. The railroad and engineering journal . little over a year. Medellin, where it will connect with an existing railroadto the city of Puerto Berrio, on the Magdalena River, andcontinue through Bucaramanga, San Jose de Cucuta, andMerida to Valencia. We probably shall not hear very much more of this proj-ect until the reports of the parties that are making thepreliminary surveys are received. Not a few men who aremore or less familiar with most of the regions to be trav-ersed are exceedingly sanguine that favorable reports asto the practicability of the railroad will be made. It iscertain that am
. The railroad and engineering journal . little over a year. Medellin, where it will connect with an existing railroadto the city of Puerto Berrio, on the Magdalena River, andcontinue through Bucaramanga, San Jose de Cucuta, andMerida to Valencia. We probably shall not hear very much more of this proj-ect until the reports of the parties that are making thepreliminary surveys are received. Not a few men who aremore or less familiar with most of the regions to be trav-ersed are exceedingly sanguine that favorable reports asto the practicability of the railroad will be made. It iscertain that among the Cordilleras of Colombia and Ecua-dor enormous difficulties must be overcome, and the rail-road will be a most extensive enterprise, whose cost willperhaps not be justified by the commercial results formany years to come. ^There can be no doubt, however, ofthe ultimate carrying out of this project, and it is a wiseand far-seeing policy to take hold of the great project nowwith a view to ascertain the financial burden it will in-. tua S * PENETRATION OF A SHOT FROM THE ARMSTRONG iio-TON GUN. The first report of the Commission has been submittedto the Secretary of Slate. It outlines the proposed routeof the great railroad. A line of railroad, it says, is pro-jected, and has been surveyed from the City of Mexico toAyutla, on the frontier of Guatemala. From Ayutla theproposed line runs parallel with and not far from the Pa-cific coast through Mazatenango to Santa Lucia, thence byCuajiniquilapa to Santa Anna in Salvador. Then the lineturns rather abruptly east away from the Pacific, throughNuevo San Salvador and San Miguel toGoascoran in Hon-duras. From Goascoran the line will skirt the head of theGulf of Fonseca, through the State of Choluleca lo thecity of the same name ; thence the line passes throughChinadega in Nicaragua to Rivas on Lake Nicaragua, andalong the west shore of the lake through Alajuela in CostaRica, and on through San Jose to Puerto Limon, on theCarribbean
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