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CEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



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Vol. XVU FEBRUARY, 1906 No. 2 



CONTENTS 



PAGB 



The Panama Canal* By Hon. Theodore P. Shonts. Chair- 

 man of the Isthmian Canal Commission* Illustrated . . 55 



Transportation Methods in Alaska. By Captain George S. 



Gibbs, Signal Corps* U. S. Army. Illustrated * . * . 69 



"Winning the West : An Account of the Marvelous Progress 

 of Our Reclamation Service in Reclaiming the Desert* 

 By C.J. Blanchard* Engineer. U* S. Reclamation Service* 

 Illustrated 82 



Arizona and New Mexico. Illustrated J 00 



Big Oklahoma * J03 



The Isle of Pines. Illustrated ♦ . J05 



Surveying the United States. Illustrated 110 



What is Known of Alaska. Illustrated JJ2 



A Dictionary of Universal Geography ♦ JJ4 



Correspondence .*. 1 15 



National Geographic Society H6 



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