Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1913 — Land of Small Opportunity. [ARTICLE]

Land of Small Opportunity.

Census reports from the Panama canal zone give the population there today as 63,810, of which about 42,000 are employes of the canal commission, the Panama railroad and of the various canal contractors. Generally speaking, the soil is not suitable for farming. It Is not likely that Americans will be attracted 1 , and since other occupants than Americans, for obvious reasons, are not desirable, Colonel Goethals Is in favor of the depopulation of the zone, except so far as it will occupied by canal operar tlves and by the military necessary for the protection of the canal