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Show LINE ABOUT COMPLETED The Teliauntcpcc national Railroad 4 Will Soon Be In Operation, v- : - ; '. : i . SAN FRANCISCO. , July 20.-The T-Mauntepec- National, railroad from Sallna Cms, on the Pacific side, to Coatsacoalcoe on the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of 180 miles, ' Is about completed nd It Is expected ex-pected that within nine r twelve months harbor and wharf a re facilities for the landing of steamships and the ' transfer of freight win be finished. - The American-Hawaiian Steamship company, now operating a fleet of stesm-hlpa stesm-hlpa between San Francisco. Hawaii and New York. through, the straits of Magellan, Magel-lan, has concluded' a contract, with the Tehauntepea road for the operation of connecting steamship line on both the Pacific and Atlantic sides and will use the seven vessels now operated via the Straits of Magellan in this service. In addition ad-dition to two new ships about to be built. The company, expects to afford a service ser-vice of twenty-five days by . the new route, as against the thitty-flve or forty daya now taken to tranport freight between be-tween here and New York via Panama and approximately thirty days via American Amer-ican rail lines. ,. .. , |