Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-02

The gross addition would amount to
the enormous sum of $1,000, 900, 900,
even at this low estimate of 81 addi-
tional. The fruit industry of Califor-
mia would quadruple in two years from
the opening of the canal for business
and fast refrigerator steamers would
deliver fruit from California to New
York in ten days, to Liverpool in
eighteen days, and to New Orleans in
eight days. The mountains of the
Pacific coast are rich in lead, copper,
silver and gold, while the pla-
teaux and valleys afford a
cereal belt with a soil more dur
able, and more favorable seasons for
seeding and harvesting than any part
of the world, and the committee thinks
the completion of the Nicaragua canal
is only needed to develop that country
to production of gigantic proportions
and double the population of the Pa
citic coast in few years. The cotton
growing sections of the gulf states have
undergone a depression, and the COM
mittee believes that nothing could be
of greater immediate advantage than
the canal in relieving that depression,
and making a market for American
cotton in Japan, China and Corea,
where already the people are beginning
to manufacture cotton goods by ma
chinery. Japan imported over 7,000,-
600 pounds of American cotton in 1891
most of which was shipped from New
Orleans to New York and then by rail
10 Vancouver and steamship to Japan.
At present the coal trade of South
America and the Pacific coast is
monopolized by the English. The
committee thinks that if the Nicaragua
canal were opened the Alabama and
West Virginia coal would have a de-
cided advantage over English COM
petitors, not to mention the enormous
amounts of coal the company itself
would use. At the entrance of the
Suez canal last year 100000 tons OF
coal were sold. In competition with
England for Pacific ocean trade the
Nicaragua canal would give American
commerce an advantage of 1000 miles,
while besides the specific benefits, the
committee thinks great general bene-
fits will accrue to the entire Mississippi
valley, the lake ports and the Atlantic
coast. Ship building and the shipping
interests in New England will receive
a new impetus. A new coasting trade
will spring up and American tonnage
on the high seas will largely increase.
The committee says that great trans
Atlantic powers are looking with COW
etous eyes toward the Nicaragua pro-
ject and that foreign governments
would very cheerfully and eagerly en-
brace an opportunity to take advantage
of the enterprise with unlimited CAPT.
tai and prompt energy, but it conceives
it to be the patriotic and political priv
ilege of the United States to complete
the canal. The commercial and naval
supremacy of the nation which might
secure control of the canal demands
imperatively that its control should not
pass away from the people of the Uni
ted States. 1t is made plain that two
fleets would be required to block an
American fleet in Nicaragua where one
would be necessary elsewhere. AS a
foothold from which to attack or de-
fend, to threaten or protect all the
coasts, islands and adjacent seas, it is a
more commanding power than Gibral-
tar.
Among the beneficial results foreseen
are more practical drawing together
of the remote parts of the vast domain
of the world and a firmer cohesion of
the widely-separated sections of the
United States, added to a stronger feel
ing of neighborhood and community
between the Atlantic and Pacific sea-
boards. The contamination of the
work, whose feasibility has already
been demonstrated, Is asserted to be OF
far greater importance to the western
hemisphere than the Suez canal is to
the eastern. 1t is said that no prece-
dent can be cited upon which to pre-.
dict the future of American commerce
when the gateway of the Inter-O Oceanic
canal across Nicaragua shall be open to
it,
All surveys and examination of strata
requiring removal have been COM
pleted. The jetty has been constructed
and the harbor of Greytown has been