Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — ACROSS THE ISTHMUS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ACROSS THE ISTHMUS.

L New Protect to Unite the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The uniting of the Atlantic and Paciflc Oceans by canal has been a Iving question for several hundred tears and many projects have been

advanced to solve it. Of late years the Darien route, the Panama route and the Nicaraguan route have been chiefly before the public. The cost of the Darien route is estimated at 190,000,000; the Panama canal has been severely knocked in the head, while the Nicaraguan scheme is still prosecuted. Speaking on this question Gustave A. Karweise, a civil engineer, who has studied the matter for upward of a generation, says that the Nicaragua Canal cannot be built and successfully operated for double the amount proposed. Mr. Karweise proposes a new route—from the Bay of Sasardi on the Atlantic side to San Miguel Bay on the Paciflc side. The distance is only twenty-eight miles and the project has an advantage in that on both oceans there are natural and magnificent harbors. Mr. Karweise estimates the cost at $66,000,000 —$48,000,000 for the canal proper and $18,000,000 for dredging the rivers and bays. In connection with this proposed route it is pertinent to remark that the Nicaragua route, including Lake Nicaragua, is 169 miles.

THE ISTHMUS AND VARIOUS CANAL ROUTES.