THE PANAMA CANAL.
PROBABLE SEDUCED COST. STATEMENT BY MB. BOOSEVEI-T. (Received 5.48 ajn.) WASHINGTON, October 22. Mr. Roosevelt, 3pea Icing in Florida, sii that the work on the Panama Caual y$ now sufficiently advanced to enable him to announce that it would (Certainly be accomplished, and probably at a leas opense, than had been anticipated. He considered that the United States ought to police the canal district. [The estimated cost of completing <the anal was 150 million dollars, to which iaff to He added 40 millions paid fi> ffie French Canal Company,, and 10 millions paid to.the Panama Government, making 200 million dollars, or 41 millions aterline in all.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 253, 23 October 1905, Page 5
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109THE PANAMA CANAL. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 253, 23 October 1905, Page 5
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