 It 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...  Science - Page 4351884Full view - About this book
 | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1912 - 602 pages
...possesses, both for the construction and the maintenance of a canal, greater advantages and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial and...any one of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficient in detail to enable a judgment to be formed of their respective merits." The... | |
 | Logan Marshall, C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1913 - 364 pages
...Pacific coast, possesses, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages and fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial, and...any one of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficient in detail to enable a judgment to be formed of their respective merits." Meanwhile... | |
 | Frederic Jennings Haskin - 1913 - 450 pages
...this route possessed, both for the construction and maintenance of the canal, greater advantages and fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial, and...any one of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficient in detail to enable a judgment to be formed of their respective merits. When... | |
 | Reuben Edwin Bakenhus, Harry Shepard Knapp, Emory Richard Johnson - 1914 - 324 pages
.... . 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." A further survey of the Nicaragua route was made in 1885 by order of the Secretary... | |
 | George Washington Goethals - 1916 - 570 pages
...possessing greater advantages and fewer difficulties, from an engineering, commercial and economic point of view, than any one of the other routes shown to be practicable by the surveys. While the interoceanic canal commission was examining into the merits of the different... | |
 | Adolph Henry Kazda - 1916 - 166 pages
...Pacific, possesses both for 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... | |
 | Stephen Kinzer - 2006 - 414 pages
...Nicaragua "possesses, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantage, and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial and...points of view, than any one of the other routes." Slowly the project gained momentum. In 1889 a private company chartered by Congress began dredging... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1889 - 632 pages
...Greytown, possesses, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages, and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial and...any one 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... | |
 | 1899 - 612 pages
...it possessed, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages, and offered fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial, and...any one of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment to be formed of their relative merits. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1893 - 834 pages
...route possesses both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages, and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial and...any one 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... | |
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