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Rh Deseado Rivers, built several miles of broad-gauge railroad and 35 miles of telegraph line, and cleared the first part of the route of the canal. A large quantity of machinery, tools, lumber, piles, and other materials necessary for the establishment of the plant to be used in construction, has been landed at Greytown. A complete hospital service and ambulance corps has been organized in Nicaragua and sanitary arrangements in and about camps and headquarters have been perfected.

The work and statistics will appear in the report for the present year, to be made to the next session of Congress.

, Secretary.
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