Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-02
IsTHUMES OF PANAMA AND TE-
HUANTIPEC ARE GREAT
MARTs OF TRAVEL.
! IS INCREASING RAPIDLY
Since 1905 the Business Has Grown
From Million Dollars 10 100
Million Dollars.

worth Of domestic merchandise from
the United States was transported
across the Isthmuses of Panama and
Tehuantepec in the fiscal year. 19l
via the two railway lines connecting,
In the one case. Panama on Pacific
with Colon on the Atlantic and, in
tho other, Sallna Cruz, the Pacific
terminal and Tehuantepec with
Puerto Mexico on the Atlantic.
rans-isthmian traffic betwesl
the eastern and western coasts OF the
United States and between the east
ern ports of our country and Pacific
coast points in Central and South
America has greatly increased in
recent years. In 1906, when tho
Panama railway offered the only
rail connection via the isthmus be-
tween, the Atlantic and the Pacific
coasts. the total traffic amounted to
about 6 million dollars. In 1907, on
January of which year the Tehuan-
tepec railway became available, the
total was 81 million dollars; In 1908,
AZ million; in 1909, 62 million; In
1910, S2A million; and In 1911, 80
million dollars, exclusive of more
than three quarters OF a million dol
lars worth of foreign merchandise,
The growth In traffic by the re-
spective routes has been, according
TO figures compiled by the bureau of
statistics, department Of commerce
and labor; via the Panama railway,
from 10 million dollars In 19>7 to
26 million in 1911; and via the Te-
huantepec railway, from IL u million
In 1907 to 73 IA million In 1911 In
1907 the traffic was almost equally
divided between the two routes, while
last year about three-fourths Of the
total was moved across the isthmus
Of Tehuantepec.
OF the merchandise passing from
the Atlantic coast ports westward
across the isthmuses, aggregating
621h million dollars In value, mil
lion dollars worth went to Hawaii
via Tehuantepec; 4Sh million went
to Pacific coast cities. Al million dol
lars worth being shipped by way of
Tehuantepec and S1a million dollars
worth by way OF Panama; and a lit
tie over S1s million dollars worth
went to foreign countries. of which
all but million dollarsw orth was
by way of Panama. These westbound
shipments left the Atlantic seaboard
at New York and Philadelphia, the
lion dollars value and that of New
York n milliosl. The westward
movement included total of S2 y
million dollars value to San Fran
cisco, 10la million to San Diego, "a
million to Seattle nearly one million
to Los Angeles, about half million
dollars each to Tacoma and Port
land, and smaller amounts to Oak
land and other Pacific coast points.
About so per cent of this traffic was
moved via the Isthmus of Tehuante-
pee. To foreign countries the ship
ment from the Atlantic coast cities,
aggregating Sk million dollars In
1911 as against 3-4 million q year
earlier, were distributed to Peru, 2
million dollars; to Colombia. 1 y
million; Ecuador and Chile, each
about / million; to Central America,
over 2 million, and to Canada, about
100000.
Hawaiin sugar supplies more than
half of the eastbound traffic to cities
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts OF
the United States. The total east
ward movement last year represented
81 million dollars, Of which 1S mil
lion was sugar shipped direct from
Hawaii via Tehuantepec to Delaware
Breakwater for orders. In addition
to this, 16 million dollars worth of
miscellaneous merchandise moved
from San Francisco to the Atlantic
and Gulf coast cities chiefly New
York. Boston. Philadelphia. and New
Orleans. 9h million dollars worth be-
ing via Panama and ~ million via
Tehuantepec. Eastward shipments
from Puget sound via the isthmuses
totaled 1 y million dollars, destined
mostly for New York and Charles
ton. Small shipments were also made
from Astoria and San Diego.