The American Inter-oceanic Ship Canal QuestionL.R. Hamersly & Company, 1880 - 102 pages |
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actual location American Isthmus Atrato Atrato-Napipi route Bureau of Navigation Caledonia Bay canal à niveau canal question canal route canal with locks Chagres River Civil Engineer A. G. Civil Engineer Menocal coast Commander E. P. Lull Commander Lull Commander Selfridge commercial Committee Congress consideration construction DANIEL AMMEN delegates discussion distance drainage Drouillet Engineer A. G. Menocal estimated cost examination excavation execution exists favor feet floods francs French Navy Geographical Society Gogorza Government Greytown harbor inter-oceanic canal inter-oceanic ship canal interest Isthmus of Panama labor Lake Nicaragua Lavalley length Lesseps Lieutenant Collins Lieutenant Wyse Matachin metres miles Napipi navigation Nicaragua Canal Nicaragua route ocean-level opinion Pacific Panama Railroad Panama route Paris plans possible present President Rear-Admiral Ammen reconnoissance region Report River San San Juan River sea-level seems Sir John Hawkshaw sub-committees Suez Canal sufficient surveys tide-lock tion tunnel U. S. Navy United vessels water-shed Wyse and Reclus
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Page 36 - The Commission appointed by you to consider the subject of communication by canal between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across, over, or near the isthmus connecting North and South America, have the honor, after a long, careful, and minute study of the several surveys of the various routes across the continent, unanimously to report: That the route known as the "Nicaragua route...
Page 60 - ... executing a scheme in which the whole civilized world is necessarily deeply interested. These gentlemen, therefore, thus commissioned by the President, will have no official powers or diplomatic functions, and are not authorized to hold official communication with the French government or its officers, except such as may by virtue of their connection with the French Geographical Society, or as delegates ad hoc, take part in the proceedings of the conference. Furthermore, they are not empowered...
Page 68 - no official powers or diplomatic functions," and no authority to state what action would be taken by their government. Commissioner Ammen abstained from voting, upon the ground that " only able engineers can form an opinion after careful study of what is actually possible, and what is relatively economical in the construction of a ship canal.
Page 3 - The arduous work which has been carefully prosecuted for five " seasons by two or more parties, from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to "twenty or more miles south of the mouth of the Napipi, on the "River Atrato, is at length satisfactorily accomplished.
Page 43 - If, from such considerations as the foregoing, it should be concluded that the canal should be so constructed as to retain the rivers for natural drainage, then recourse will have to be had to locks. In that event, there can be no difficulty, in njy opinion, in carrying on the traffic with locks properly constructed, provided there is an ample water-supply, which would be a sine qua non.
Page 50 - ... facilities and ease of access and of use which a work of this kind should offer above all others, it should be built from the Gulf of Limon (Colon) to the Bay of Panama ; and it particularly recommends the construction of a ship canal on a level in that direction.
Page 83 - The Committee, standing on a technical point of view, is of the opinion that the canal, such as would satisfy the requirements of commerce, is possible across the Isthmus of Panama, and recommend especially a canal at the level of the sea.
Page 43 - ... the sectional area of the canal. If the canal have a less surface fall than the river, as it would have, it must have a larger sectional area to discharge the same volume of water. " The average section of the river in a flood at Mame'i was ascertained by M.
Page 70 - This being the case, the canal would receive and must provide for the whole drainage of the district it traversed. " Therefore it would be necessary to ascertain the volume of water that would drain into the canal before it would be possible even to determine the sectional area of the canal. " If the canal have a less surface fall than the river, as it would have, it must have a larger sectional area to discharge the same volume of water.