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HISTORY
Canal, and one of the alleged
participants in the syndicate was Charles P. Taft, the
brother of William Howard Taft. These allegations were
never satisfactorily proven
and they were regarded by some as a
maneuver to embarrass Taft's candidacy for
president. Concerning Bunau-Varilla's
activities in Cincinnati, the author has not found
any mention of a member of the Taft
family.
39. Wulsin to Bunau-Varilla, February 3,
1902.
40. Taylor to Bunau-Varilla, January 28,
1901.
41. Bunau-Varilla to Mrs. Myron T.
Herrick, June 14, 1902.
42. Philippe Bunau-Varilla to Maurice
Bunau-Varilla, March 15, 1901.
43. Deering to Bunau-Varilla, March 30,
1901.
44. Bunau-Varilla to Deering, March 30,
1901.
45. Deering to Bunau-Varilla, April 1,
1901.
46. Wulsin to Bunau-Varilla, February
25, 1902.
47. Jacob H. Bromwell to Wulsin,
February 26, 1902.
48. Bunau-Varilla to Myron T. Herrick,
June 2, 1902.
49. Liberty E. Holden to Bunau-Varilla,
June 6, 1902.
50. Bunau-Varilla to Herrick, June 14,
1902.
51. Bunau-Varilla to Wulsin and Taylor,
June 21, 1902.
52. Miles P. DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay (Stanford,
Calif., 1940), 303.
53. Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 318-319.
54. Ibid., 329-336.
55. DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 327.
56. Ibid., 310, 332.
57. Bunau-Varilla to Loomis, December
31, 1903. Loomis was particularly helpful
in Bunau-Varilla's efforts to secure the
recognition of Panama by the nations of the
world.
58. Bunau-Varilla to Taylor and Edward
Goepper, November 9, 1903.
59. Bunau-Varilla to Wulsin and Taylor,
January 1, 1904.
60. Bunau-Varilla to Taylor, June 11,
1901.
THE OHIO ROAD
EXPERIMENT
1. The Signal, December 17, 1914. The bulk of the material for this
article was taken
from the National Archives, Washington,
D. C. I should like to thank the College Research
Institute of Texas Western College for
making my research in Washington, D. C., pos-
sible. Microfilm of the Signal, one
of Zanesville's daily newspapers, was made available
to me by the Ohio Historical Society,
for which I wish to express my appreciation.
2. Work on the "West Pike" was
begun in August 1829. The first section of twenty-one
miles west of Zanesville was
substantially finished and opened to regular travel in 1831.
By 1833 work on the remainder was
sufficiently advanced to permit mail service over the
whole length of the road, though it was
not fully completed until late in 1835. Reports of
the Secretary of War, Senate
Executive Documents, 21 cong., 2 sess., No. 17, p. 16; 22
cong., 1 sess., No. 58, p. 2; 23 cong.,
1 sess., No. 1, p. 81; 24 cong., 1 sess., No. 1, p. 194.
For vivid descriptions of the old
National Road, see the following: Thomas B. Searight,
The Old Pike: A History of the
National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes
Thereon (Uniontown, Pa., 1894); Archer Butler Hulbert, The
Cumberland Road (Historic
Highways of America, X, Cleveland, 1904); R. Carlyle Buley, The Old
Northwest: Pio-
neer Period, 1815-1840 (Indianapolis, 1950); Philip D. Jordan, The National
Road (In-
dianapolis, 1948).
3. Hulbert, The Cumberland Road, 123,
174-187.
4. Jordan, The National Road, 169,
175; see also Senate Executive Documents, 23
cong., 1 sess., No. 1, p. 170.
5. Wayne E. Fuller, "Good Roads and
Rural Free Delivery of Mail," Mississippi
Valley Historical Review, XLII (1955), 67-83.
6. Ibid., 81-82; United States Statutes at Large, XXXVII,
551-552.
7. Joint Report of the Progress of Post
Road Improvement, no date, Records Relating
to Federal Aid Road Acts, Records of the
Post Office Department, Record Group 28,
National Archives (hereafter referred to
as Postal Records).
8. State of Ohio certification of money
available for post-road improvement, March
20, 1914; Muskingum County certification
of money available for post-road improvement,
March 13, 1914; Licking County
certification of money available for post-road improve-
ment, March 13, 1914; Second Economic
Study, Ohio Post Road, 2 (the date this report
was written is unknown, but the study
was made May 11-22, 1916); Clinton Cowen to
L. W. Page, June 5, 1915, all in
Correspondence, Reports, and Studies Relating to Post
Roads, Records of the Bureau of Public
Roads, Record Group 30, National Archives (all