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Excerpt from The Relation of the Panama Canal to the Traffic and Rates of American Railroads Shipments between the two seaboards of the United States may move by three water routes that compete with the rail lines connect ing the two coasts: (1) the all-water route around South America via Cape Horn for sailing vessels and through the Straits of Magellan for steamers; (2) the route by way of Panama with the transfer of traffic by rail across the Isthmus; and (3) the route via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, across which, from Puerto Mexico, on the Gulf, to Salina Cruz, on the Pacific, freight is handled by a railroad owned by the Mexican Government. Map 1 shows the intercoastal steamship lines and water routes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.