The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-05-20
NUMBER 81



Two events will have occurred In
the year 1869 which will make it
memorable in the worlds history-the
completion of the Pacific Railroad
and the opening of the Suez Canal.
The former is achieved, and the latter
will be deferred but about six months.
Both are stupendous undertakings,
and both will have an immense infu~
ence upon the future course of trade
In due time the Darien and Niagara
canals will be constructed, in obe-
dience to the same great law which
has reopened the ancient water pas /.
sage from the Mediterranean to the
Red Sea, ofwhich there are now numer
Gus traces. and which Herodotus de-
scribes as being hundred years in
building. 1t is more than twenty
five hundred years old, yet the en-
gineer of the present work have found
1T advantageous to follow it's line In
many places. s Il t4a5d Io ,5l q,
In 1916, after the success of the.
overland route to Suez had been
demonstrated by the rush Of British
Indian travel through Cairo. com
mission was issued to- Robert Steph~-5
enson, the great British engineer,
Talbot, ssthe prince Of French con-
tractors Z and aNegretti, noted Aus
trian chemist and engineer, to SUR
yey a route and pronounce upon the.
feasibility of the work. Their report
was favorable and settled, among 9TH
|er mooted points, the question which
the commissioners of the first Ma
pOleon raised in regard to the differ
|ence of. level between the two seas,.o
htheyasserted to beaboltt thirty
two feet. No; oappreciable difference.
however, has been found to exist.
Although the Suez Canal is the work
Of combined Europe, the fact that it
owes its origin to Frenchman, and
that Napoleon III has led the van in
efforts to complete it--doubtless hav-
ing in view results similar to those
aimed at by his uncle-will enable
France to justly claim much of the
glory of Its construction. IA III III S 3.,'.
T The northern end of the canal com, :
mences at Port Said, where harbo,
has been constructed by running out
two immense piers of over q mile in
length. The banks ofthe canal ex-
tend southwark for thirty miles {
through Lake Menzaleh, which is
little more than a great 5marsh,, and :
is made by embankments of sand 10
solidi6ed. by saline mud. From the
southern shore Of Lake Menzaleh to
the Bitter Water Lake, distance Of
about thirty miles more, the canal is
mostly deep cut, Thence for anoth-g
er thirty miles It is a channel made
by enabankments, until,it strikes the !
line Of the ancient cut, which it folk
lows to Suez, on the Red Sea. It's
depth of water is about 80 feet, aud
its average'width somethingover 200 !
feet. When completed, the commerce "a
of Western and Southern Europe, e
and Of Eastern America with South
ern and Eastern Asia, will pass 3.
through it. a29o2 ..5 ia IN, s.'s2s ~ 'o's7
Aglance at the map Of. the worI I, \
will show how absurd lis the -iidesis /
that even the opening Of the Dasie q
Canal can divert any Of this trad
across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocae4
Through the Mediterranean and R3~ {
Seas will soon pass the most of that ,.
commerce which has doubled the
Cape Of Good Hope for centuries. It :
is mistake to suppose, I thdugh 3
that the completion Of the Suez Ca q
nal Is to have any direct influence
upon the commerce of the United
States, except possibly, that with
Australia. But its influence upon
the vast trade between the rich mar
thine ports Of Europe and Asia viii
be incalculable. n.i p otai sm.afc ss,
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