| Show H RAILROADS US IHO AND TI THIS CANAL Ci The Panama canal Is so great an nn enterprise that it I overshadows o other oIlier Important work that has been done dono donoto to facilitate commerce between tho tile Pacific and amid Atlantic oceans across tho limo wasp like wasp waste connecting North and South America We re have ha heard something of oC the tIme Panama railroad and also of oC the time Vera era Ver Pacific Cruz railway railway rail rail- rl- rl wa way which affords communication between w n tile the tle two coast In lines P Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- r- r haps not mint so o much Is known of or tho new neit national railway raU built bui across the time Isthmus of oC by hy a combination combi combi- nation of or American capital and the lie Mexican government go A report frol from Special Agent Pepper to the consular department sy says I h J AS As Am It exists toda today tolaY the time T I I National atonal railway Is an unu unusually good work of railroad construction and ond I I seems capable of oC sustaining all al time the freight traffic that can be obtained for Cor or I It The Time road Is standard gauge gause of o four Cour feet feel eight and one half hal Inches For the lie clayey soil sol there therl Is rock balIn ballast ballast bal bal- In last t and gravel gra The rime ties tes are creo- creo soled pine California redwood and amid native nat e hardwood 1 Eighty pound steel lC rails ris are employed The best besl steel bridges with solid sold masonry and amid abutments abut abut- ments melts are arc utilized wherever a river riverIs I Is to be cro crossed sed and this l Is iii especially on account of oC th the torrential rains In iii time the tl wet WIt season fason The locomotives loco ben motives moth and rolling tock stock art armS o of the iho bet best With Ith this solid construction con con- and wilh wih such rolling stock there herO seems to be mm no nn l II question about tins railroad standing whatever strain may be he put ut upon ullon it I. I Thus It I appears that limit the old oM line lne across c the time Isthmus of has been heen rebuilt and modernized It I Is noU r regarded as ns a rival to lo time canal canol when It il Is completed but bul It I Is IR t designed de designed de HI signed n d to lo carr carry a heavy y hea traffic during the period of iho tho canal construction It I will wi carry the time overflow o traffic which time the Panama railroad can not take care car of on account of the necessity necessity sity sly of u using Its IN facilities for fOI tho the construction con con- COI- COI work vork of oC the canal Connecting Con- Con with wih the new railroad on either c coast ast ii will wi iii be steamship hl lines and ant a great greal traffic will wi doubtless be he de developed which will ivill wi reach Us its Is till full ful flower when time the canal Is put Into op opert op- op ert oration ri H I Is evident that thal t tremendous men men- dous commercial Jo possibilities have ha e developed de do- in iii recent years mild and anI that thai there ther I is is to to-be to he be a marked Increase of oC commerCe commerce com corn merce meree across c the time Isthmus lon long before t the e canal Is finished |
