The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua Canal

ARTICLE association Atlantic basin bonds Britain Brito capital Caribbean Sea carried cent Central America Chagres river channel Chontales Clayton-Bulwer treaty coast commerce Company of Nicaragua concession Congress construction contract Corinto cost Costa Rica depth Deseado distance Divide cut dredging embankments engineers enterprise established estimate excavation favour feet per second Government of Nicaragua Granada granted Greytown harbour important inter-oceanic canal isthmus labour Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands laws length Lesseps locks Maritime Canal Company material Menocal ment miles Monroe doctrine nations navigation necessary Nicaragua Canal Ochoa dam opening operation Pacific Ocean Panama parties ports present President privileges proposed railroad railway Republic of Nicaragua river San Juan rock route San Carlos San Francisco San Juan river scheme Senate ship canal slope South Spanish steamers stream Suez Canal summit level surveys tion tons trade traffic treaty United States Government valley vessels volcanic water-way weirs width