 | 1859 - 886 σελίδες
...men employed ; but they were mostly Irish, unable to endure the effects of the climate, and being abo badly cared for, their numbers were soon so thinned...contract was completed, and the Company were obliged a^uin to take the enterprise into their own hands nnd cnrry it on by the same system pursued before... | |
 | 1889 - 966 σελίδες
...expenses of construction of the canal." f And also with the saying, " Only poor men come to the Isthmus." so thinned by sickness and death that the contractor...any part of the contract for the price agreed upon." Subsequently, as many as 7000 labourers were at work at one time, drawn from all parts of the world.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 σελίδες
...their number were on the hospital records," and a link: later, at the Barbacoas Bridge, the laborers " were soon so thinned by sickness and death that the...himself unable to accomplish any part of the contract lor the price agreed upon." Subsequently, as many as 7000 laborers were at work at one time, drawn... | |
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... was again commenced upon it, as well as upon several sections of the road between this point and the Pacific terminus. At times there was a force of several hundred men employed ; but they were mostly Irish, unable to endure the effects of the climate,... 