Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-08
RAILROAD ACROSS TEHUlNTEpEc.

In the Journal of Commerce Of the Sd instant we find
the following editorial article in relation to the conteIa
plated road across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec The
table OF distances will doubt attract public attention
The Journal states that very material saving of distance
IN communicating with the Pacific will be gained by the
use OF the railroads in progress and in contemplation
as well as by improvements in shore navigation It init
mates that the distance from New Orleans to the Pacific
via the Iehuanepec route be accomplished in three
days, and that from the terminus to San Francisco in
days. thus making the passage from Boston or New
York IN fourteen days We copy the entire article
TEHUANTEPEc PLANK ROAD AND RAILwAy-We are in
formed that contract for the execution of this important
work has been concluded by the company known the
Tehuantepec or Soo company, with the firm of JAMES
SYKES Co., of Sheffield, England. The Messrs. Sykes
well known eminent railroad contractors and they
have been, and now are engaged in constructing rails
roads in Great Britain, the Continent, and in Canada
They have made arrangements to commence the plank
road across said sthmus the will per-
nit, and will finish it within year Under the Sloo
contract with the Mexican Government the plank road is
to be commenced by the 9th Of February next and
pleted within year from that date and the railroad is
to be finished within FIVE years after Arrangements have
been made to complete both Of these works within the
terms specified
The prompt execution of this long delayed work is de-
manded by the commercial interests of the whole world
1t will afford easy channel Of INSTRUMENTATION be-
tween the Eastern and Western hemisperes It opens
to Europe and to Atlantic America the ongdescd gate
70 NhNe IL gives shortest anu most d.
route the Pacific it the advantage of
temperate and ever salubrious climate.
70 the United States the opening of this line Of
muncaon will be Of especial Importance for will give
us Immediately ready access to the new and growing
State of California and to the other States OF this Union
that to rise the Pacific coast and will pro-
mote and facilitate the ultimate construction of railroads
to the Pacific through territory which
are generally believed to tend the permanence of the
existing Union, and to continued enjoyment of the
benefits of an increasing with the Pacific and
with the shores of Asia.
At various times the attention and efforts Of CONNER
cal nations have been directed though without success
to the opening of this transit Some projects for it
formed by William Pitt. The great Humboldt strongly
urged it. after having rayersed the whole region through
which transits had been contemplated In 1914 the
Spanish Cortes passed decree for the construction of
canal across the Isthmus Of Tehuanepec but the
renee of the revolution in the Spanish American pro-
vinces prevented the execution Of the work In 1924 the
line of this route surveyed by Gen. 0rbegon under
the direction of Board of Commissioners supported by
the Mexican Government
The following table Of distances was published in Pha-
delpho in 1853, b. Mr. Mellish showing the distance
be saved by this transit, to wit:
Statute Miles
The ordinary from Philadelphia via Cape Horn