Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-01-11
lsTHMIAN TRAFFIC.
Great Volume Of Commerce by Panama
and Tehuantepec.

and Tehuantepee.
| More than sixty million dollars
worth Of American merchandise was
carried by rail across the isthmuses Of
Panama and Tehuantepec In the fiscal
year 1909. and in the calendar year
which ends with next month the total
will probably reach seventy-five mil
lions in value. OF the two railway
lines which now carry freight across
the narrow neck Of land connecting
North and South America, that at the
! Isthmus Of Panama is forty miles in
| length; the other, at the Isthmus
Of Tehuantepec, 100 miles. The one
at Panama, owned by the government,
is, Of course, largely devoted to work
and traffic growing out Of the con-
struction of the Panama canal; the
other at Tehuantepec, 100 miles In
length. constructed chiefly with Brit
ish capital and controlled in part at
least by the Mexican government, was
built especially for the purpose of
handling freights between the Allan
tic and Pacific, and, although OPEN
ed at the beginning Of 1907. has al
ready carried about one hundred mill
lion dollars worth Of merchandise
passing chiefly between the Atlantic
and Pacific ports Of the United States.
Reports received by the bureau of sta
tistics Of the department Of commerce
and labor show that the Tehuantepec
railway, which crosses the isthmus at
Tehuantepec In the southern part OF
Mexico carrying the freights received
from the steamship lines plying be-
tween the great ports Of the United
States and the eastern and western
termini, carried In the first year ofits
operation-1e07 = between twenty
five and thirty million dollars worth
Of merchandise; In the second year
1908-nearly thirty-eight million
dollars worth, and In the present
year 1t will exceed fifty million dol
lars In the value Of the freight car
ried by It. The Panama railroad, en-.
gagged chiefly as above suggested In
work in behalf Of the Panama Canal.
carr,ed IN 1907 ahout twelve million
dollars, worth NJ roercband,.a or,g,na,-
ing In the United States and bound
either for other parts Of this country
n'vo,
- 800 ~ n -
the same total.
Inc iherchaiioise passing over the
Isthmus railways In the year ending
June 80, 1909, included thirty-six mil
lion dollars, worth or,o,notino on tha
- ~. r,-,..s e.s
eastern eoas' VI tue oii.eu Seaees anu
destined for Pacific ports, including
both the United States and foreign
countries border,n1 IN tba pac,Ac ana
..... -. 49,
t"enty-siA hiihon oonars worm orig
mating on the Pacific coast and at the
60, ro-.. :, .sa I,a,..s o...s
80 -. oeu
VI the mercnanoise crossing py way
Of the Panama railway. nine million
dollars worth moved from the Allan
-. A.. n.a ,,..,.
'ie ~ 'he raenie' anu h.ao ieso 'iiah
two million dollars worth from the
Pacific to the Atlantic. OF the nine
millions crossing from the Atlantic
side IN tho paci6c coast hv tba pana.
~ ~
ma hne' -FOUR miihons were oesuned
to the western ports OF the United
States, and five millions to foreign
oo,,.r,.s -,o,a+aa ,non .ha poo,eo
Souii'iios upoh 'ne
coast OF America
The business of the Tehuantepec
line. although much larger in its value
than that of the Panama route. in
cluded chiefly rnerchandise moving