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THE ATLANTIC PACIFIC SHIP-RAILWAY ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC, IN MEXICO, Considered Commercially, Politically Constructively. BY ELMER L, CORTHELL, Chief Engineer. JANUARY. 1886. C… More...

THE ATLANTIC PACIFIC SHIP-RAILWAY ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC, IN MEXICO, Considered Commercially, Politically Constructively. BY ELMER L, CORTHELL, Chief Engineer. JANUARY. 1886. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE. The constant and undiminished Importance of the East during the last three thousand years, as the Source of the Wealth and Trade of the World 3 CHAPTER II. Opinion of American Statesmen during the last sixty years upon the vast importance to this country of an Interoceanic Communication, and upon the Necessity, Right and Policy of the United States to encourage and protect any Isthmian Crossing between the two Oceans 8 CHAPTER III. Commercial and Industrial Facts showing the paramount importance of an Isthmian Crossing and its Imperative Necessity CHAPTER IV. Superior Advantages of the Tehuantepec Isthmus Commercial, Cli- matic, Constructive and Strategic CHAPTER V. The Ship-Railway, its Plans, Practicability and Economy CHAPTER VI. Distances saved. Tonnage expected. Government Status of the Enter- prise, Benefits to the United States and Mexico during the Con- struction. General Results 63 CHAPTER VII. Reports of Congressional Committees approving the Ship-Railway route and method, and urging Government Assistance 70 332691 17 23 33 PLATES. I. A Steamer in Transit Frontispiece . II. Map showing Tehuantepec to be the great Central Barrier to the Worlds Commerce 22 III. Perspective View of the Dock and Car 36 IV. Details of the Lifting Dock 89 V. Details of the Car 41 VI. Perspective View of the Floating Turntable 45 VII. Details of the Floating Turntable.. . 47 PREFACE. THE purpose of the Author in the following pages is to present, in a concise yet comprehensive form, thecommer- cial and political reasons for an interoceanic communication between the Atlantic and Pacific at the Isthmus of Tehuan- tepec in Mexico also to bring together the more important facts that prove the practicability and the economy of a Ship-Railway. The previous discussions, while complete in detail, have been partial and fragmentary. The writer has had exceptional advantages in investigating this subject he made examinations on the Isthmus and the surveys of its harbors in 1880, and has since that time conducted, through very efficient and experienced engineers, complete topographical surveys of the Isthmus, on which the plans, profiles and estimates are based. THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC SHIP-RAILWAY. THE problem CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL. of interoceanic transit across the American continent has been said to possess not only practical value but historic grandeur. Its partial solution is being attained by the construction of those railways which are bringing nearer to us so much of the eastern world but it can be fully solved only 41 when such a work has been made as will prove a maritime highway for America and Europe to the western shores of the continent, to the new world of Australia and its surroundings, to Eastern Asia, and to Japan. To meet the requirements which commerce, supported by all the advanced appliances of this day, imperatively demands, the transit must offer the allurements of a full, uninterupted, safe, and speedy transportation. History invests the problem with an interest surpassing that of its usual records. In this effort to secure a western route to Asia and the Spice Islands it is linked back to the age of the great discoverer and since the object held byColumbus for his sovereigns was the same with that of the ages preceding, the problem thus reaches back to the story of Asia and of the old highways to it. of the coveted wealth India and China what tales of marvelous endeavor to secure their riches remain on the pages of authentic history Both countries, from time immemorial, famed for the richness and variety of products secured by the caravan which sought them by weary routes from the west... Livre - Livre, [PU: Kessinger]<

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