The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-10

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ial correspondence of THE HERALD. l.
A calculation based upon the possible
revenues that will accrue IT, any cana
across Nicaragua, and the expenses OF
maintaining the same, clearly demon
strstes the fact that the enterprise will
prove
A SOUND INVESTMENT,
even at three times the cost as at pres
ent computed.
If the grain market of our great
northwest were wholly in American
ports, the Nicaraguan enterprise would
be matter of less Importance to thai
section; but since it must look to the
old world for the sale of its surplus
grain, it therefore has vital interest in
seeking cheap outlet to European
markets. The trip between Portland
Oregon, and Liverpool, via Nicaragua
would occupy only thirty days; thus
savingIon every cargo of grain more than
ninety days of the time now required in
transit-which, on the average cargo of
1, 800 tons, would leave to the shippers q
most respectable margin of profit.
Not long ago, when Mr.. Charles
Croker, of California, advocated the
Nicaragua canal scheme on the ground
of its vast importance to the west, his
fellow railroad directors were greatly
ar nit ats Al -
would practically kill the Central and
Southern Pacific Railway Companies.
Mr.. Croker assured them that while it
would redu ce the steamship passage be-
tween New York and San Francisco to
less than twenty days, without the cost
of rehandling the goods, it could never
take passenger travel away from the
railroads, only depriving them of the
heavy classes Of freight, on which there
is not much profit.
Said the shrewd millionaire, at will
give the farmers of the Pacific States
market for their grain in New York and
Philadelphia, and enable them to realize
well on everything produced !; give them
more money, and they will not only
consume more articles OF luxury, but
will travel more on our roads,"
Besides the commercial advantages
that will accrue to the United States by
thus practically uniting the oceans, 1t
will maintain our national integrity on
the Pacific and reassert that influence
with the other republics OF this cont.
nent that naturally belongs to the elder
sister. New Orleans will have
BRILLIANT FUTURE,
becoming the near neighbor OF Chilli,
Peru. and other rich countries along
the west coast of South America; while
New York will be brought nearer to
San francisco, and the distance be-
tween other cities proportlonally de-
creased.
On one point, however, there exists a
great and very general error. 1t has
been stated. even in documents sub
mitted to Congress, that "the trade OF
the United States and Europe, with
China, Japan and the Indian Archi-
pelago would be facilitated and in
creased by reason Of shortening the
distance about 1000 miles," and one
alleged authority has asserted that
"From Europe the distance to India
and China would be shortened more
than 10000 miles ~ By actual measure
ment, as any reader may satisfy him
self by referring to the globe, the dis
lance from Europe to India and China
will not be shortened. The European
trade with Canton and India will not
pass through the Nicaraguan Canal
from any consideration of distance, but
because by reason of more favorable
ATTITUDES for winds and currents, it will
be far preferable to the old passage by
the Cape of Good Hope. Therefore it is
to be expected that not only all the
trade of the United States with the
Pacific, without the exception of
single vessel will pass through it but
that of Europe with the western coasts
of the Pacific and the Polynesian
Islands.
It has been found that the Suez Canal
is unable to accommodate the traffic
of more than 5000 600 tons per year
without serious delays to navigation,
owing to its narrow dimensions and in
sufficient number of turn-outs. The
greater dimensions provided for in the
Nicaragua Canal would permit traffic |
of 100000 tons per year. 1t is also |
intended to render navigation uninter- |
rupted, by night as by day, using cleo
trio lights throughout the route. 1t has |
been estimated that $3.50 vessels can |
pass through Nicaragua's canal in a |
wear. nearly 1000 more than now pass
the Nantucket light. The Nicaragua
route will have
THE GREAT ADVANTAGE
over that proposed at Panama by being
Just outside the zone of Gains, so that |
the prevailing winds make it more &C
cessible; besides. the climate is much |
healthier here than below. Though in |
the land of perpetual summer. there is
seldom a night here when blankets are
not acceptable, or MONDAY which |
Is not more tolerable than the streets of |
New York and Chicago in midsummer.
The cooling breath of Atlantic trade
winds almost blend the roar of the surf
n Graytown Bay with the gentler MUIR
nurs of the Pacific, as it breaks on the
oebbly beach at Brlto. During the wet
season - though the windows of
heaven are opened and sheets of water
literally pour through them-there
ire some advantages over the dusty,
Try seasons. not least among them be-
ng the fact that the vins-viRs,
and other pestiferous in
ects are drowned out and the snakes
about which some tall stories are told)
AXE to the woods for safety
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