Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . f the Carib-bean blacks who have workedso well on the Zone is yet tobe seen. It may be possiblethat because of this the fertilelands of Panama, or the sa-vannas so admirably fitted forgrazing, can only be utilizedby great corporations who willdo things on so great a scaleas to justify the importation of labor. Today the man who should take up alarge tract of land in the Chiriqui country with aview to tilling it would be risking disaster becauseof the uncertainty of the labor supply. Another obstacle in the way of foreign settlementof Panama has be
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . f the Carib-bean blacks who have workedso well on the Zone is yet tobe seen. It may be possiblethat because of this the fertilelands of Panama, or the sa-vannas so admirably fitted forgrazing, can only be utilizedby great corporations who willdo things on so great a scaleas to justify the importation of labor. Today the man who should take up alarge tract of land in the Chiriqui country with aview to tilling it would be risking disaster becauseof the uncertainty of the labor supply. Another obstacle in the way of foreign settlementof Panama has been the uncertainty of land surveyors seem to have been in the habit ofnoting as the identification marks of their lines suchvolatile objects as a blackbird in a tree, or such per-ishable ones as an ant hill or a decaying for recording titles also have been ill ar-ranged. One of the first tasks of the new Republicwas to take up this matter and it has been fairly systematic form. The Republic is offering. A NATIVE LIVING ROOM AND STAIRWAYBy pulling up the bamboo ladder, or turning it, communication with the upper floor is closed for sale great quantities of public lands long held ascommons by various Much of thisland lies along the line of the railroad from Panamato David, and is of varying grades suitable for graz-ing, forestry or agriculture. A fLxed price of 50cents per hectare is charged, a hectare being prac-tically 23-2 acres.^ The government has gone quiteefficiently into the task of disposing of these lands,and pamphlets explanatory of methods of securingtitles, terms, etc., can be obtained by addressing theAdministrator-General at Panama. The Pan-Amer-ican Union, of Washington, D. C, has issued apamphlet giving a summary in English of the Pana-manian law bearing upon the subject. With the lack of labor, and theuncertainty of land titles, the finalimpediment to the general develop-ment of the interior of Panama is
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