The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05

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NICARAGUA CANAL.-Mrs. E. F. D. NJ, Jeffer-
son, Marion County, Or. According to the
latest survey the cost of constructing the
Nicaragua canal will be $50,O00,O00 and the
time OF construction six years. According to
the plans the summit level of the canal will be
10 feet above mean sea level and will be
reached at each extremity by three locks, each
$50 feet long and 65 feet wide. An artificial
lake and repairing basin for ships in transit
will be created by means OF a dam across the
San Juan River and an embankment across the
San Carlos, near their junction, and from the
last lock to Greytown on the east and to Britc
on the west the canal viii be enlarged, thus
forming an extension of the harbors, where YES
sells can pass each other without detention
The length from Greytown to Brito is 169.0S
miles. The most serious engineering difficult
ties will be in the great divide cut across the
San FRANCISCO range through lnTee-IHlle
stretch of rock with an average depth OF 10
feet and the restoration of GreytoWn harbor,
long ago destroyed by the deposit OF silt from
the San Juan. The International Company
was incorporated in San Francisco in May,
1898 to aid in the construction OF the canal
from Brito to Lake Nicaragua, the Pacific
end of it.
THE SENDER AT FAULT-H. Nee, City. If a
person wishes to send money by mail to an
other the proper course is to obtain money
order, which for $40 costs cents. In the case
YOU mention the sender undertook to send $40
in coin through the mails and in order to save
the cents the money order would cost, placed
the money between cardboards in such man
ner as TO attract attention to 1t, and in that
manner lead some one with dishonest turn
of mind to suspect that it was very valuable
package The letter was never delivered, but
The Government will never be able to trace it..
1t was case in which the sender, in order to
save few cents, took chances OF Its safe de-
livery 1t appears to have fallen into dishonest
hands and now he has an experience that has
cost him the amount OF money he inclosed and
the knowledge that it is best to follow the
safest methods
To MOUNT DIABLo-Tramper, City. Those
who wish to make the ascent of Mount Diablo
and return 10 this City on Sunday night should
leave here at either 7;30 in the morning of
Saturday or o'clock of the same day, take the
train to Danville, Contra Costa County. and
take the private road that runs through COOK s
Ranch, but first permission must be obtained
from the owner. The principal OBJECT OF the
tramp is to be at the top OF the mountain TO see
the sun rise, so those who start on MONDAY
morning can reach the top before nlght1aIl,
and have to remain on the apex. Those who
start in the afternoon generally rest at the nall
way house, when 1t is open, ana hnlSn the as
lent early in the morning. Inc view having
heen obtained, the descent can be maze lels-