HERON FISHING AT HEAD-WATER STREAM: AS THE SHORES OF THE LAKE OPEN UP 
THEY WILL BE A FAVORITE RESORT FOR ALL WADING BIRDS 
powers under the treaty are concerned, 
they are ample to enable us to acquire all 
the lands needed.” 
The treaty in question was proclaimed 
by President Roosevelt, February 26, 
1904, and contained several broad stipu- 
lations altogether sufficient to meet pres- 
ent requirements. Article IT, after grant- 
ing, under definite boundaries, the to- 
mile zone, further provides that the 
United States shall be granted ‘in per- 
petuity the use, occupation, and control 
of any other lands and waters outside of 
the zone, above described, which may be 
‘necessary and convenient for the con- 
struction, maintenance, operation, sanita- 
tion, and protection of the said canal.” 
TIME MUST BE FIXED 
/ 
The acceptance of this privilege is not 
operative, of course, without proof that 
such enlargement is “necessary and con- 
venient’ in the use and protection of the 
canal. A demand, therefore, must be 
made for a compliance with this agree- 
ment. However liberal this offer, no in- 
dependent nation can yield or another ac- 
cept sovereignty over a territory without 
a proper definement of the ceded land, in 
order to determine the date of transfer 
and the permanent assumption of a juris- 
diction thereover. 
Eleven years have now elapsed since 
the treaty went into effect, and good faith 
as well as expediency suggests negotia- 
tions for determining the amount of land 
or adjacent waters needed to protect the 
United States in its use of the canal. 
While the treaty is silent as to additional 
compensation, such an omission should be 
disregarded and an appropriation made 
in proportion to the value of the addi- 
tional grant. 
All or a part of this sum might be used 
by Panama in the purchase of the bound- 
ary territory from Costa Rica, now under 
dispute, thereby restoring to Panama an 
area that would serve as an equivalent 
for the cession of the additional land, and 
at the same time bringing the three na- 
tions concerned into a mutual adjustment 
of their territorial rights. 
