 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1902 - 666 Seiten
...266,228,000 cubic yards. The cost of such a waterway, including a dam at Alhajuela and a tide-lock at the Pacific end, is estimated at not less than $240,000,000....construction would probably take at least twenty years. The Commission, after full consideration, concurred with the various French Commissions, since the... | |
 | Henry L. Abbot - 1905 - 274 Seiten
...opinion on the matter. The Isthmian Canal Commission of 1899.1901 definitely rejected the idea, stating : "The cost of such a canal, including a dam at Alhajuela...since the failure of the Old Company in rejecting the sea level plan. While such a plan would be physically practicable, and might be adopted if no other... | |
 | 1906 - 1350 Seiten
...Alfred Noble, Col. PC Mains, William H. Burr, and Emory It. Johnson, reported to Congress as follows: The cost of such a canal, including a dam at Alhajuela...Commission concurs with the various French commissions who have preceded it since the failure of the old company in rejecting the sea-level canal. While such... | |
 | Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay - 1906 - 410 Seiten
...required for such a canal has been roughly computed, and is found to be about 266,228,000 cubic yards. The cost of such a canal, including a dam at Alhajuela...construction would probably take at least twenty years." The investigations of the Commission were necessarily directed chiefly to the various suggestions for... | |
 | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1906 - 678 Seiten
...required for such a canal has been roughly computed, and is found to be about 266,228,000 cubic yards. The cost of such a canal, including a dam at Alhajuela...construction would probably take at least twenty years." The investigations of the Commission were necessarily directed chiefly to the various suggestions for... | |
 | United States. Board of Consulting Engineers on Panama Canal - 1906 - 496 Seiten
...estimated at not less than $240,000,000. Its construction would probably take at least twenty year?. This Commission concurs with the various French commissions...a plan would be physically practicable, and might l>e adopted if no other solution were available, the difficulties of all kinds, and especially those... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals - 1906 - 1080 Seiten
...reason why we rejected the sealevel canal, and we state it in this way, on page 88 of that report: "That this Commission concurs with the various French commissions...of the old company in rejecting the sea-level plan, and while such a plan would be physically practicable, and might be adopted if no other solution were... | |
 | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1910 - 586 Seiten
...required for such a canal has been roughly computed, and is found to be about 266,228,000 cubic yards. The cost of such a canal, including a dam at Alhajuela...construction would probably take at least twenty years." Many other, and forcible arguments, have been advanced against the sea level type and the weight of... | |
 | Logan Marshall, C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - 1913 - 370 Seiten
...required for such a canal has been roughly computed, and is found to be about 266,228000 cubic yards. The cost of such a canal, including a dam at Alhajuela...construction would probably take at least twenty years." the point of view of a sea level canal as well as that of a waterway with locks. In the former case... | |
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French commissions which have preceded it since the failure of the old company in rejecting the sea-level plan. While such a plan would be physically practicable, and might be adopted if no other solution were available, the difficulties of all kinds,... 