The Panama canal. 2 v1916 |
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Strana 5 - If the work should ever be executed, so as to admit of the passage of sea vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to any one nation, but should be extended to all parts of the globe, upon the payment of a just compensation, or reasonable tolls.
Strana 118 - ... of fifty years and upon the expiration of said term of fifty years the system of sewers and water works shall revert to and become the properties of the cities of Panama and Colon respectively, and the use of the water shall be free to the inhabitants of Panama and Colon, except to the extent that water rates may be necessary for the operation and maintenance of said system of sewers and water.
Strana 118 - ... and protection of the Canal and of any works of sanitation, such as the collection and disposition of sewage and the distribution of water in the said cities of Panama and Colon, which, in the discretion of the United States may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said Canal and railroad. All such works of sanitation, collection and disposition of sewage and distribution of water in the cities of Panama and Colon...
Strana 5 - ... I am certain that they will do it. " Would that I might live to see it ! — but I shall not. I should like to see another thing, — a junction of the Danube and the Rhine. But this undertaking is so gigantic that I have doubts of its completion, particularly when I consider our German resources. And thirdly, and lastly, I should wish to see England in possession of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. Would I could live to see these three great works ! it would be well worth the trouble to...
Strana 17 - Nicaraguan route and the Panama route, with a view to determining the most practicable and feasible route for such canal together with the proximate and probable cost of constructing a canal at each of two or more of said routes...
Strana 17 - Commission is of the opinion that ' the most practicable and feasible route ' for an Isthmian canal, to be ' under the control, management, and ownership of the United States ' is that known as the Nicaragua route.
Strana 273 - gives the mean flow for the day when the mean gage height was highest. As the gage height is the mean for the day, it does not indicate correctly the stage when the water surface was at crest height and the corresponding discharge was consequently larger than given in the maximum column. Likewise, in the column headed " Minimum " the quantity given is the mean flow for the day when the mean gage height was lowest. The column headed " mean " is the average flow in cubic feet for each second during...
Strana 28 - Time of transit through completed Canal (hours)... 10 to 12 Time of passage through locks (hours) 3 Relocated Panama Railroad, total cost...
Strana 11 - Commission was established. Its members were General AA Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, United States Army; CP Patterson, Superintendent of the Coast Survey; and Commodore Daniel Ammen, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy. Under the directions of this commission explorations were conducted in various parts of the isthmian territory. The Tehuantepec route was surveyed by a party of which Captain Shufeldt had charge.
Strana 57 - This suggestion, however, loses force under the consideration that the Panama Canal is but one of the agencies of transportation that the government of the United States has fostered between the Atlantic coast and the Pacific. The government has from the beginning of railroad construction in the United States encouraged their construction and operation by private capital and enterprise. Some of these transcontinental lines would not have been built had it not been for the liberality the government...