Roosevelt Panama Canal Special Message to Congress
President Roosevelt details his November inspection of the Isthmus of Panama and the cities of Panama and Colon. He lauds French efforts, argues against high level or sea level canal, notes progress and challenges, and defends the canal commission amid criticism.
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Congress
Canal Zone
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Senate
House of Representates
Panama
Colon
United States
Culebra
Drigins
Anrai
Sanitation progress on the Panama Isthmus and Colon
Dr Gorgas reports on sanitation work across the canal zone and Colon. He notes extensive drainage, fumigation, and housing improvements reducing mosquito breeding and disease risk, with 6 000 white and 19 000 colored workers and varied nationalities among laborers, and significant sewering and street paving advancing in Colon and Cristobal.
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W. C. Gorgas
Marizine
Health Department
Col. Waring
New York
United States
Gorgas
Colon
Ies
Jackson Smith
Congress
Stevens
Panama
Mount Hope
Pennsylvania
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Panama Canal Progress Report from the Isthmus 1906
President's note praises rapid, careful work on the canal project. Workers, including 200 plus under Shanton, face housing hygiene and labor issues, with mixed views on immigration and labor quality. Advances in steam shovels and rail cars exceed earlier French methods, while contracts and governance evolve under Taft and Shonts. The author foresees eight years to completion and urges support for the effort.
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Colon
Jamaica
Culebra
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Panama
Effichairman
Shonts
Unm
Great Lakes
Pla
Orn Railroad
Pers
Taft
New York
Pacific
Atlantic
Hemisphere
Tropics
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West Indies
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Navy
White House
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Tivoli Hotel
Canal
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