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which to pay moderate profits upon their largely associated 

 capital. Then, again, we have the promise of ship canals and 

 ship railways across the Isthmus and over Nicaragua. De 

 Lesseps, the renowned French engineer, and head of the 

 syndicate now vigorously pushing operations on the Panama 

 ship canal, affirms that this great highway of transportation 

 between the Pacific and the Atlantic will be completed in 

 1888, according to statements made at the initiating of the 

 work. Much adverse criticism has appeared in the public 

 press of America during the past year, as to the practicability 

 of this Herculean enterprise. Nothing daunted, De Lesseps 

 continues the work as though the cry of jealous brothers of 

 his profession, or more likely the paid emissaries of opposing 

 parties, desirous of securing the profits of a carrying trade that 

 is beyond computation, were but the combined vociferations 

 of a pack of hungry mosquitoes. To the producers of the 

 Pacific Coast, subject as they now are to the pooling of rail- 

 road interests and their monopoly in the carrying trade, noth- 

 ing more can be desired nor prayed for, with such interests in 

 the future, as the early completion of this splendid enterprise, 

 conceived and inaugurated by De Lesseps. So far as capi- 

 tal is required in carrying forward this magnificent enterprise, 

 there seems to be no end to the supply, when those are 

 appealed to who know De Lesseps best, and who have for 

 years had tangible evidences of his success in the various en- 

 terprises coming under his personal supervision. 



Cheap and rapid transportation to all parts of the world 

 from the Pacific Coast is, just now, the great desideratum to 

 the complete introduction of our favorite soft wood abroad. 



