The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua CanalA. Constable, 1895 - Počet stran: 443 |
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Strana 8
... Operations were com- menced on the Culebra cut last October ( thereby just saving the concession ) , and work is in hand . It is claimed that a thorough survey of the isthmus , -including an elaborate system of borings , to ascertain ...
... Operations were com- menced on the Culebra cut last October ( thereby just saving the concession ) , and work is in hand . It is claimed that a thorough survey of the isthmus , -including an elaborate system of borings , to ascertain ...
Strana 60
... operation of all the machinery required to do the work . The stupendous character of this work will be apparent from the fact that with the section proposed a probable total of about 12,000,000 yards will have to be extracted and ...
... operation of all the machinery required to do the work . The stupendous character of this work will be apparent from the fact that with the section proposed a probable total of about 12,000,000 yards will have to be extracted and ...
Strana 63
... operations on this work with a con- siderable sinking of the heart . There the slips started , I believe , about 100 to 150 feet below the surface ( as far as my memory serves me ) , the mine being about 450 feet deep at the time . The ...
... operations on this work with a con- siderable sinking of the heart . There the slips started , I believe , about 100 to 150 feet below the surface ( as far as my memory serves me ) , the mine being about 450 feet deep at the time . The ...
Strana 74
... operation of an electrical and water- works plant for the city , besides the reserve power for manufacturing plants . 2 " Zeitschrift des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure , " October 6th , 1894 ( concluding article ) . posed , certain of ...
... operation of an electrical and water- works plant for the city , besides the reserve power for manufacturing plants . 2 " Zeitschrift des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure , " October 6th , 1894 ( concluding article ) . posed , certain of ...
Strana 81
... operations indicated , and the original plans had , in consequence , to be materially modified . was intended to build this dam of " rock - fill , " on the same principle adopted at Ochoa ; but the great depths of soft earth overlying ...
... operations indicated , and the original plans had , in consequence , to be materially modified . was intended to build this dam of " rock - fill , " on the same principle adopted at Ochoa ; but the great depths of soft earth overlying ...
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aforesaid amount ARTICLE association Atlantic basin bonds Britain Brito cent Central America Chagres river channel Chontales Clayton-Bulwer treaty coast commerce Company of Nicaragua concession Congress construction contract Corinto cost Costa Rica cubic feet depth Deseado directors distance Divide cut dredging embankments engineers enterprise established estimate excavation favour feet per second Government of Nicaragua Granada granted Greytown guarantee harbour important interest issued isthmus labour Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands laws locks Managua 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 proposed railroad railway Republic of Nicaragua river San Juan rock route San Carlos San Francisco San Juan river Secretary Senate slope South Spanish steamers stream Suez Canal summit level thereof tion trade traffic Treasury treaty valley vessels volcanic water-way weirs Western Divide width
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Strana 298 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same ; which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers ; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us ; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy ; meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Strana 296 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
Strana 344 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Strana 340 - ... with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Strana 299 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Strana 359 - Panama grants to the United States the use of all the ports of the Republic open to commerce as places of refuge for any vessels employed in the Canal enterprise...
Strana 344 - And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington, on the...
Strana 409 - Company"; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States...
Strana 341 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Strana 283 - The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible.