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Show PLANS FOR RAILROAD Effort to Dlrcrt Traffic of Central America to the United States, NEW YORK. April 15. Plans have Just been consummated for the Immediate Imme-diate completion of a line of railway In Central America, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, which It is believed will have the effect of diverting di-verting a large share of the Central American exports from foreign ports to those of the United States. The coffee output akme averages 1,000,000 bags annually, an-nually, of which almost the entire amount is shipped to Hamburg and other European ports, due to the difficulties diffi-culties in transportation to the Atlantic seaboard. |