Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: XII. Central America

Collection:: Economics Books

CENTRAL AMERICA H5 could be used to great advantage for light and power. Near the coast they are navigable for small steamers of light draft and canoes and are also useful in getting out lumber, afford ing a cheap method of transporting it to the coast. Due to the smallness of the countries, and the complications in the way of engineering problems, especially in the mountains, there are comparatively few railways. Costa Rica has 490 miles of railroad, by means of which the capital is kept in touch with ports on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Salvador has about 174 miles of railroad in operation with about fifty more in progress of construction. Transportation in the in terior is made convenient and comfortable by the 2000 miles of really good roadway built in accordance with the most modern methods. Guatemala contains 450 miles of railroads which afford an ocean to ocean communica tion. Honduras possesses slightly over 100 miles of road, in a bad state of repair, with obsolete

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