Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-02
THE NICARAGUA CANAL
The Canal Committees Address to
the American People
IT WILL CERTAINLY BE BUILT
Table Of Distances Which Will Be
Saved---Tonnage and Receipts of
the Suez Canal
IT WILL CERTAINLY BE BUILT

The committee appointed by the Ma
tional Nicaragua Canal convention at
its meeting in st. Louis, June and 3,
to prepare an address to the American
people giving information as to the
feasibility of the Nicaragua canal and
its commercial advantages to the Uni
ted States, has just finished the prepar-
alton of such address, The committee
is composed of John S. Jones, of Ar
kansas; ex-Congressman Converse, of
Ohio r. w. Millsap, the prominent
banker Of Mississippi Capt. J. f.
Merry, of Manchester, Iowa; S. H.
Hawkins, the railroad president, OF
Georgia Capt. Ambrose Snow, presi-
dent Of the New York Board of Trade
and Transportation, and ex-Gov. John
S. Pillsbury, of Minnesota.
The address is supplementary to the
resolutions adopted by the st. Louis
convention, which pointed out the adj
vantages of the canal and urged its con-
struction, ownership and control blythe
American people rather than the Eng
lish, French or any other nation. 1t
takes the position that a canal, joining
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, should
be constructed for the most important
commercial, strategic and patriotic rea-
sons, and says that the subject of such
a canal is the most vital connected with
the welfare, growth and prosperity of
the United States. 1t declares that the
only feasible route for such a canal is
by way of Nicaragua, and points out
that the conventions of the two great
political parties have endorsed the pro-
ject.
1t appears that all the engineers
have agreed in expressing a decided
preference for the Nicaragua route, be-
cause, among other reasons, only PSI
miles of the entire distance of 1891
miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ocean through Nicaragua will have to
be excavated. The other 1923 miles
consist of Lake Nicaragua, the San
Juan river and depressiOns in the sur
face of the earth. Lake Nicaragua
will constitute a harbor sufficient TO
accommodate the navies and commerce
of the world. 1t is 10 miles long, so
miles wide and is $50 feet at its deepest
points. Vessels entering the canal
from the Atlantic ocean will sail on a
level with the ocean for 123 miles, at
the end of which they will be raised
by three locks to the level of the lake.
They will sail along the San Juan
river and the lake on the lake level to
a point within three and one-half miles
of the Pacific ocean. Here they will be
lowered by the locks to the level of the
Pacific ocean.
The committee says the cost, includ-
ing the payment of interest during the
progress of the work, will be less than
100000, 600, and the time required for
the completion of the work is within
five years. The climate of Nicaragua
is healthy, and out of the 800 northern
men employed in constructing rail-
road through swamp, only two died
during a period of four months. OF
200 northern engineers and skilled me-
chanics who have worked for the canal
company for three years, not one has
died from disease incident to the
country. By the Nicaragua canal the
distance saved is shown by this table: