Identifier: isthmusoftehuant00will (find matches)
Title: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec : being the results of a survey for a railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, made by the scientific commission under the direction of Major J.G. Barnard ... : with a résumé of the geology, climate, local geography, productive industry, fauna and flora, of that region : illustrated with numerous maps and engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Williams, John Jay, 1818-1904 Tehuantepec Railroad Company United States Naval Observatory, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nt of the CerroMorro, in a direction about east 2000 feet, and with an angle atthe centre of 150°. Mr. Trastour, on the other hand, proposesthe construction of a timber breakwater, or port, about one anda half miles to the east of Cerro Morro, on the opposite side ofthe mouth of the river. A third plan is to carry a breakwaterout from near the middle or inner point of Cerro Morro, in aneasterly direction, on a curved line—at first about 1500 feet—soas not only to serve as a protection to the entrance of an innerbasin to be formed by dredging out the Laguna del Morro andthe western mouth of the Tehuantepec River, but to form like-wise an outer harbor. An important preliminary step to thisplan would be to throw a dam across the Tehuantepec River,and confine it exclusively to its eastern channel. This wouldprevent the accumulation of deposit and sedimentary matternow fast filling up the indenture in the coast. An approxi-mate estimate of this method gives, in round numbers, $490,000
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GENERAL SUMMARY. 117 as the total cost.* But whatever mode of improvement the com-pany may think proper to adopt, it is enough for present purposesto know that Ventosa may now be used without artificial works,as previously stated. i Capt. Mott, of the Gold Hunter, to whose letter referencehas already been made, says of Yentosa: Steamer Gold Hunter, iPort Ventosa, April 11, 1851. f My Dear Sir :—I beg to return you many thanks for the tracing of thisport which you so kindly sent me, and which I received on my return from theBoca Barra. I must confess I was much disappointed with that place. In-stead of twenty-three feet on the bar, as marked on Moros chart, I found buteight; and on the inner bar, where eight and a half feet are marked, but oneand a half at high water, and quite dry at low. I am convinced that no usewhatever can be made of the Boca Barra as a port for any class of vessels, forin addition to the heavy breakers constantly raging on the bar, in whichmy boat, a fine large

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