Identifier: oldmexicoherlost1883bish (find matches)
Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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n Southern (General Grant, President) 1,000 Oriental (De Gress and Jay Gould) 1,200 Topolobambo (Senator Windom, President) 1,200 International (Frisbie and Huntington) 1,400 Pacific Coast (Frisbie) 3,000 Total 12,300 To these may be added the Sinaloa and Darango, fromthe city of Culiacan to the port of Altata, in Sinaloa; theTehuantepec railway, and Captain Eadss ship railwayacross the same isthmus, to take the place of a ship canal.The privilege to build an American railway across Te-huantepec, it may be remembered, was secured (at thesame time with the lower belt of Arizona) by the Gads-den treaty of 1853, supplementary to that of GuadalupeHidalgo. The road was supposed to be needed for theconsolidation of relations with our then newly acquiredterritory of California. The Pacific railroad filled itsplace, however, and the project, taken up and droppedfrom time to time, has since had but a lingering existence. Captain Eads proposes to transport bodily ships of THE FERRO-CARRILES. 75
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76 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. 4000 tons, 190 miles, by land. He will Lave twelvelines of rails, and four locomotives at once; and, to avoidjarring in transit, changes of direction will be made bya series of turn-tables instead of curves. The scheme isa startling one, and meets with no little opposition. Itis still only on paper; but its proposer, who has abun-dantly vindicated his sagacity in constructing the jettiesof the Mississippi and the great St. Louis bridge, remainsfirm in his conviction that he will be able to sail shipsacross the isthmus on dry land. III. The several enterprises are succinctly divided into twoclasses—those on the ground, and those on paper. It isnot necessarily a disparagement to the last that they arestill in such a condition, for many of them are of veryrecent origin. The original Mexican Southern road is to rim southfrom Mexico, by Puebla and Oaxaca (capital of the pop-ulous state of the same name) and the frontier of Gua-temala, with branches t

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