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Governor by Colonel Stratton and the board. If the Governor accepts 

 it, as is probable since he keeps in close touch with the work even to 

 taking part in the consulting board meetings, the recommendation 

 will be presented to the War and Navy Departments for review, and 

 will then go to Congress. What happens after that in the way of 

 actual design and construction is up to the law makers, the President, 

 and the American people. 



Figure 1. — The Panama Canal and three of the alternate routes in its vicinity 

 whose engineering feasibility and relative cost and security are under investi- 

 gation. 



Considering the study procedure and the topnotch technical talents 

 of the men engaged on the work, and observing their earnestness of 

 purpose and high sense of responsibility, one cannot but feel that the 

 recommendation will be honestly arrived at, technically sound, and 

 unaffected by frivolous whims or superficial reasoning. There almost 

 surely will be those who will disagree with the recommendation, but 

 none except the carelessly biased or the unscrupulous who would ques- 

 tion its integrity. 



