The American Inter-oceanic Ship Canal QuestionL.R. Hamersly & Company, 1880 - 102 pages |
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actual location advantage 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 Menocal coast Commander E. P. Lull Commander Lull Commander Selfridge commercial Committee Congress consideration construction DANIEL AMMEN delegates discussion distance drainage Drouillet estimated cost examination excavation execution favor feet floods francs French French Navy Geographical Society Gogorza Government Greytown harbor inches inter-oceanic canal inter-oceanic ship canal interests Isthmus of Panama labor Lake Nicaragua Lavalley length Lesseps Lieutenant Collins Lieutenant Wyse Matachin metres miles Napipi navigation Nicaragua Canal Nicaragua route ocean ocean-level opinion Pacific Panama Railroad Panama route Paris plans possible present President proposed canal Rear-Admiral Ammen reconnoissance regarded region Report San Juan River sea-level seems Sir John Hawkshaw sub-committees Suez Canal sufficient surveys tide-lock tion tunnel Tupisa U. S. Navy United vessels vote water-shed Wyse and Reclus
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Page 46 - 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 6 - Coast, possesses, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages, and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial and economic points of view than any of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment to be formed of their relative merits, as will be briefly presented in the appended memorandum.
Page 60 - 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 11 - 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 80 - 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 60 - ... 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 46 - Chief of Engineers, US Army, the Superintendent of the US Coast Survey, and the Chief of Bureau of Navigation, US Navy.
Page 93 - 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 53 - ... 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 22 - Europe with our own commerce to the whole west coast of the Americas, to Northern. China and Japan, and southwardly to the Australian continent. Nor can commerce longer forget that not only the drainage of the rivers emptying into the American Mediterranean is of an area greater than...