Show NICA lUGUui CANAL President Will Doubtless Soon Appoint s Ap-point the Commission New York March SO Warner Miller I Smith M Weed Hiram Hitchcock Tnd I John R Bartlett the committee which went to Washington to offer the services ser-vices of the Nicaragua Canal company to the commission authorized by Congress Con-gress to make a survey for the new canal have returned Congress appropriated appro-priated 20000 with which to send three engineers to Nicaragua for the work The committee had an interview tsvith the President who said he would soon appoint the commission Our imerview said Mr Bartlett was highly satisfactory and successful success-ful It had nothing to do with the appointment ap-pointment of the commission but was polely for the purpose of offering every facility at our command for the expedition I expe-dition of survey The route Is now almost al-most impassable and it would be impossible Im-possible for the engineers to make their I urvey did not the canal company prepare for them in advance We shall even go to much expense in order that the government officers may push the work An expedition will be organized at once to go ahead and makeready tair the engineers Boats must be provided pro-vided camps must be established at every three or four miles tor that is I all the progress which could be made C In a day and provisions must be transported o trans-ported to these camps on fthobacks of natives Then things will be ready for vtb cng1n ers to ffart out We rug gested no names for the places IWe n Kant fair and capable men > > which we J p rP are sure we will get to inspect our property Reports to the company indicate the character of the work to foe done at once The route is Impeded with water of varying depth in which boats must be used unless men work In wet to their waists Since the old company com-pany failed the line of the railroad has become choked with a dense and high tropical growth The company hopes to break ground for new work next year Its estimate of the cost of the canal is 75000000 |