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In order to get the full benefit of his advice, you should be as frank with him as to your conditions and requirements as you are with your physician or your lawyer. 26 Will you tell me something of the history of Panama in connection with the United States and the Panama Canal operations? Just what is the Panama Canal Zone? Panama, a Central American Republic, comprising (nearly) the Isthmus of Panama (See maps No. 69 and No. 692, Century Dictionary Atlas) proclaimed its independence on November 3, 1903. Its government was recognized by the United States on November 13, 1903, and later by other powers. By a treaty signed November 18, 1903 (ratified February 23, 1904), Panama ceded to the United States for $10,000,000 the perpetual control of a strip ten miles wide (the Canal Zone). The cities of Panama and Colon (lying within the zone) were placed under the control of the United States as regards sanitation and quarantine only; but the coastline of the zone and the outlying islands were ceded to the United States for purposes of defense. Area, 32,380 square miles. Population, 361,000. Work on the Panama Canal was organized in 1904 for the construction of| a canal of the lock type, and this type, which had been accepted by Congress in 1901, was adopted by it in 1906. The plan includes a channel from deep water on the Caribbean to Gatún, where an ascent to the 85-foot level is to be made by means of three (twin) locks, each lock being 110 feet wide and 1000 feet long; a dam at Gatún about 7700 feet long, one half mile wide at the base, 100 feet wide at the top, and 135 feet above mean tide; a lock at Pedro Miguel; and two locks at Miraflores. The lake formed by the Gatún dam is about 171 square miles in extent. The deepest part of the cut is at Culebra (41⁄2 miles long and 300 feet wide at bottom). Total length of canal, 49.72 miles. Panama Canal Zone (Isthmian Canal Zone). A strip of territory ten miles wide, extending five miles in each direction from the central line of the canal route across the Isthmus of Panama. It begins in the Caribbean Sea "three marine miles from mean low |