New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-30
TELLS OF DARIEN ROUTE.
attorney of Isthmian Canal Com
pany GiUes It's Aduantdges.

Regarding a new ard shorter Panama Canal
route, referred TO by General Alfred c. Barnes.
president Of the Aldne Association at the dinner
OF the association on Thursday night known as the
Mandingo-Darien route, Meyer Auerbach. a law
yer. at No. 30 Pine-st, attorney for the Isthmian
Canal Company, made the following statement to
Tribune reporter last evening:
When the Panama treaty first published we
& d ana TIote to the members Of the Commit
been sent, calling their attention to the following
Panama and Colon We're by tbe terms en1 10 6 VII
treaty expressly excluded from the jurisdiction Of
second d That, the treaty required the United
IoInqrg allowing the United States to do it by its
nominees II 1t saw MT
70 select under the terms used any other than the
whatever that the French Panama Company might
because Of the fact that the optoS S Wbcb int
Paama company had given to the United
pred 6y limitation and they could therefore
The Foreign Relations Commitfssa 1enorr az; ,ta,
the treaty should be amended by giving the United
harbors and the dredging thereof but this amend
steHa Goes not go lar enough to give the United
Sttes the required jurisdiction.
d5he1egpon Senator Scott Of Pennsylvania. in
should be appointed to investigate whether the
T ontol t tparlen route or the Panama Canal
the proper committee, -
- ne Etandlngo Darlen route favored bv Pres
luent mckinley, the only question being an cngi-
neeTing one as 10 whether the rock through which
Ine c;thaI would have TO be built was strong
enough Tor the purpose. This fact had not been
demonstrated at the time the SDooner bin was
proposed last year, but subsequently, Professor
Exemption was sent to the Mandingo Darien route
lion ' Trop utposs OF making new geological
III rot AIon ocean 20 ocean. He reported that the
rock was uniform in character very solid and
tenant Colonel Butler, the officer commanding at
OF the rcck more than six times tba strenSth
required for the tunnel ''+0 S'AeAs'u
Lne Mandingo route goes from the Gulf OF San
water IS eighty feet deep within one hundred feet
- -, ue snore' across the narroWest part of the
against 491s from Panama to a fine hoIrhnr Sebiod
tle Pearl Islands. on the Pacific Coast This canal
9 feet deep. 50 feet wide in the narrowest mart I'd
10 teet wide In the narrowest part of the double
The statistics show that at the present time there
are forty ships daily that would use such canal
Both the Panama ami Nicaragua routes II built
the Mandingo could pass 2ss The time OF transit
through this canal. If built would be only six
nouIs from sea 70 sea, while the Panama route
would require fifteen hours and the Nicaragua
thirty-thrce hours. If the Mandingo route Should
be finally selected. the government would save IN
addition TO the s4o0O00O0 which It would under the
proposed treaty have 10 pay to the French Panama
Canal Company the additional s2o000o.OOO or more
NIicn me lowest estimates give the amount re-
oulred TO complete the Panama Canal the propo
suon being simply 70 have the United States under
issue of s1o000o0Go bonds for the Construction Of
tne Mandingo Canal in return for which the gov
It's war vessels use the canal free OF ali charges
Ihus the governments liability would be nothing
the payment Of the principal OF the bonds in which
event, however. under the provisions OF the hill ~
~hoIe canal would become the property of the gov
II the treaty were amended. permitting q choiea
option 81 cpi tne FTsesioent he would have the
show to be the feasible 80 N