Alaska and the Panama canal . CORNER OF A PUBLIC SQUARE IN PANAMA CITY. much produce going to market on pack-ponies and two-wheeled ox-carts over very poor roads. When Panama becamea repubHc there was scarcely a road in it worthy of thename. Recently they have begun to get busy in road-build-ing, the Government assisting with large sums of have improved the cities, and are beginning to realizethat to sustain the cities they must help the country, whereagriculture has been in a primitive, backward condition. Since the North Americans arrived in 1904, the Panamapeople have constructed
Alaska and the Panama canal . CORNER OF A PUBLIC SQUARE IN PANAMA CITY. much produce going to market on pack-ponies and two-wheeled ox-carts over very poor roads. When Panama becamea repubHc there was scarcely a road in it worthy of thename. Recently they have begun to get busy in road-build-ing, the Government assisting with large sums of have improved the cities, and are beginning to realizethat to sustain the cities they must help the country, whereagriculture has been in a primitive, backward condition. Since the North Americans arrived in 1904, the Panamapeople have constructed municipal buildings, including school-. RAILWAV STATION, PANAMA CITY. PANAMA CANAL ZONE AND REPUBLIC 137 houses, in all of the importanttowns; a $1,000,000 nationalpalace and theater in PanamaCity, a national institute for boyscosting $800,000, and numerousother fine improvements, hutthey are painfully shy on rail-roads. Outside the Canal Zoneline, they have only about 150miles of track, consisting mainlyof the United Fruit Companysroad and branches in the pnn-ince of Bocas del Toro, prin-cipally a banana-carrying road. However, the present admin-istration of the Republic is planning the building of severalelectric lines, which, when they materialize, will aid the muchneeded development of the country. They have a lot of resources in the Reptiblic; bananasgalore, coffee and cacao, sugar, tobacco, mahogany and othervaluable woods, and almost everv common mineral exceptcoal. It is an old volcanic region with a rich soil, and all itneeds is the application of muscle and brains. It is begin-
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