Deseret Evening News | 1890-02-15 | Page 1 | Railroad to Guatemala

RAilroad to Gnamal CHICAGO Feb HA M Ban nister the civil engineer who constructed con-structed the eogner struce of railroad from San O de Guatemala t Guatemala Guate-mala City In 1SS4 said this evening that he had advices from Central America to the effect that a line i Icon 1 b completed from Guatemala Guate-mala City to Port Barrios near the mouth of the Mataqua BlvergThis he assert means that Guatemala is t have line of railway from ocean to ocean which may seriously complicate com-plicate tlie Nicauragua and Panama canal projects Tbe transhipment of freight across the country will save many days and many miles In the route from New York to western west-ern ports of South America A steamship line TarnpaFlorida jl to Port Barrios would shorten the distance still more According 1 Bannister the eighty miles already built of the covers roadway the most difficult part