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Show TRAFFIC BY PANAMA AND TEVlAUNTEPEC The IranslsUimian traffic between the eastern and western coasts of the United States and between the eastern east-ern coast of tho United States and the western coast of Central and South America, has greatly increased in recent years. In the fiscal year 1905 it aggregated but eight million dollars, in 1910 Is was over eighty million dollars, or ten times as much. This increase is the result in part of the opening on January 1, 1907, of the railway across the Isthmus of Tohauntepc. Mexico. 190 miles in length, operated in conjunction with lines of ocean stonmors at either end and supplies with facilities for transferring trans-ferring lijfigbr. from steamer to railway rail-way and from railway to steamer. T,hc value of its traffic in merchandise originating or-iginating in and destined for ports of thp United States has grown from about twonty-fivo million dollars in the calendar year, 1907, the first year of Its operation, to seventy million dollars in the fiscal year 1910. In the meantime tho value of American merchandise crossing by way of tho Panama Railway, largely occupied at tho present timo with tho service Incident In-cident to the construction of the Panama Pan-ama canal, has grown from $9,500,000 In the fiscal year 1907 to $12,750,000 in the fiscal year 1910. Practically all of tho American traffic traf-fic carried across the Isthmus of Te-hauntopec Te-hauntopec passed between the eastern and western coast ports of the United Unit-ed States, including the Hawaiian Islands, Is-lands, while about three-fifths of that carried over the Panama line passes between ports of tho United States, and about two-fifths between domestic ports and ports of foreign countries. Of the $11,000,000 worth of American merchandise passing westward over the Tehauntopec lino last year $23,-000,000 $23,-000,000 worth wont to San Francisco; $9,000,000 worth to San Diego. $4,500,. 000 worth to Puget sound, $3,500,000 worth to Hawaii and $750,000 worth to foreign countries. Central America, Mexico and British Columbia. Of tho $28,000,000 worth passing eastward over the Tehauntopec line. $20,000,000 worth, chiefly sugar, was from Hawaii, $0,000,000 worth from San Francisco and $1,333,333 worth from Pugel sound. Of the $9,250,000 worth passing pass-ing westward over the Panama line, $5,000,000 worth was destined for foreign for-eign countries on the west coast of America and $4,250,000 worth to tho J?aclfic coast of the United States, chiefly San Francisco; while of the $3,500,000 worth passing eastward over that line, tho entire amount was from - tho port of Sun Francisco. This large and rapidly-growing traffic traf-fic between tho eastern coast of tho United States and western ports of America consists, as relates to tho westward movement of miscellaneous merchandise, while about one-third of the eastern - movement is miscellaneous miscella-neous merchandise, and about two-thirds two-thirds sugar from Hawaii. All of tho west-hound merchandise for wostern ports of tho United States or ports I of foreign countries fronting upon the Pacific was shipped from tho port of New York, while of that passing cast-ward cast-ward across tho translsthmian lines, $20,000,000 worth was from Hawaii, $9,500,000 from San Francisco and $1,-333,333 $1,-333,333 worth from Puget sound bureau bu-reau of Statistics. |