Show NEW ROUTE FOR ISTHMIAN CANAL Commission Has Discovered a Tide Tidewater water levoi Line t It Will Ill Probably unto lIun a 11 lit teat leol on the IroL Dispatches New ew York June a letter t td n personal friend at Bellefonte Pa Dr Dro 1 o G 11 F Wickes formerly physician si Ie New York and arMi at present ot of the carat conveys an Idea ot of the to suite ulla which may be expected ot of tile the work vork of the he commission Dr WICked gives the interesting and startling in III that the commission has hal dis discovered covered A tide water level route ute tot for a aanal anal acro across the lle Isthmus The letter alto also shows some lIne of the hardships and nd dangers which the com commission million teed red It t was written from Caledonia bay and In part says Here we have found what we an all haY have vainly fur for WHite weeks and weka tit a practical route for tor 1 a tide level canal We have hav found low enough gape In the he dividing rid ridge from tit titto titre to time with a steep approach on the Atlantic slope making 1 a out a possibility Jut but disappointment hu him always awaited us ue on the Q r sloe Hut But In the last week we have found a rap gap feet reet high a little too high perhaps but bul not beyond the science ur or modern engineering and when I tell you this thill every ery feet against the route h hue been enumerated the summit of this gap In the divide both the Atlantic and Pacific slopes go godown 0 down lown pd especially t the I Iter lat latter ter which has ball h heretofore been our stumbling blU block k A great wid wide valley out toward the P Pa chic ocean which an lie be seen In the distance The Atlantic la Is near and 1 to in sight Mere a tidewater canal tile the dream 0 of all can an be bunt hullt with a I harbor on each Would protect It Its mouth and on the theother other side San Sail bay is Ie a perfect site The ut of the say that the harbor alone make this route worth more Inore all any damming of ef rivers W uld otherwise timid rood the anal Nul la lea a apr pr problem blem ot of every route rOUle The only thing to be said Id against this route rout Ie b the high out of feet tN Or Of course t ingress may not t tt t the epu mats an In be fact tM that th this is isiac liar InlO th the future route for a transcontinental canal route t Nears possible that wo we have hl Caledonian route during durin the three years yeara work hero In Inthe inthe the early seventies The route suggested iron from bay bar to the Gulf ot of San Miguel U Its 8 about 11 east Iut of the old Panora Colon route rout The proP proposed line conn connect t tile the Gulf ot of D Darien axed fhe e Ilay or of Panama At that plies the Isthmus of Darien Carien is Ia abaft mU miles wide |