The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-01

West and South will be electrified with indus
trial prosperity. Our markets will increase IN
number and amount New industries wiii oe
everywhere created and old ones better maui
tsined. New fields be open to labor and safe IN
vestments afforded to capital Then the AMER
can nations, which are all republics, Will DC
able TO maintain one American policy IN the
Western worlds policy of peace ana CONNER
cial Independence, and then the prosecution o.
their trade and commerce and the perpetuity ..
their institutions will rest alone witn tneh o"A
people.
Resolution, were adopted to the effect that
the governor OF California be respectfully
requested to communicate with Cover
nors of all states and territories, requesting
them to send delegates to the national Nlcars'
qua convention to be held at st. Louis on 'une
2, and that delegates to said convention. as near
as may be, be chosen in equal numbers from the
two great national parties. Further, that an e4-
ecutive committee OF nine members De APP
pointed by the chairman of this convention to
have full charge of all the preliminary steps
necessary to holding said national convention
The following was also adopted: We believe
that the savings to the g-sernment IN nn'ai
construction, equipment and maintenance alone
will be equal to the whole cost OF the canai
across Nicaragua; that 1t will double the EN-
cheney of our navy without any enhancement
of cost and cons titute in itself powerful guar
antee for the preservation of peace on the hlgn
seas; that neither party nor sectional lines %
drawn on this great American project is ap-
plauded by this convention, which calls on the
national conventions of both political rarties
now about to assemble to give formal indorse-
ment to the same, and to pledge their respective
candidates to the support of an undertaking 80
calculated to rebound to the credit and welfare
of our country.
A letter from Hon. Warner Miller, presi-
dent of the canal construction company,
was read. stating:
Work has been actively continued upon the
canal during the past year. and substantial pro-
g-ess has been made. About 100000 has been
expended upon the work during the past year.
The work accomplished has been chiefly upon
the extension of the railroad and upon the
dredging OF the canal proper, beginning at the
harbor of Greytown. The railroad has been
completed about the distance Of twelve miles,
reaching up beyond the location of the first
lock, and some grading has been done beyond
this point. The first mile of actual canal has
been dredged to the depth Of seventeen feet OF
water. and to the width of go feet. This work
Of dredging has demonstrated the fact that the
first ten miles of the canal are through
soil which is both easy to dredge and which
will maintain its position after the work has
been completed. The company has been able
to maintain a depth of fourteen feet on the bar,
which proves that the engineers plans for
opening the harbor of Greytown were good, and
tina: when the breakwater shall have been ex-
tended the distance contemplated IL will es
able to obtain thirty feet of water upon the bar
and maintain it. The surveys upon the western
end of the canal have been recently completed.
The lands necessarr for the construction of the
conal there had been appropriated by the
Nicaragua government and are in condition
that work could now be undertaken on them.