oS ee ‘AOUAWNOD S.GTYOM AHL AO AULNAD AHL OAMdALNVOHAT—'AVATIVY dIHS OINVAOOMALNY AH, doy poog fo'9 yj o°\ewawn &, "ACN ‘S,a8uq “09 2 Ssorsag ‘suaqgngg anvivaz/7 MING ZN A UV NAISAS ~\ \% iii Q Co*x, y 2S nn s GQ Y VANIND MaN~“t See HSIMGNVS = ——__ Soe A . a Yj Vy, WHOA MIAN/ eres Z ; \ eae y) tj; { ae ; : Ly hi ANWILYOd bis Ne , te Peper INTEROCEANIC PROBLEM, AND Its Scientific Solution. Ne DEH SS BEFORE The American Association for the. Advancement of Science, Bye BiMeR lo. CORTHELL, THIRTY-FOURTH MEETING, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, JS GGAGNS MMe Apes terete YRAREUE SOV PRUELC YTIEKEVILY RW wa 7 ; 0 * ‘ i _ i pls ; th TSS. : *, : et Cok Pi ‘4 yee ae y . LE ark ‘ RS be a are | ir ee Ly uit i po eae tg a 2 ent bs i \ OR oS Vraig THE INTEROCEANIC PROBLEM AND ITS SCIENTIFIC SSOLUTION. Litre and GENTLEMEN : We come before you, representatives of the Advancement of Science, to present one of the most important commercial and scientific problems of this age. The subject, however unworthily it may be treated by us, 1s full of active interest to men representing all those sciences that have to do with the advancement of m nkind. To geographers, biologists, anthropologists, economist Ad Civil and mechanical engineers, this subject, so importantly affeeting man in his agricultural, industrial, commercial, social and political relations, is exceedingly attractive. It must be a source of pride also to you, the direct descendants and representatives of the science of the ages, to know that from you and from those patient and able men of the past, have come forth the means for overcoming an obstacle that turned Columbus back from his search for the Indies and baffled Cortez in his efforts to reach the Pacific and its long sought for islands and countries. More than three centuries and a half have passed and with them have not only come new and greater wants among mankind, but new and greater resources and power. Our wants develop, but our power develops also. Whatever necessity may arise in any age, science always furnishes the means to supply it. One of the greatest wants of ¢hzs age is a prompt, free and econ- omical exchange of its productions, and the removal of the obstructions to its industries and commerce. The railway, tele- graph, ocean cable and the steamship have supplied wants, but have pee}. 6 created greater ones. No nation of the earth can now afford to be a stranger to any other. Distance and time must be annihilated. The improvement of the means of quick and economical communi- cation is the study of the age. One barrier broken down, our efforts need all the more to be expended on the next that stands in the way. Some mountain range that stood unnoticed and even undiscovered in all the ages, when the Red Man roamed over its slopes and through its passes, becomes a most serious obstacle when the surveys of the engineers place it in the projected pathway of the locomotive. The obstacles to commerce one after another have disappeared. The building of the iron ship and the invention of the propeller have brought the two shores of the Atlantic within a week of each other. The ocean cable has reduced the week to a moment. The network of telegraph wires spread over the continents makes near neighbors of far removed districts. The steel ribbons and the iron horse bind together distant sections. The Suez Canal, cut through the marshes of jthe/, Egyptian desert, from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Gulf, has shortened the distance from England to Calcutta forty-five hundred miles, revolutionized the carrying trade of the world and made it possible for England to hold, civilize and develop all her eastern possessions. In every direction civilization, through its numerous improvements in transportation, shortens distance and reduces the cost of moving the products of the world. But, while all this wonderful advance is recorded, there lies here — (see frontispiece) in the centre of the world, midway between the far Pacific and Atlantic countries, with a broad ocean on either hand, a continent extending nearly the whole distance from the North to the South Pole, without a passage-way anywhere for ocean or coastwise commerce. Brave men and able navigators, some of whom have laid down their lives in the frozen seas, have for many years, backed by the civilized governments of the world, sought in vain for the Northwest Passage around this obstacle to commerce. The only practicable opening between the east and the west lies between Cape Horn and the southern pole. Stretched along the western coast of this great continent from the extreme North to the far South is an immense wall of rock, piled up by nature so high that it forms an effectual barrier to the necessary economies of the age. If in the northern part of this narrow neck of land, that threadlike unites the great mass of the northern and southern halves of the continent, Nature in her ancient convulsions had rent the land asunder, mingled the seas and opened a capacious passage- 7 way as at the Straits of Magellan or Gibraltar, we would not be here to-day to state and discuss this important interoceanic problem. She did not do this work for us, but provided a place the most convenient for a passage-way, and there so arranged the harbors, rivers, valleys, depressions between the mountains, the slopes of the country and the constructive materials, that the advanced science of this century might build a way over where she, with all her creative forces, could not break a way through. In order to fully appreciate the importance of promptly, effec- tively and economically solving the Interoceanic problem, it is neces- sary to study carefully the relations of the countries of the world to each other; to obtain detailed information of the character and volume of their productions, the routes by which they now move and the demand that exists in one country for the agricultural, manufactured or mineral products of other countries. It is neces- sary to understand the peculiarity of the laws of trade in different countries, We need information also about the character of the races and the nations, their history, their methods of business, their development or decadence—in fact the whole commercial, industrial and political subject in all its various forms must be familiar to us. With such information possessed there will certainly come to us the belief—nay more, the conviction—that the importance of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for commerce cannot be understated, and that, if there is aught in Science to produce the grand result desired, it should be called on for its best assistance and its latest discoveries, in order that the correct principles and the most power- ful appliances may be combined in a successful effort to overcome the barrier. Taking up a few only of the commercial reasons for this impor- tant work, we call your attention, in the first place, to the fact that although the northern part of the continent has been crossed by five lines of railroad they cannot profitably transport many important bulky products. The cereals and the valuable woods of the Pacific coast cannot reach European markets by these trans-continental routes; even the Panama Railroad, hardly fifty miles in length, can not afford to do this work, so great is the expense of transshipment ; in fact, the trans-continental railroads, over three thousand miles in length, can carry goods with less cost than can the Panama Railroad Route. The cereals, nearly 1,200,000 tons per annum, still pursue their voyage of sixteen thousand miles, occupying from four to five months, to reach the market of the world at Liverpool. 8 The importance to our Pacific coast of shortening the distance for this commerce alone will be seen by the following facts. It costs only eight cents per day for labor to raise Indian wheat. England has expended, and is still expending millions to irrigate this vast and populous country. She is extending the railroad system to its most remote districts in order to transport the wheat to the seaboard, and she then brings it to her ports by the shortened route of the Suez Canal. Still our Pacific States, with their admirable climate and fertile soil, can compete successfully in the world’s markets if we can shorten the route one-half, the time two months and rela- tively reduce the cost of transportation. The valuable and in- exhaustible woods of the Pacific will find a ready market on both the Atlantic coasts if an all-water route can be obtained eight thousand miles shorter than by Cape Horn. The Isthmian barrier not only prevents the development of our own Pacific coast, but obstructs and hampers the important com- merce of the west coast of South America. The extensive and valuable products of Colombia, Chili and Peru, must pass south- ward around Cape Horn on a circuitous route to New York or Liverpool. Again, in the interchange of our manufactured goods for the raw materials of the Pacific coasts, Australasia and Polyne- sia, we are debarred from these important markets by the same in- surmountable obstacle. By the impetus given to the development of the far Pacific countries by the opening of the Suez Canal, their commerce has increased one hundred and fifty per cent. in the last five years, and now amounts to nearly two billion dollars per annum. Australia alone has a railway system six thousand miles in length and a foreign commerce of about four hundred million dollars. She imports from us a small quantity of nearly all of our manu- factured articles, which find their way to that country by many indirect and expensive routes, and generally in foreign ships. It is interesting to note the routes by which many products move. Of the tea shipped from Japan to New York about one-half, sixteen million pounds, goes across the Pacific to San Francisco; is there put aboard the cars and hauled across the continent ; the other half goes down the Asiatic coast, through the Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic Ocean. On account of our inability to reach Pacific ports, and the absence of our ships there many of the goods shipped from Peruvian and other South American ports to New York are sent to Liverpool on English ships, and are thence re-shipped across the Atlantic. Of all the vast commerce of the Pacific our country enjoys only four per cent. 9 Forty-five millions of our people live east of the Rocky Moun- tains. Here is found most of the manufactures. Whese WAL products amount annually to the enormous total of over five billion dollars ( $5,000,000,000 } in value. Not being able to reach economically or promptly the countries that have need of these manufactured articles, we export but fwo per cent. of them, and must yield to those countries of Europe who manufacture them at less cost and are much nearer to the markets. Special attention is here called to the unfortunate position of the Mississippi Valley and its seaports on the Gulf; with only eight hundred miles between them and the Pacific, they cannot reach it except by a voyage around Cape Horn, which absolutely prevents the interchange of business. Our whole eastern and southern coast can send its products Zastward, but to the Westward is an impassa- ble barrier, and Westward are six hundred million people just now openi 4 eir rich treasures to civilization and commerce. The dwell- ers on Wést coast of South America, Mexico and our own Pacific Bet-Although seemingly our nearest neighbors, are practically re- moved farther from us than the East Indies are by way of the Suez Canal. The over-sea commerce of the globe is now upwards of four- teen billion dollars, and is increasing at the rate of seventy-five per cent. every decade; so that, if ten years ago it was important to solve the Isthmian problem, it is more important to-day, and will be still more so ten years hence. Had we time and space we could bring forward a mass of evidence in detail that would prove the absolute necessity of a passage-way through or over the narrow neck of land separating the two great oceans. For nearly four centuries this important subject has been before the world with continually increasing interest A volume septs be written giving the history of the attempts of governments, eerntt ud fndividuals to find a passage-way for commerce across thé American Isthmus. England, France, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands and the United States, as Governments, have from time to time interested themselves in explorations of the country. Beginning at the Southern extremity, surveys have been made by the following persons: Galva of Portugal in 1550; Galestro of Spain in 1780; Humboldt, Garella Trautwine, Kennish, Mitchler, Craven, Strain, Collins, Selfridge, Wyse, Reclus, Childs, Hatfield, Lull, McFarland, Menocal, Moro, Barnard, Williams, Shufeldt, Garay and Van Brocklin. The records of their surveys are on file \ VA 10 - with the governments, companies or ‘individuals by whom they were employed. Statesmen, economists, commercial men and en- gineers have always taken adeep interest in the subject : Of ourown statesmen Jackson, Webster, Buchanan, Fillmore, Cass, Grant and Arthur were especially active in urging interoceanic communi- cation. The statesmen of Mexico, from Cortez to General Diaz, have been urgent for it, and the same may be said of the statesmen of the smaller states of the Isthmus. In plain and forcible language, General Grant said in 1881, in-the Worth American Review : “The States of North and South America, lying along the Pacific, furnish in large abundance those commodities which are constantly needed in the markets of almost every country of Europe. Of guano and nitre the trade is immense. From the ports of Chili, nearly four hundred thousand tons of freight are shipped eastward annually. More than one million tons of grain are shipped each year from the Pacific States and Territories. There is no doubt that more than 4,000,000 tons of merchandise find their way from the east and require water communication, in order that they may be shipped econo- mically and profitably, and this is merchandise to which railway transportation across the continent is wholly inapplicable.” In a message to Congress last year, President Arthur thus earnestly presented the salient points of this important subject : “While the enterprise of our citizens has responded to the duty “of creating means of speedy transit by rail between the two oceans, “these great achievements are inadequate to supply a most important ‘requisite of national union and prosperity. For all maritime pur- “poses, the States upon the Pacific are more distant from those upon “the Atlantic than if separated by either ocean alone. Europe and ‘* Africa are nearer New York, and Asia is nearer to California than “are these two great States to each other by sea. Weeks of steam ‘“‘ voyage, or months under sail, are consumed in the passage round the ‘“‘ Horn, with the disadvantage of traversing tempestuous waters or risk- ‘“‘ing the navigation of the Straits of Magellan. - Se ee 20,379 miles. 8,777 miles. Cape of Good Hoppers. tae, y) > sa oe 16,945 5,343‘ Sirey Canali le. cee eee . oan 13,596 <“s 1;994> 3** Panama ‘R.Br se aA 12,953 +s 13015 gs Isthmus of Tehuantepec ....... ...gees-.-- 11,602 ‘ as ee NEW YORK TO YOKOHAMA. Vie Cape Horm Ac t.e a cauuteck es... . eee eee 19,803. —*4 9,796. <% Cape of Good wae Saieente leva lbis > o Lemmas Oe 18,085 ** 8,079 <* Suez Canal...... ma ae his «+ se ee 15,027: ** 5,521.5" Panamack. Ri veer Sek ee. - > See ae 11206 3= 1,250: 4 Isthmus of Tehuantepec’... .... .. gee eo 10,006 ** + oe NEW YORK TO AUCKLAND, N. Z. Via Suez Canal..... ieee. eas 16:S%15) 23 ] 44 Cape of ood! Hope. ER ea ere)! Bee 16 VIDS 7 200. a Cane TOT 4 «gis cen einem... . Gnnne eo’ 13,890 ‘ 4,466 ‘‘ Panama R. Ro piessea teases. sae eee 10,305 ** ta) Rae Isthmus of Tehuantepec .2.... . ss eemene-e 9,424 ‘ Sis NEW YORK TO MELBOURNE. Via Cape Horn’, diva fs Pan be eke . . sees 15,2bfere* 4,150 ** Suez Canal... fis 2.4 Caek cay eos . see nN Pe ly ip ek 4.106425 Cape of Good Hopé. >.< .s.5.... ss SEE ea ee 20,606 ‘* 5,353 ** Panama Ri URS Us.226 & ee a «see ek ie 16,47i ae 1,218." Capeof Good Hope... ajcais ss 2’ seneees oA) 15,722 < 469 <* Isthmus of Tehuantepec...............08- 15,253“ > 5 LIVERPOOL TO YOKOHAMA. Via Oape- Orn oss) sisal cies +s 5 MEPs eee 19,400 <“ 5,945 <* Cape of Good Hops...,0.5a.s see caer 17, 653302 4,198 35" Panais' RoRivcv sass ee cme: » ae ore ee 14,540 ** 1,085-"% Isthmus of Tehuantepec................2.- 138,455 << “Sipe LIVERPOOL TO AUCKLAND, N. Z. Via Cape'ol Good Hopeiyeetasss+» sce ae ae 16,221 * 3,412. ** Saez Canal c45 ais: eu aatlebits » sees pie ae 14,645 ‘“ 1,886 ‘ Cape Horn is 2454 i aha TURES Re 13,897.“ 1,088 ‘ Panama Ra Ri \ sie eter cep «, Cees tee 13, 512204 5038“ Isthmus of Tehuantepec..............-.:. 12,809 ‘<< Sey Ste 30 TABLE OF COMPARATIVE DISTANCES IN STATUTE MILES. Excess over ee Total Tehuantepec Distance. Route. LIVERPOOL TO SAN FRANCISCO. (ST GSE of 0 Sn ee 2 Pe 15,803 miles, 7,527 miles. RIIRMTELSL DEVORE Boh rote) fa. Sno on Zin isinye «ea gion be © Mole ii We OOD ars PmUMOr PenuUaATLeEpeC.,..,.....-uece. <> S,2t0"- 33 Va eee NEW ORLEANS TO HONG KONG. PI EELOLD ere ov ee ee ts e+ + cease O's 20,804 ‘‘ 10,531“ Mera OOUM TOD Ge arects ¢ Je. sis + = 0 abeee 2% 17,485 ‘* Bal si Of OS Ne eee Se - ne 15,108‘ A SB5e, ** MTEL: Ete 7. Meas 5). cp, *~ +> « . ajateitin’e ss Seed Dh 2,085 << PeLmumOL Tehuantepec. ./..-......sme wees 10,273 ** EAGAN NEW ORLEANS TO YOKOHAMA. oa ONE Re ae Sera 20,227 < 1559045" BePPCTUATOOU ELOPOe. «<5 «os ncc ws «oes clgeiewies 18,625.. ‘s 9,988 ‘‘ MIE CEY Fee a are, . . eas 0 17,039 > BAe ns Brera MI) pak e soi. oiteades. .. sila se 4056115: 4 BOTA Ipaimus.Of Tehuantepec... ol-..-.s20- -- S:687 (f Sy Soe NEW ORLEANS TO AUCKLAND, N. Z. SUS TE OE ER ee es Pere 18. a8h) Gt 10,286 ‘ Cape of Good ies ate Se: oc ae Dreae 9,164. <“‘ Cape Horn. ... NO ee See 14,314 <“ G.219Po% Panama R. R.. Ln a. ee 9,659 ‘* 1 564-0" Isthmus of Tehuantepec Se SE 2 ORE 8,095 << Nah atel va bs NEW ORLEANS TO MELBOURNE. UPPER TOTO Lo. ce as ee cd claire's «o> eas « 16,683. 4 ** 6,947 <“* Cape Horn. . Ae ee ee 15,640. << O04 1 < Cape of Good Hope.. RS INEPIOT sa. 3 < skaetY © « 15.5600, 3° §,824 ‘' PUNETFR TLS Laci aa ati oe Sradias # «+= etait s pu et i es 1,445 ‘‘ BetUS OL lehuamtepec.. . ocd. ys ~.s wens 9.100 Titers NEW ORLEANS TO HONOLULU. NEERD ONY Petey the) ws sda bas vo cistleele’ 16,251 << UB AWE hy PII EU REL Ara otal. le restless « beatae’ %,294 < D960 aa Tsthmus of ‘Tehuantepec.............00--. 5,334 “ Pete a NEW ORLEANS TO SAN FRANCISCO. RMR CRE MELOTILS atlas elouks weld sol q's: 00 eyes +s 16:132. 7 <* 12 ol a3 ETRE MS log ot cain Selah gees «ees 5,418. ** LBs a: wetemus of Lehuantepec........ 55.2006 3,06l <* Fabs a> NEW YORK TO VALPARAISO. EN SG Sls hd Died ay aia ee ae Pap Sena ect 10,051. «** Operas Panama R. R.. (ee Re hear Ey S417 PAR Isthmus of Tehuantepec. ee Eta iste .5'« Gama | 6,369 voce gums 349,454 489,135 4. U.S. Pacific Coast with foreign Coun- tries east of Cape Horn............. 1,423,737 2,135,605 5. European Countries with Countries west. of Cape Horn, other than U. S8...... 1,828,621 2,285,776 6. British Columbia (Pacific Coast) with MMR ODE ar tay ties fed a UM. « Saree 125,000 235,000 7. Slow bulky freights now going over feranscontinental lines. ............ 400,000 600,000 8. Fifty per cent. of tonnage now going from Asiatic Countries to Europe via RIDE ODT OOM TODO ein ac a ane + ace Fas 400,000 400,000 9. New trade to be developed by Ship Railway between Gulf Ports of U.S. and Mexico and Pacific Qcean....... eas 1,000,000 Total, 4,842,111 7,004,997 The total of 7,564,597 tons very closely agrees with the estimate of the Panama Canal Congress, held in 1879, made on an entirely different basis, and estimated for a less advantageous route. The net income that can reasonably be anticipated on even four million tons is $10,800,000, or 143 per cent. on $75,000,000 capital, invested in stock and bonds. With the rapid and steady develop- ment of commerce, and with:the immense advantage of this route and method, we may assuredly expect a rapid increase in the ton- nage transported; therefore, not only commerce but capital will find it profitable to encourage and assist this great enterprise. The important results that will certainly follow the construction of 38 this great work can hardly be conceived of ; beneficial to commerce, and through it to the world’s varied and growing industries. When the Ship Railway is completed and ships pass from ocean to ocean, the last barrier to commerce will have been removed. The world then will be literally circumnavigable. ‘The race will then possess those commercial, industrial, political, social and religious advantages that have become more and more imperative as civiliza- tion and religion have sought out the nations and exerted upon them their benign influences. It has been well said: ‘‘ The chief element in the prosperity of every State and Nation is the economy of transportation of persons and property. It is the most marked fact in the difference between civilization and barbarism.” In assisting such an enterprise as the Tehuantepec Ship Railway, we are working in the true line of progress and for the advancement of the race in all its highest possi- bilities and its loftiest purposes. This project we have discussed is the conception and the work of no impractical enthusiast and visionary. The important victories gained on the Mississippi River, in the civil war, by the formidable iron clad fleet built at St. Louis ; the massive piers founded, for all time to come, on the bed rock of the mighty river, one hundred feet down through the shifting quicksands ; the graceful arches that span the turbid flood; the deep and commodious channel for commerce at the mouth of the Great River, carved through the obstructing sand bars—all are sureties that the projector and promoter of this grander plan, has himself solved the problems, met the difficulties, appreciated and overcome the obstacles, and that he will, with the aid of Science and the broad-minded statesmen of these two sister republics, and the enlightened capital of the world, complete the work that will be left as a grand heritage to posterity and an en- during monument to the constructive genius of James B. Eads. His high purpose and firm resolve can best be told in his own words spoken, not long since before a Boston audience : “We propose to bring the Golden Gate eleven thousand miles nearer by sea to Plymouth Rock than it is to-day. We propose to open a direct line from the Atlantic Seaboard to six hundred millions of people on the islands and shores of the Pacific who need, not only the products of Boston, her mills, her factories and her workshops, but also the elevating and Christianizing influences which will flow from a more intimate intercourse with her men and women, and a 39 more extensive knowledge of the institutions of art, science, litera- ture and benevolence, which illuminate and adorn the nations of the Atlantic. ‘This is our task. And we come to this famous centre of intelligence, energy, wealth and enterprise, to explain our purpose and to ask your encouragement and co-operation. “When this work is completed, as I am sure it will be, and that long before a canal is cut across the American Isthmus, its benefits will be felt by our fellow men all over the world; not only in lessen- ing the cost of transportation on the necessaries and luxuries of life, and in shortening the long weary, trackless distances which now separate nations from each other, and by opening new markets for the multitude of commodities which are interchanged by the various peoples of the earth, but also by bringing distant communities into more intimate social and commercial relation with each other, whereby the better sympathies and sentiments of each will be pro- moted, their prejucices removed, the amenities of life increased, and the benefits of civilization, science and religion more surely tend to the increase of ‘peace on earth, good will to men.’ “This work, when finished, will be the realization of the ardent wish of statesmen and philanthropists everywhere; the dream of kings and conquerors during the last three hundred and fifty years, and a fitting supplement to the grand achievements which have marked the progress of the nineteenth century.” 40 DESCRIPTION OF PLATEs. Referring to Plate I, of detailed illustrations. Fig. 1 shows the process of running down the adjusting nut of the supports to a bearing on the plates of the cross girders. The details of the support are shown in Fig. 4, with the hydraulic ram forcing it up to its position under the vessel. A, is the rod with the thread cut in it; Z&, the adjusting nut; C, the girder; D-the ram: Fig. 2, Cross-section of the pontoon, towers and carriage. A, 1s aside support; &, G, /, the adjustable hinged girth ; D, the ram ; LL, the towers for the pressure pumps which are on the top of the towers ; /, is the pipe through which the water is withdrawn from the pontoon by the centrifugal pump ;__/, is the reservoir from which the water is taken to force a pressure through the pipes to the rams ; &, is one of the cylinders for the hydraulic governors. Fig. 3, shows a part of the deck of the pontoon with the rails and the lines of rams projecting above the deck. Plate II, shows plan and detail of railway carriage. Plate III, is a perspective view of the pontoon and railway cradle. Plate IV, exhibits perspective view, plan and sectional elevation of the floating turn-table. Plate V, is a view of a steamer in transit. Plate VI, map of Isthmus of Tehuantepec and location of Ship Railway. 32165—BOWNE & Co., Printers, 124 Pearl Street, New York. Tet porreds f pet teat, : re Gh » Tae bath teat | ‘ of Key hat yr a ar 4 ‘4; hs y pee Sed < j BSA RR, hast m i : saab J Fak | ration Pe ith tl € 7 ee Plate I. | ‘i | > < ii il i Hi oe y AT == it ANI tH IM A SSS ay mie lam) ig = Tale Oy nee a a Sa eT ip rp Cer Jina ne - | tT = : THE INTEROCEANIC SHIP RAILWAY.—SECTIONAL ELEVATION AND DETAILS OF PONTOON AND RAILWAY CRADBLI (Reproduced from “ Scientific American.) 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