A Proposed Atlantic-Pacific Canal Route
along the shores of the beautiful bay. There is still another route proposed for an Atlantic-Pacific canal, and it is said to be preferable to either of the others. It would connect the two oceans from the Bay of Mandingo in the Gulf of San Blas on the Atlantic side with Pearl Island Harbor in the Gulf of Panama on the Pacific side. It would be but 29½ miles long, as against 49 miles for the Panama route and 183 for the Nicaragua. It would be a sea-level canal without locks. Under all conditions of tide and weather it is said that 288 ships could be sent through in a day, whereas the number able to go through the other canals would depend on the rainfall. Like many another trader in the world's mart Uncle Sam may find after he has paid his money that he might have done much better; and this will hurt his Yankee shrewdness and conceit.