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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32673 and id is 1 raw text is: 55TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT 3d Session. No.1417. CHRONOLOGICAL STATEMENT AS TO THE MARITIME CANAL COMPANY OF NICARAGUA. DECEMBER 6, 1898.-Ordered to be printed. JAwuARY 5, 1899.-Ordered reprinted. Mr. MORGAN, from the Select Committee on the Construction of the Nicaragua Canal, submitted the following REPORT. The Select Committee on the Construction of the Nicaragua Canal reports the following as a substantially correct statement of the princi- pal events connected with the progress of legislation in respect of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, arranged according to the dates of the several transactions: HISTORY OF. AFFAIRS LEADING UP TO PRESENT POSITION. THE CHILDS PROJECT, 1852. The first authentic survey and actual location of a canal route across Nicaragua were made by Col. 0. M. Childs in 1850, 1851, and 1852 at the instance of the then existing transit company, which had estab- lished trans-Isthmian communication with California by steamer from Greytown via the San Juan River to Virgin Bay on the west shore of Lake Nicaragua, and thence by stage to San Juan del Sur, a small natural harbor on the Pacific coast about 8 miles southeast of Brito. The river transportation proved troublesome and uncertain at low stages, and the transit company sought means to better these condi- tions and to continue the water route across the narrow neck of land that separates the lake and the Pacific, with the object of securing a continuous depth of 17 feet. Childs found the ordinary high level of Lake Nicaragua to be 108 feet above mean sea level. This difference of elevation was to be over- come by 14 locks on each side. The locks were to be 250 by 60 by 17 feet; the bottom width of the canal, 50 feet, increased to 90 feet at turn-outs, and of excavated channels in river and lake, 150 feet. The total length of the proposed navigation was 194.4 miles. The total estimated cost of the project, including 15 per cent for contingencies, was $31,538,319, based on the supposition that on the average the expense for construction would be about double the cost of similar work in the State of New York. S. Rep. 1-1

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