Identifier: reportsrecommend00inte (find matches)
Title: Reports and recommendations, together with the messages of the President and the letters of the secretary of state transmitting the same to Congress ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: International American Conference (1st : 1889-1890 : Washington, D.C.)
Subjects: Communication and traffic
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hortly be finished, the interoceanic from Vera Cruzto Acapulco, and the Tehuautepec from Coatzacoalcos in the Gulf ofMexico to the Pacific Ocean. The latter line will be completely finishedbefore the end of three months. The lines that can serve for the Con-tinental International Railroad are two: the Mexican Internationaland Mexican Central. The former could be employed for trafl&c fromall points between the Atlantic coast and the Rocky Mountains, andthe latter for the traffic between the said mountains and the Pacificcoast. These two lines unite in the Torreon, and come on only oneline, the Mexican Central, to the city of Mexico. From the capital of Mexico the route along the Vera Cruz Railroadwould be taken to a point called Esperanza and from there to Tehua-can, which is the terminus of the constructed lines; and from thenceche route would be taken that is in course of construction towardOaxaca, Tehuantepec, and the Republic of Guatemala. E. A. Mexia.Washington, April 15,1890.
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THE RAILROADS OF NliJARAGUA. MEMOBANDUM CONCEBNING THE RAILROADS IN NICARAGUA. There are at present in operation in Nicaragua about one hundredmiles of railroad. The line is divided into two sections, which are called the Easternand Western. They are separated by Lake Managua, the 24 miles ofwidth of which are crossed by commodious steamers. The Western section, which was the first constructed, starts from theport of Corinto, on the Pacific, and terminates at Lake Managua, asabove stated. On this line, which is 57^ miles in length, is a greatbridge over the estuary or inlet of Paso Caballos, which is a notablepiece of engineering. The Eastern section of the railroad goes from Managua, the capitalof Nicaragua, to Grenada, a city situated on the great Lake Nicaragua.As this city is in direct and constant communication, by means of thethe lake and the San Juan Kiver, with the port of San Juan del Norte,or G-reytown, on the Atlantic, it results that there exists across theterritory of Nic

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