Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . intained amount with a market value in excess of $10,000,000.Its scores of white steamships, amazingly well contrivedand fitted for tropical service, constitute one of thepleasantest features of travel on these sunlit seas.The United Fruit Company is by far the greatestagricultural enterprise the world has ever known.Its fruit plantations constitute a farm half a milewide and more than seven hundred miles long. Allof its farm lands exceed in area the 1332 square mileswhich constitute the sovereign State of RhodeIsland. On these farms are more than
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Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . intained amount with a market value in excess of $10, 000, 000.Its scores of white steamships, amazingly well contrivedand fitted for tropical service, constitute one of thepleasantest features of travel on these sunlit seas.The United Fruit Company is by far the greatestagricultural enterprise the world has ever known.Its fruit plantations constitute a farm half a milewide and more than seven hundred miles long. Allof its farm lands exceed in area the 1332 square mileswhich constitute the sovereign State of RhodeIsland. On these farms are more than 25, 000 headof live stock. This agricultural empire is traversedby nearly 1000 miles of railroad. To carry thefruits from the plantations to the seaports there areemployed 100 locomotives and 3000 freight cars.An army of nearly 40, 000 men is employed in thisnew and mammoth industry. The republics ofCentral America were inland nations before the York with Panama by an all-rail route, and thusrealize what once was esteemed an impractical dream.. SANITARY OFriCE, BOCAS DEL TORO 292 PANAMA AND THE CANAL