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head of which, with dominating influence in the commission's executive 

 affairs, was Mr. T. P. Shonts. 



This commission was appointed on April 3, 1905. Two months 

 later President Eoosevelt named a board of consulting engineers, to 

 whom he submitted the question of canal type. Thirteen engineers 

 accepted the invitation to participate in the deliberations of this board 

 of engineers. 



The board, as finall}^ constituted, consisted of : Geo. W. Davis, Major 

 General U. S. Army (retired), chairman; Alfred Noble, chief engineer 

 of the East Eiver Division P., N. Y. & L. I. E. E. ; Wm. Barclay Par- 

 sons, chief engineer of the New York Subway ; Wm. H. Burr, professor 

 of civil engineering, Columbia University; Henry L. Abbot, Brigadier 



Steam Shovels loadi.\(; Ledgerwood Flats on East Side of Culebra Cut 



JUST South of Gold Hill. 



