. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . hundred feet long by eighty wide,the stone taken from quarries along the line of the and commodious station-houses, for the use of thelocal superintendents, were erected at intervals of fourmiles along the entire line, and an electric telegraph wasestablished between the termini for the use of the Com-pany
. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . hundred feet long by eighty wide,the stone taken from quarries along the line of the and commodious station-houses, for the use of thelocal superintendents, were erected at intervals of fourmiles along the entire line, and an electric telegraph wasestablished between the termini for the use of the Com-pany. These, besides many other improvements, in reduc-ing grades* and straightening curves, were accomplished * TABLE OF THE GRADES FROM ASPINWALL TO PANAMA. Rate of grade per mile Length of grade Rate of grade per mile Length of grade in feet. in feet. in feet. in feet. Level. 123,539 418 1,000 13,600 1,900 8,868 1,500 1,936 2,500 1,100 3,100 1,400 13,313 2,200 2,600 2,396 4,300 1,916 6,500 1,707 2,100 3,430 3,700 3,250 200 6,300 1,400 3,355 4,900 20,107 4,595 71,983 2,052 179,199 179,199 251,182. THE CABILDO AT PANAMA. TANAMA EAILROAD. 45 daring the two years following the opening of the road in1855, involving an additional expenditure of nearly twomillions of dollars. This great expenditure was not, how-ever, incurred without satisfactory proof that the enterprisewould equal, in its pecuniary advantages, all the calcula-tions which had been made in regard to its increase of rev-enue. Up to the opening of the road in 1855, that is tosay, from the running of the first passenger train in 1852,the amount received for the transportation of passengers andfreight was $2,125,232 31. See Appendix B, p. 61, et seq. From 1857 the Company were actively engaged in estab-lishing every needful arrangement and impro
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