SHORTER THAN PANAMA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1667, 6 February 1913, Page 7

SHORTER THAN PANAMA.

> , r —4 — : —~— • tehuantepec railway, route. ' By Telograph—Preoe Association—Copyright London, February i. Negotiations are proceeding; ; botween Messrs. Pearson and Son, Limited, and the Mexican Government, for tho sale of Messrs. Pearson's interests in the Tehuantepec railways, which, it is claimed, offer a . shorter service to the Far East than by the Panama Canal. • • It. has been stated that if it is found . that tho remission of the Panama Canal , tolls on American: vessels handicaps foreign ships too 'greatly much more advant--3 age will probably be taken of tho route 1 aoross tho isthmus of Tehuantepec than 8 is the case at present. Tho railway-be-' , twecn Salina Crux, on tho Pacific, and , Puerto' Mexico, on the Atlantic, was completed by Sir Weetman Pearson (now Lord 0 Cowdrar, with whom tho Master of Eli- • bank is'to be associated for some years) in » January, 1907,' and traffic by it lias exj panded to such an extent that the line (acs cording to the Manchester "Guardian") is about,to bo doubled. In fact, apart from 8 j the question of canal dues, the Tehuanr I tepee Toute promises to compete keenly a I with Panama for east and west traffic, as tho delay caused by transhipment at each end of it is almost infinitesimal. Already no fewer than ten steamship lilies run between European ports and Puerto Mex--1 ico, while on tho Pacific, too, the conncc- ' tlens with Salina Cruz are numerous.