[Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson]@TWC D-Link bookRanching, Sport and Travel CHAPTER X 16/30
At least common report had it so.
In 1903 Colombia refused the United States offer to purchase the enlarged canal zone.
At once Panama province seceded from the State, and sold the desired zone to the United States for 10,000,000 dollars, conditionally on the United States recognizing and guaranteeing the young Republic.
The deal was cleverly arranged, and was again perhaps the only effective method to obtain possession. The tide at Panama measures 20 feet, at Colon only 2 feet.
In 1905 the International Board of Consulting Engineers, summoned by President Roosevelt, recommended, by eight to five, a sea-level canal (two locks). But Congress adopted the minority's 85-feet-level plan (6 locks), with an immense dam at Gatun, which dam will not be founded on rock, but have a central puddled core extending 40 feet below the bottom of the lake, and sheet piling some 40 feet still deeper.
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