Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-30

still continues his mysterious operations.
To-day the Nantucket, the last of the
iron-clads that is finished and available,
was ordered into commission. The COM
| plete list of available iron.olads will now
be ready for the most efficient service in
few days. 1t is said that orders have
been sent to Lisbon directing the entire
Mediterranean squadron to return home.
The entire Torpedo corps is also actively
engaged in the preparation of torpedoes.
These operations are conducted with the
strictest secrecy. Orders have been is.
sued in the Navy Department to permit
no information of the movements of
the lron-clads to be made public. All
these vessels that are on the Atlantic
Coast north of New Orleans have been
ordered to the rendezvous at Norfolk.
A Washington special says the Prea-
dent, in his annual message, will report
to Congress to build ship canal con-
Meeting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The commissioners who make the re.
port were appointed by the Secretary of
the Navy to investigate the merits of
various ship canal routes for the connec-
ton of the Pacific and Atlantic. The
commission is composed of the follow
ing: General Humphreys, Chief En-
gineer Corps of Army; Captain Car
Isle, P. Patterson, Superintendent q.
S. Coast Survey, and Commodore
Daniel Ammen of the U. S. Navy. The
report already completed by the commits
sion is merely preliminary one;
it is to be followed by more
volumiuous report giving more i'll de.
tail the history of the examination and
the reason for the decision at which they
have arrived, that the Nicaragua route
| is the most feasible OF all routes surveyed.
This report will be given to the Presi-
dent, in order that he may be able to
present the matter to Congress in his
message. 1t was thought at first that the
report would be delayed until January and
then sent into Congress with a special
message. The President takes the great
est possible interest in the inter.oceanic
canal scheme and will do all in his
power to promote it's interests. The
| problem Of connecting the two oceans
has been one that has occupied the at
tention, as the report says, of statesmen,
navigators and mariners for the last 375
years. The enormous saving of distance,
I time, cost and risks which It would give
to the world, has been carefully tabulated.
There remains nothing to show but the
feasibility of the route; this the commits.
sioners' report claims has been done in
the survey made upon the Nicaragua
route. 1t is now regarded as OF the high.
est importance that the United States will
take some action at once to.carry out the
feasible plan of this canal in order to
prevent either France or England from
coming in and reaping the honor and
profits of this great enterprise. The re-
suit OF this work cannot be fully esti-
mated; the great saving in the carrying
trade and the facilitation of the connec-
ton between Eastern Asia and Western
America with Europe cannot be readily
calculated. When the canal is completed
nearly one half of the carrying trade of
! the world will be revolutionized. The
Commission has made most thorough
examination OF all the evidence before it
and will urge upon Congress the need of
speedy action. Besides the testimony of
naval officers who have made the surveys
they had also the testimony of civil
commission composed OF Messrs. Walker
and Ammen and Maj. Mcfarland of the
army engineer corps, who have examined
carefully the feasibility of the ship canal.
In examining the various reports, OBJ
jections OF an almost unsurmountable
nature were found in all, but the Nicara-
| qua route is longer route than any of
the others with the exception perhaps of
OF Tehuantipec route, but its other ad.
vantages more than compensate for the
bad feature of its length. 1t is the only
route where the climate is not dangerous
to health. In the lower routes malarial
influences would destroy the greater
portion of the workmen before the canal
was completed. 1t is also the only route
in which proper supply of water could
be found. Lake Nicaragua is on this
route, being able to furnish convenient
and uniform supply Of water. The
other routes are very defective in many
other ways. They extend through q
worthless waste OF country that is i'm
possible of Development The route
through Nicaragua is represented as the
paradise of Central America and one that
will return untold wealth under proper
development. For the sum of sixty
odd million the Commission claim that
an enormous return would be made.
One item alone it is thought would make
the expense of building the canal a
grand investment; that Of shipment
OF California products to European and
ports upon the Atlantic Coast, but more
especially to Europe. California ships
every year large quantities of wheat to
the European markets, and at present
all of this wheat has to go around by
Cape Horn, meeting the dangers of that
stormy quarter and encountering long
delay and expense that would all be oh.
waited by the canal. To allow any
foreign power to build this canal and we
pay taxes to them for its use is some.
thing which the Commission thinks the
people of this country would neve,
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