Investigation of Panama Canal Matters: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Senate Resolution Adopted January 9, 1906, Providing for an Investigation of Matters Relating to the Panama Canal, Etc.[Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907], Volumul 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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You understand that the greatest use for lumber there , then and now , is for building quarters and houses . A comparatively small amount is needed for anything else-that is , large lumber , whereas apparently in the shipment of this ...
You understand that the greatest use for lumber there , then and now , is for building quarters and houses . A comparatively small amount is needed for anything else-that is , large lumber , whereas apparently in the shipment of this ...
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... taking the tracks out of the mud , laying new rails , putting in new ties , and ballasting the road ; and I started grading other tracks and laying them with heavier rails — 70 - pound rails , new rails and building new tracks .
... taking the tracks out of the mud , laying new rails , putting in new ties , and ballasting the road ; and I started grading other tracks and laying them with heavier rails — 70 - pound rails , new rails and building new tracks .
Pagina 28
Then this system of roads which you are building into the Culebra cut is auxiliary to the main road ? Mr. STEVENS . Yes , sir . Senator Kxox . And that makes the necessity for a perfected equipment all the greater ? Mr. STEVENS .
Then this system of roads which you are building into the Culebra cut is auxiliary to the main road ? Mr. STEVENS . Yes , sir . Senator Kxox . And that makes the necessity for a perfected equipment all the greater ? Mr. STEVENS .
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Our people had evidently realized that and they had commenced building a new wooden dock there . But owing to a delay in the delivery ... The same condition prevailed at Cristobal , or Colon , where they had started to build two docks .
Our people had evidently realized that and they had commenced building a new wooden dock there . But owing to a delay in the delivery ... The same condition prevailed at Cristobal , or Colon , where they had started to build two docks .
Pagina 41
If we do not control quarantine in respect of the Isthmus we are gone up on the canal building , if any chance comes along in the way of cholera , bubonic plague , yellow fever , or any other of those diseases .
If we do not control quarantine in respect of the Isthmus we are gone up on the canal building , if any chance comes along in the way of cholera , bubonic plague , yellow fever , or any other of those diseases .
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