Show Tho IstHmus Question I New York 12Captain Fads now h ° ic assured a Tribune reporter yesterday yester-day that he is confident of carrying through his ship railway and thinks Lessens canal project is dead A G ilenocal sail in the Acapulco t1day wi h a view to obain additional data respecting the Nicaragua route for a canal He stated to a Het aid reporter The special object of my visit this time is to make further observations of the rainfall and flow of the stream through which our route will pass By original surveys it was s own that a Nicaragua I canal would have the greatest cutting 130 feet we think this may be reduced to forty feet by making a passaga through the valley in which the flow of water is but 5000 cubic feet per second lie expected to return ia ten or twelve weekS and then be able to put government govern-ment in full possession of all that is necessary to know about the canal project pro-ject of any kind in Nicaragua |