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Accessible to sailing beneficent Board of Trade capitalists cent Chagres Chairman C. J. DEMPSTER Commander Lull Commercial World Commonwealth considered contingency estimate COST OF CONSTRUCTION Count De Lesseps Eastern Seaboard enterprise esti Europe feet FINANCIAL RESULTS floods freights Government harbor honor inches average annual increased interest J. S. Taber Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua LAWRENCE MERRY LEVI STRAUSS lift locks LOUIS SACHS Low Tide Level Materials for construction Memorialists Mercantile mercial practicability miles between East Navigation Nicara Nicaragua Canal Nicaragua Inter-oceanic Canal Nicaragua Survey offers no Engineering Pacific Coast Pacific terminus Panama Canal Panama Low Tide possible cost present will live publicly ragua Canal rainy season remotely liable sailing ships San Francisco San Juan River sea level ships in latter steamer Suez Suez Canal Survey by Commander thereby tidal lock Tide Level Canal toll tonnage tax Trade of San U. S. Navy W. W. DODGE West Coast United
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Page 28 - India, being desirous to facilitate the construction of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
Page 16 - We see. no reason why the philosophy that nature teaches should not be made use of to conquer the obstacles that nature places before us ; and we claim that it is better and more reasonable to carry a ship over a summit by means of lift locks than to build a sea level canal at an incalculably increased cost.
Page 3 - That a committee of five members of this Board be appointed by the Chair...
Page 30 - American enterprise, and afford such a guarantee of success as will attract the capital of Europe to complement our own. Our Coast, our Country and the World are ready for this great and beneficent enterprise.
Page 29 - Government of our country will assume the protection, and support with its moral influence, the execution of this great work, upon which so much depends. Your sanction and your encouragement will make this essentially an American enterprise, and afford such a guarantee of success as will...