Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . VIEW OF BOCAS DEL TORO oper of the possibilities of the land he inhabits. TheSpanish infusion brought to the native populationno qualities of energy, of well-directed effort, of thelaborious determination to build up a new and thriv-ing ideals rundirectly counter tothose involved in em-pire building. Suchenergy, such deter-mination as built upour great north-west and is build-ing in British Co-lumbia the greatestagricultural em-pire in the world,despite sevenmonths annually ofdrifting snow andfrozen ground,would make of thePan

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Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . VIEW OF BOCAS DEL TORO oper of the possibilities of the land he inhabits. TheSpanish infusion brought to the native populationno qualities of energy, of well-directed effort, of thelaborious determination to build up a new and thriv-ing ideals rundirectly counter tothose involved in em-pire building. Suchenergy, such deter-mination as built upour great north-west and is build-ing in British Co-lumbia the greatestagricultural em-pire in the world,despite sevenmonths annually ofdrifting snow andfrozen ground,would make of thePanama savannasand valleys the gar-den spot of theworld. That willnever be accom-plished by thePhoto oj, crucMow prcscnt agrarian VISTA ON THE RIG GRANDE populatiou, but it is

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