APPENDIX G.


STATEMENT OF MR. LINDON W. BATES BEFORE THE BOARD SEPTEMBER 19, 1905, AND DATA SUBMITTED SUBSEQUENTLY.



 111 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, October 23, 1905. DEAR SIR: The undersigned has the honor to respond to the attached letter of October 2, received from Colon, in New York, October 12. He has complied with the request therein contained, inFirst. Some incidental corrections in the text of the hearing of September 18.
 Second. As Appendix 1, a brief minute re lockage, supply, and capacity of projects A, B, and B', which has been asked for.
 Third. As Appendix 2, a summary of basic quantities and unit prices for the execution of the principal works of projects A, B, and B' supplementary to table on page 163 of The Panama Canal System and Projects.
 The writer begs to state that in view of possible future contract relations to the Panama Canal on the part of his associates and himself he has, as set forth on page 161, figured a system of structural quantities and unit prices on the basis of a practical bid and its execution. These unit prices are naturally applicable to three projects only, and to them under his own proposed means and methods of execution alone.
 As requested, the copy of the report of the hearing accompanying your letter is returned, and three complete sets of revised text and appendixes are herewith transmitted for convenience.
 Very respectfully,
 LINDON W. BATES.
 Capt. JOHN C. OAKES, U. S. Army,
 Secretary Board of JConsultiny Engineers,
 Isthmian Canal Commission, Washington, D. U.


 BOARD OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS,
 ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION,
 S. S. Havana, October 2, 1905.
 SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith one copy of the report of your hearing before the Board of Consulting Engineers, at Washington, D. C., September 19.
 Owing to the rapidity with which the questions and answers were made it was impossible for the stenographer to obtain a perfectly correct record. It is the desire of the Board of Consulting Engineers that you should read this record and make any corrections of statement and fill in any statements made which have been omitted.
 The following resolution was adopted at a meeting of the Board on September 30:
 Whereas Mr. Bates in his pamphlet has discussed the details of various estimates prepared by other authorities, but gives for his own projects only lump sums: Therefore,
 Resolved, That in order to permit a proper comparison of Mr. Bates's projects to be made with other projects, he De requested to append to his oral discussion answers to the following questions: 247