. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. TEQU1XQUIAC TUNNEL. TRANSPORTATION 331 transcontinental railway connecting the two oceans. The Tehuantepec Rail-way is, of course, the principal and shortest route across the continent, but now. CANON WEST SALAZAR, NATIONAL RAILWAY. it becomes possible to leave the steamer at Tampico or Vera Cruz and to traveloverland through Guadalajara to Manzanillo with only two changes of cars. Increased exports of native products, including sugar, are reported sincethe opening of the rail connections to the coast, and large shipment
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. TEQU1XQUIAC TUNNEL. TRANSPORTATION 331 transcontinental railway connecting the two oceans. The Tehuantepec Rail-way is, of course, the principal and shortest route across the continent, but now. CANON WEST SALAZAR, NATIONAL RAILWAY. it becomes possible to leave the steamer at Tampico or Vera Cruz and to traveloverland through Guadalajara to Manzanillo with only two changes of cars. Increased exports of native products, including sugar, are reported sincethe opening of the rail connections to the coast, and large shipments of wheatare being received in Guadalajara and Zapotlan. Steamship communicationwith Pacific ports and those of China and Japan have been inaugurated, andManzanillo, as a port of entry, will receive much merchandise which formerlyhad to be forwarded overland from Tampico. Manzanillo is one of the oldest and most celebrated ports of the the important port-works at Manzanillo are terminated it will be one ofthe best equipped and most desirable harbors on the Pacific Coast. The port-works are being built by Colonel E. K. Smoot, an American engineer. This operation has been in the course of construction since 1899, and whencompleted will give the ha
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