A RIVAL TO PANAMA
SHORTER SERVICE TO FAR EAST ACROSS TEHUANTEPEC ISTHMUS MOVE BY MEXICAN GOVERN. MENT^ By Telegrtph.— £re«s Association.— Copyright (Received February 6, 10 a.m.) ~~ LONDON, 4th February. Negotiations are proceeding between Pearson and Son, Limited, and the Mexican Government, for the pale of the former's interest* in the Tehuan* tepee railways, which, it' is claimed, offer a shorter service to the Far East than by the Panama. Canal. [Pearson and Son> Limited, are con* tractors for public works, and are partners and managers of the Tehuantepec National Railway, of two harbours, and a dry dock hi Mexico for fifty years from 189?, in conjunction with the Mexican Government. The railway is 205 miles long, connecting the opposite sides of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It was proposed to build a railway for the transport of laden ships. By this route the distance between San Francisco and New York would, be rather more than 1000 miles shorter than by the. Isthmus of Pamma, and more than 700 miles shorter than, the Nicaraguan Canal route.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 7
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175A RIVAL TO PANAMA Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 7
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