The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-11

was In the employ of the government
The idea that yellow fever Is prcya.
lent in the isthmus Is erroneous. II,
as well as the malarial fevers preva.
lent In tropical countries. is being
eradicated by the scientific measures
brought to bear by the sanitary de-
partment of the isthmian govern
mont
1T has been learned that one kind
Of mosquito, which bites only in the
daytime, carries yellow fever infec.
ton. 1t also has been learned that 1t
is the female only which bites. the
blood that the insect sucks in being
not for the purpose of food, but to fe-
cundate its eggs and so aid propasa'
ton These eggs are deposited in
stagnant pools, but by the thorough
system of drainage now being made
effective such places arc being done
away withg
"Of the work done by the French
company before tine United States
bought the canal, perhaps II per cent
can be utilized, 1t all depends upon
the plan finally decided upon for the
of the canal. Whether the
canal is 70 be at sea level or thirty,
sixty or ninety feet above sea level,
will not be determined until the sur
veys OF the engineers now in the field
have been completed The expert
AL i, ,tr.N a NV I'm
French company will be of great value
to the United States, as ii will make
much preliminary WORK
that would have been unavoidable 9th
erwise.
Some of the machinery turned
over to the United States by the
French company is still useful, but
much new machinery must be bought,
as great deal Of thai in use by the
Frenchmen is either worn out or not
mp to the requirement of modern
methods.
The preliminary work Of thorough.
Iy surveying the canal route with a
view of determining at what level the
canal is 10 be cut and the exact line
Il win follow will consume all the
time until the end of 1905. by the
spring OF 1906 | expect to have the
entirely mapped out AMI
he actual digging of the canal in
actual progress. Then it will take
light years TO complete the work.
The line already marked out by
he French company will be followed
,retty closely, except that wherever
possible curves will be Strengthened,
rhe line of the canal will be for about
liver, then along one of the branches
# the Chagres, passing through the
nj among the hills known as the Cul-
bra cut, about ten miles from Pana.
ma, and thence on by the Rio Grande
liver to Panama bay.
The completion of the work will !
ost s1j0,000.0 600 This sum added to
he si0,000000 paid to the French |
ompany for the canal property and
he sl0,00000o paid to the Panama
government Tor the grant OF land
viii make the total cost of the great
waterway $200,000,O00.
Il found the natives friendly toward |
he United States, although some of |
he thgifty storekeepers and dispcn
ers of high living seemed to be a lit
h put out when they found that the |
americans were not as free spenders |
S the French had been. The English |
inguage is fast becoming the pre-
ominant tongue in the canal zone, al
nough in hotels and on the plazas
erman, French and Spanish are
card also.
Many of the natives of Panama of
ne higher class are sending their
hildren to the United States 70 be
ducated and this is aiding in the
mericanizing of the isthmus-Mem-
his Scimitar.