Panama and the canal . to supervise the work. Major-GeneralGeorge W. Davis was made Governor of the Canal Zone. A new and interesting piece of land was thus added to theterritory of the United States (Map VII). It is, as we havesaid, 50 miles long and 10 miles wide. In it is a populationof over 50,000 persons. There are twenty-five small townsand a number of camps for workmen. The American portof the city of Colon is called Cristobal, of the City of Pan-ama, Ancon. Between these two ends of the Zone the prin-cipal towns are Gatun, Gorgona, Bas Obispo, Empire,Culebra, and Pedro Miguel. GOOD GOV
Panama and the canal . to supervise the work. Major-GeneralGeorge W. Davis was made Governor of the Canal Zone. A new and interesting piece of land was thus added to theterritory of the United States (Map VII). It is, as we havesaid, 50 miles long and 10 miles wide. In it is a populationof over 50,000 persons. There are twenty-five small townsand a number of camps for workmen. The American portof the city of Colon is called Cristobal, of the City of Pan-ama, Ancon. Between these two ends of the Zone the prin-cipal towns are Gatun, Gorgona, Bas Obispo, Empire,Culebra, and Pedro Miguel. GOOD GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED 133 It vv^as no small task to establish a good government forall these towns and people. There must be courts, prisonsand police, a fire department, post offices,schools, and all those things that would add vTlr^^* Established to the safety and welfare of those who wereto dig the canal. Colombian money, for instance, was still (1903) in use onthe Isthmus. The standard was the peso (pa^so). In Map VII.—The Canal Zone. at least, it was the same as our American dollar. But itsvalue was less than one cent, Imagine taking a Colom-bian $5 bill to a bank and getting in exchange for it anAmerican nickel. An amusing story is told by a gentle-man from New York, who invited the United States consulto a dinner at a hotel in the City of Panama. When themeal was over he found that it had cost him $1,400 in Co- 134 THE AMERICAN WAY ..^^gaa^^^S^
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