Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-03-14
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH I2, 1851,
JUNCTION OF THE TWO OCEANS.

JUNCTION OF THE TWO OCEANS.
The Tehuanepcc Treaty. ratified by the Senate IS sa'' ~
grant to our citizens about five millions OF acres oil inc
fertile land on the globe, for the construction oil
from the Guatzacualco TO the Gulf of Tehuantepec
the same time gives them similar and exclusive
for the construction of any route across any pol' ~
| Mexican territory.
Our resources on the Pacific sde and the East inoia ana
China trade will is reasonably expected furnish
business in transporting merchandise ana passengers "
the Tehuanepec Nicaragua and indeed all the routes co'
tcmplated. =
Commander Vanderbilt enterprising American ohe u
The Nicaragua Canal Company TO connect o ''ai' a'
Pacific lust returned from that country o's o
that the work is not only feasible, ana 'a '' u.
.x, n tho av of constructing ship CANAL but that IN the
language of the n Y. Herald, il VIII cna"ee INC eoui'e "
commerce and make this the great mart :" 'e "oiu anu
,ho oon,ro r. universal trade Some time in June next
transit roue will be opened rio Nicaragua or inc convey
of messengers and freight from tho Atlantic to the
;e. -, c. L,r.,c;sco in California Capt V. has made
oa,, - tho II Government for carrying the mails lie
I'm , civ 6rs, class steamships on the route, and Will
,oo n carry The II S. and California mails for SlSOoOO
year.
The survevors and engineers who have been very busy
have occordnp 10 the Herald, fixed upon routes tor snip
the Lake Of Nicaragua and the Pacinc ocean,
and alan road for passengers and freight from the extrem
~ If TINT lake 10 the Bay OF San Juan on the Pacc el
examining in thorough manner the whole OF that country
tho engineers at length selected point on Rio Lagas which
emnt;es into the Lake of Nicaragua the Atlantic sld ter
minus of the ship canal and certain point on the o
rande which empes into the Pacific ocean, for the tern-
mia IN that side The Rio Grande terminates al the haroor
of Bar,o which, understand possesses every requisite
for the pupose for which has been selected The whoe
distance from one terminus the other but nineteen
miles, The summit of the highest ground on the roue
above the surface of the lake. ia but fortyeght ce una
for distance of seven miles and half from the lake, inc
ground runs down to level with the water III VIII be per-
ceiyed therefore that which has been selected Oh
fers uncommon advantages for the construction OF snip
canal 1t certain however that this viii be the route
that will ultimately be chosen, better one mayer &c
discovered.
In regard the transit route, the land portion Oh VIII
commence at Virgin bay Lake Nicaragua ana emu al
San Juan harbor the Pacific the distance between 'e
two points being twelve miles and thirty chains almost IN
straight line and through remarkably healthy county
The whole will be follows from New orK 10 San
Juan by steamship the Castlan rapids on inc oan
Juan river bv steamboat from this point to the river above
these rapd. distance of hundred yards by land
thence by the river San Juan and the Lake Nicaragua 10
Virgin bay thence San Juan harbor the Pacific dis
lance of twelve miles by land and thence 10 San Francisco
by steamship Making liberal allowances for delays, &c.
this will bring San Francsco within twenty days Of New
York being many days shorter than the connection can be
made by nny other route.