Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1907 — Panama Canal in Five Years. [ARTICLE]

Panama Canal in Five Years.

Kansas City, March 28. —Representative Charles F. Scott, of lola, Kan,, one of the party of congressmen, recently returned from a trip to the Isthmus, said here: “The people of the isthmus believe that the Panama canal can and will be finished in about five years. Its plausible. I don’t say that the work will lie done within that length of time, hut at the rate the digging is being carried on now, I believe It could be. It certainly will not take much longer time than five years.”