Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-12-28
~. a,..t American Enterprise


by the French spectators and our for.
eien commercial rivals, IL building under
United States auspices would remove
from ia all dlsagreeabIe complication
with European governments a. 10 the
future control Of the Panama route. The
bright prospects which the bill for ineor-
porating the Nicaragua Company have
Of passing the House Of Repre- .entatiye-
and It's already secured approval by the
Senate, are indications Of the stron. hold
the enterprise has obtained among our
leading men Of both political parties in
Washington. Said representative Of
thi. scbeme recettly-1he effect Of the
failure Of the Panama undertaking on the
Nicaragua Canal enterprise IL difficult
~ estimate. u removes from our way
possible claimant to rivalry ~ water
way, but further than this and the probs-
bic concentration Of attention and inter
eat IN the NisaragHa Canal, / can see no
immediate effect. We have never seriously
regarded the Panama Canal a. rival, be-
cause, even II the Panama route had
practicable the general use Of sailing
vessels Oh account % the windless area
that extends Into the Pacific from the
vicinity Of Panama Bay. The Panama
Canal would have been as useless for
sailing craft a. the suez Canal, through
which only one sailing vessel has ever
passed, and that was pleasure yacht. -
"We have every reason 10 believe IA 1t
we shall begin work on the canal next
spring, and that We shall then push il
forward to completion with the utmost
rapidity. on course II IL impossible To
say exactly when the work will be com
pleted, but from the very best engineer
ing opinion. that We have been able to
secure the maximum Of time will not e1-
coed six years. A. G.. Aenocal, chief
engineer Of the lsi'ed States NAVY.
made governmental survey of the route
10 1872 and 1873, personal survey in
1880, another Governmental survey in
1885, and survey for us this year. Each
time he was better pleased with the route
than before. Although the proposed
route Of the Nicaragua Canal ia 20 miles
In length, there are really only &c miles
that present engineering problems or OBJ
stacles that are at all formidable. Lake
Nicaragua, which ia 30 miles long, %
miles wide, and TOO feet deep. lies directly
In the course Of the canal and IA drained
To the eastward by the san Juan River.
that alone affords free navigation for %
miles, aud that requires hardly any
engineering At all.
"Our real work therefore Is. in rough de-
tall, "a follows brsakwater ut Grrytown,
on the Caribbean Sea, dredging thence to
the westward 10 IA miles. through lagoons
swamps' ard low g'owns, then lock of ~
feet IN. Two miles further is \ second
lock. or double lock, of the combined lift of
10 feet and dnm across the Desead River,
small stream, above which are four miles
Of free navigation Then comes the hardest
nut OF all. rock cut Of three miles in
length. The rock, however. is solid. and
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Another provision Of the concession va. that
The canal people should do two things
ks"ae construction company ami organize I