THE PANAMA ROUTE FOR A SHIP CANAL. 257 



Immediately after its organization the new Panama Canal Company 

 resumed the work of excavation in the Emperador and Culebra cuts 

 with a force of men which has been reported as varying between 1,900 

 and 3. GOO. It also gave thorough consideration to the subject of the 

 best plan for the completion of the canal. The company's charter 

 provided for the appointment of a special engineering commission 

 of five members by the company and the liquidator to report upon the 

 work done and the conclusions to be drawn from its study. This report 



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was to be rendered when the amount expended by the new company 

 should reach about one half of its capital. At the same time the com- 

 pany also appointed a 'Comite Technique/ constituted of fourteen 

 eminent European and American engineers, to make a study of the 

 entire project, which was to avail itself of existing data and the results 

 of such other additional surveys and examinations as it might consider 

 necessary. The report rendered by this committee was elaborate, and 

 it was made November 16, 1898. It was referred to the statutory com- 

 mission of five, to which reference has already been made, which com- 

 mission reported in 1899 that the canal could be constructed within 

 the limits of time and money estimated. On December 30, 1899, a 

 vol. lxi. — 17. 



