massed for the accomplishment of one undertaking.
If the present rate of progress continue unchecked, the Canal, it is calculated, will be opened in 1915. Then will that Isthmus, which has hitherto been a barrier between two oceans but has failed to act as a bridge between two continents, be pierced by a waterway capable of floating the largest ships now built or building. Then will the Pacific coasts of the Americas be accessible from ports on both sides of the Atlantic without the necessity of a voyage by the Straits of Magellan. Then will the distance from New York to San Francisco be shortened by 8,400 and that from Liverpool by 6,000 miles; the distance from New York to South American ports will be shortened by an average of 5,000 and that from Liverpool to these ports by an average of 2,600 miles: then for the first time Yokohama on the north and Sydney on the south will be brought nearer to New York than to Liverpool or Antwerp, and then will New Orleans and the ports on the Mexican Gulf be brought nearer than New York, by sea, to San Francisco, South America
