Report of J. J. Williams, Chief Engineer, Upon the Location of the Tehuantepec Railway and Carriage Road Across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

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Excerpt from Report of J. J. Williams, Chief Engineer, Upon the Location of the Tehuantepec Railway and Carriage Road Across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec: With the Map and Profiles as Approved by the Government of Mexico, July 1st, 1870As your instructions directed me to obtain as much additional information as possible, bearing on the subject of the railway across the Isthmus, I take occasion to say that, notwithstanding all that has been said and written about Tehuantepec, I do not think that the Isthmus has yet been fully described.In the first place a map should be made upon which can be laid down the coast and lateral railway lines which may be built to act as feeders to the main trunk line, across Tehuantepec, and in order to do this the plan should include on the west as much of the States of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca as will take in the cities of the same names, on the east, the States of Tobasco, Chiapas, and a portion of Guate mala bordering on the Pacific, upon such a map should be projected the following connecting or branch lines: First, a road should start at or in the neighborhood of Soledad, a station on the Vera Cruz and city of Mexico railroad, about twenty miles from the former city, and run down to the lagoons connecting with the harbor of Alvarado. This piece of road, which might be a branch of the Vera Cruz and city of Mexico railway, would be about thirty miles long, and, as I am informed, almost on a dead level the whole distance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.