Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17
ClMMERCIAL UNION.

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A COMMERCIAL UNION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. u The United
States consul at San Salvador has made
report to the Department OF State In
regard to the railway system OF Central
Amsrlca. He says that President
Menendez of Salvador is an earnest
friend Of the United States, Snd like the
late President BArriOs OF Gustemala
fayors the assimilation Of the institutions
and business msthods of this country
BArrios projected the construction
Of q railway from the bsy of
San Tomas on the Carribian
sea to Gu.tamalG City, distance OF loo
miles where it wss TO connect with the
existing narrow-gauge on the Gustemsls
Central, seventy five miles in length, ter
minGting on the Pacific at Topenro in
stead of San Jose. Forty miles of this
trsnecontinental road from Puerto Bar
rios to Guatemala City were half finished
at the time Of Bsrrios' death. His sue.
cessor, President Barrillos, pursues the
same policy, faVoring the construction OF
| the Transisthman and other railways pro-
jecteo 10 GuStemAls, particularly the one
| designed TO connect the capitals OF Guste-
malls and Mexico.
"Io truth" the consul says "Senor
Bsrrillos and other Central American
statesmen hava not failed to discover
inst no Central American Union Is desir-
ale which msy be pinned together with
| bsyonets, and none desirable and endur-
| ing can be achieved save through an in
terstate railway system"
After referring 10 the unhealtbful eli
mate OF Central America at sea level the
consul says: "Tne Nicaragua causl and
the ship railway and DeLesseps canal,
each and all are sea level. No soft, cooling
wind from the Pacific may fud its
way into either canal or follow
the gigantic locomotives, Juggling ST
the ships crossing the Tehauntepec, and
the scclimated alone may cross the I'm
tinent ia tafety at the sea level; but there
| is perfect
IMMUNITY FROM CLIMATIC DIsEAsEs
the instant the traveller reaches an eleva-
don Of 1000 feet above the sea
Commerce therefore will traverse the
| ship railway and canal. Men and won, Z
| RIll prefer this tran sisthmisn railway,
nsving perfectly land locked haIbor
each terminus and an elevation at nc
point after leaving the coast OF less thar
1000 feet above the level of the two
oceans. Z"
After describing the wonders Of the
inferior country, such IS fsthomless
lakes, extinct and active volcanoes, and
relics Of antiquity, the consul continues
nTte rsilwsy crosses the state OF S .
Ans in Salvador, fifty miles square, pro-
duciIg il Is stated more coffee than any
equal ares of leud in the world. In truth
every acre in San Salvador is cultivated
each producing from two to four CROP
Annually. The railway penetrates frou
L. Union to Puerto B2rrios or to Por'
Isabel, whichever hsrbtr may be 1T
northern terminus, s very paradise. TIE
average density OF population along the
whole route exceeds 100 for each squar,
mile Here villages and towns arc
almost continuous, and the population
Aztecs SO per cent and Spanish 8 pei
cent, toll most industriously. Labor
costs 90 to 25 cents and food 10 cents PEI
diem. There is not stove or fire place
IN ANY ROUSE
in the republic None are needed where tht
thermometer never falls below 70' o.
rises shove So So great is the annual
production OF fruit, IS well ss of indigo
sugar aud coffee, and so short the dis
lance from Bsrrios to Mobjls, that it i,
brlieved the most delicste and deliciou:
tropical fruits, never seen In the United
StsJss, will be distributed everywhere
from MOBILE, and so redundant are tn,
crops Of Salvador and OF the district Of
Guatemals, penetrated by this railway
that it must hsye Two trscks-ope fol
immense local, the other for for inter
oceanic freights snd travel. But the
CREST good to be achieved by thi;
trGns-isthmian road consists not 81
much in fact that 1t will enable trsvelin!
multitudes N cross the continent where
narrowest without possible danger from
the deadly fevers and plaques incident t
detention st the sea level, but with til
branches, binding together those fv'