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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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as a highway for foreign trade. The very firstyear that the Canal was open canned fruitsfrom California were carried through it on theirway to Saint Paul by way of New York, andmachinery from Saint Louis passed throughNew York on its way to the Pacific coast states.The reason for this was economy. Steamboatscan always carry goods much farther for thesame charge than can freight trains, for steam-boats have no expense for building and keepingin repair grades and tracks, tunnels and bridges.The railroads may temporarily meet the com-petition of the Canal by reducing rates, but inmany instances they cannot do this; and whenGalveston, Mobile, New Orleans, Pensacola andTampa, Baltimore, Charleston, Norfolk andPhiladelphia have regular lines of steamersthrough Panama, and when improvements onthe Mississippi and its tributaries are com-pleted, this roundabout traffic will become stillmore common, and the benefits of the Canal tothe LTnited States will increase. PANAMA CANAL 4472 PANAMA CANAL
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PANAMA CANAL AND CANAL ZONEThe small corner map shows the entire country of Panama ; the solid black square represents thatportion of the republic which appears in the larger map. These changes do not mean that money willbe taken from the treasuries of the railroadsand put into the purses of the steamship com-panies. Just as economies in factory operationmean greater profits, so savings in internaltransportation result in increased prosperityfor a nation. If, for instance, California can-ners can buy their machinery cheaper than be-fore, because of lower freight charges, they cansell their fruits at a lower price; since they canalso ship them East with less expense, they cansell more of their products, employ more menor pay better wages, and grow more fruit. Canada and the Canal. Most of the dis-tances that are shortened for ports in theUnited States are shortened equally for Canada,and as the Dominion is rapidly increasing inimportance as an exporting country, the Canalwill eventuall

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