The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-05-14
RAIL TRAFFIC ON TEHUANTEPEC AND
PANAMA TRANS-|STHM|AN LINES, 1918
Roads Carry s13o5ooooo Worth of Merchandise, Brought to
Their Termni by Ships From U. S. to Be Reloaded at
Opposite Termni and Shipped to Other
Ports, U. s. and Foreign

New Orleans shipments via this
route were all consigned to foreign
countries, chiefly those on the South
American west coast, the largest be-
ing 100000 worth to Ecuador, $685.
900 worth to Peru, $4,000 worth to
Chile and $4,000 worth to Nicaragua.
San Francisco utilized the isthmian
railways in shipping $14,600,000 worth
of merchandise to New York, $1,720,-
600 to Massachusetts, $436,O0 to Phil
adelphia, and S4,S30,000 worth to for
eign countries, chiefly Germany,
France, the Netherlands. England and
Belgium.
Hawaii's isthmian traffic all passed
over the Tehuantepec line and includ-
ed $17,965,000 worth consigned for or
ders to Delaware Breakwater and
$187 900 worth to foreign countries.
Manufactures supplied most of the
west-bound sugar, fruits, wines, wool
and canned salmon most of the east
bound traffic in domestic products
between the Pacific and Atlantic coast
ports of the United States. Thus the
westward movement in the calendar
year 1913 included Ga million yards of
cotton cloth; II million dollars worth
of iron and steel manufactures, con-
sisting largely of machinery, tools and
hardware; million gallons of mineral
oil; az million dollars worth of chem
icals and medicines; 6 million dollars.
worth of paper manufactures; over /
million dollars worth of cordage and
Irvine, and large quantities of boots
and shoes, soap, perfumeries and cos
metics, chinaware, glassware, brass
and aluminium goods, automobiles and
other carriages, smoking tobacco and
oysters and other fish.
Pacific coast foodstuffs received on
the Atlantic seaboard via these 18TH
milan railways included last year 528
million pounds of Hawaiian sugar, to
be refined chiefly at New York and
Philadelphia, 81 million pounds of
prunes, IL million pounds of raisins,
over million pounds of dried peaches,
nearly l million pounds of dried april
cots, 1919 million gallons of wines and
80 million pounds of canned salmon.
Wool (12 million pounds), quicksilver,
manufactures of leather, hops, copper
in ore, matte and pigs; chemicals, as
phaltum and lumber also figured to
an appreciate extent in the move
ments of merchandise southwark
along the Pacific coast, eastward
across the isthmian railways and
northward along the Atlantic coast to
our leading coast cities.
Tehuantepec isthmus is a. forgotten
section in the present Mexican
troubles. Word occasionally, however,
comes from there 1t shows that the
isthmus while overlooked in the gen.
eral melee, is not forgotten by Zapata
and Huerta.
The isthmus is SO far disconnected
from the main current of revolution
airy events that until recently it's geo.
graphical existence has been ignored.
Now there are signs that it expects
to be heard from whenever peace
comes to Mexico and the reconstruc-
ton of the country begins.
President Wilson's theories of con-
stitutional government will find no
suffragette bar in Tehuantepec such
as may develop with the Indian wom-
en- of other parts of Mexico. Won
ems rights have prevailed immemo--
rally there, and when it comes to lay
ing the foundation for permanent
peace the Tehuana Indian women will
be of more account than the men, as
they have been under the tribal GUS
toms for centuries.
Tehuantepec has other worries than
the revolutionary disturbances, and
these are what cause the disquiet over