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Title: Alaska and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Boyce, William Dickson, 1848-1929
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he task in itself has been of a mag-nitude that is diUicult to realize, and in addition there havebeen the influences of tropical conditions, of Government con-trol and of uncertain labor markets to deal with. For theefficient Goethals and those under him there is all honor. Themistakes that have been charged have been dwarfed by thesuccesses of the herculean undertaking, and in the history of COLONEL WILLIAM C. GORGAS, THE MAN WHO MADE THE CANAL ZONE SANITARY. 144 PANAMA CANAL ZONE AND REPUBLIC the Canals construction, we are glad to state, there is not thesmallest blot of proved corruption or graft, excepting in thecompany stores run by the Panama Railroad, which is ownedby the United States Government. At times as many as 45,000 men have been employed onthe Canal. The average number has been 40,000. It shouldbe kept in mind, too. that the work had to be carried on at adistance of two thc^usand miles from the base of supplies. When the Canal was officially opened, a little more than
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