 Pacific 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 one of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys...  Science - Page 4281884Full view - About this book
 | ARCHIBALD ROSS COLQUHOUN - 1898 - 836 pages
...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 CENTRAL MAP OF ENTIRE =E FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 pages
...possesses greater advantages and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial, and economical points of view than any one of the other routes shown to be practicable. An association of American citizens, in the year 1887, having secured from the government of Nicaragua... | |
 | William E. Simmons - 1900 - 386 pages
...route "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." Admiral Ammen and Engineer Menocal, who were appointed... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901 - 892 pages
...route " possesses, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages and offers fewer difficulties, from engineering, commercial,...of view, than any one of the other routes shown to bo practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment to be formed of their relative... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901 - 942 pages
...south of Tehuantepec, across the American isthmus, over which a canal could be constructed. offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial, and economic points of view, than any one of tbe other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment to... | |
 | James Wilson Grimes Walker - 1902 - 366 pages
...route located by Lull and Menocal as possessing " both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages, and offering fewer difficulties...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... | |
 | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1906 - 678 pages
...advantages 'Senate Ex. Doc. No. 15, 46th Cong., 1st session. VARIOUS SHIP RAILWAY PROJECTS. 333 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... | |
 | Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay - 1906 - 410 pages
...and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages * Senate Ex. Doc. No. 15, 46th Cong., 1st session. 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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