THE MEXICO-PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1924, 24 April 1880, Page 3

THE MEXICO-PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Accoi'ding to the " Moniteur de la Flotte," the preparations for the construction of the projected railway from the shores of the Gulf of M?xico to the Pacific are being pushed forward with great energy. Engineers are, it is stated, already surveying the country to be traversed, and making soundings along the coast, to determine the site of the docks from which the railway is to start; 2000 tons of steel rails have been ordered for the line, while large quantities of other materials have been purchased in Galveston, Pensacola and New York, On the Atlantic side the railway is to start from the Goatzacoalcos River, and a powerful Bteam dredging machine has been ordered, to romove the bar across the entrance it being estimated that in two months tho depth of water can be increased sufficiently to allow of the passage of ships drawing twentytwo feet. A concession has been obtained from the Mexican Government allowing a period of three years for the construction of the line; but a section of 63 kilometres (forty miles) is to be completed each year. The concession is for ninety-nine years, and allots to the company certain lands on either side of the line. At the expiration of the period the railway is to revert to the Government, the latter paying for it at the rate of 40,000 f. per kilometre, or about £2OOO per mile.