. Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal. d the competition of foreign speculators, 36 PANAMA PICTURES. who were temporarily lured into the mar-ket, until they had lost sufficient money init to induce them, finally, to leave the fieldto those who had given the first impetus tothe trade. The banana may be said to bethe chief product exported from the Isth-mus. BOHIO. From a Canal standpoint, there is littleto be said about this Station at the presentwriting. From a Rail Road sense, its his-tory dates as far back as the early days ofconstruction, when its, seemingly, ex
. Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal. d the competition of foreign speculators, 36 PANAMA PICTURES. who were temporarily lured into the mar-ket, until they had lost sufficient money init to induce them, finally, to leave the fieldto those who had given the first impetus tothe trade. The banana may be said to bethe chief product exported from the Isth-mus. BOHIO. From a Canal standpoint, there is littleto be said about this Station at the presentwriting. From a Rail Road sense, its his-tory dates as far back as the early days ofconstruction, when its, seemingly, exhaust-less quarry furnished the necessary rock forthe ballasting of the forty-seven miles ofroad-bed w^liich stretches between Colon andPanama. It was from this same quarry,too, that the stones were hewn for the con-struction of that beautiful edifice, on theBeach, known as ^^Christ Church, whichwas most shamefully desecrated in the Pres-tan Year of 1885, when it was convertedinto a temporary prison for the incarcera-tion of the offenders of tliat ever-mcnnorable.
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