File No. 822.124/265.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]
No. 169.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that Colonel W. C. Gorgas, accompanied by Major K. E. Noble, Inspector General of Sanitation at Panama, Mr. G. A. Le Prince, Chief Inspector of Sanitation, and Mr. J. A. McGuigan, Secretary, arrived in Guayaquil December 8. The next morning Colonel Gorgas and party paid their respects to the Governor, and then went to the “Banco Comercial y Agricola,” where $8,100 gold was placed to the order of Colonel Gorgas. The engineers of the Junta de Canalización were then presented to Colonel Gorgas and placed all the data in their possession at the disposal of the Commission. The Commission has been received with the greatest cordiality.

I have [etc.]

Rutherfurd Bingham.