The Panama Canal: Readings on Its HistorySCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection. |
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Page 57
... transit was in operation some 20,000 persons used it annually , includ- ing W. T. Sherman , who took this route to California , whereas in 1852 U. S. Grant made a grief - laden crossing of Panama with a company of troops and was ...
... transit was in operation some 20,000 persons used it annually , includ- ing W. T. Sherman , who took this route to California , whereas in 1852 U. S. Grant made a grief - laden crossing of Panama with a company of troops and was ...
Page 89
... transit . By 1902 , however , Emory R. Johnson found that “ anything like a united opposition to the canal project on the part of railway officials " had ceased sometime before . Apparently the railway officials had come to believe , as ...
... transit . By 1902 , however , Emory R. Johnson found that “ anything like a united opposition to the canal project on the part of railway officials " had ceased sometime before . Apparently the railway officials had come to believe , as ...
Page 137
... transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon any modes of communication that now exist , or that may be hereafter constructed , shall be open and free to the Government and citizens of the United States . And in order to secure to ...
... transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon any modes of communication that now exist , or that may be hereafter constructed , shall be open and free to the Government and citizens of the United States . And in order to secure to ...
Contents
RUDOLPH J TAUSSIG | 1 |
No Fortifications for the Panama Canal Reprinted from American Review of Reviews | 13 |
FESSENDEN N OTIS | 25 |
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