TEHUANT

THE

TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY

ITS LOCATION

FEATURES AND ADVANTAGES

UNDER THE LA SERE GRANT OF

1869

D. APPLETON & CO

90, 92 AND 94 GRAND STREET, NEW YORK

1869

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

THE TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS,
Printing House Square, N. Y.

THERE

ARE FEW MEN LIVING

TO WHOM AMERICAN COMMERCIAL

DEVELOPMENT IS MORE LARGELY INDEBTED THAN TO

Marshall O. Roberts.

IN THE TRUE SPIRIT OF AN EMINENT MERCHANT, HE HAS DEVOTED YEARS OF PATIENT ENERGY AND OF LIBERAL AND FAR-SEEING EN

TERPRISE TO THE GRAND WORK OF OPENING AND KEEPING OPEN

THE INTER-OCEANIC GATEWAYS OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT, AND PROVIDING NEW CHANNELS FOR THE COMMERCE OF THE ORIENT.

IT IS BELIEVED THAT HE IS NOW ABOUT TO REALIZE ANOTHER

OF THOSE SAGACIOUS PROPHECIES OF THE ROUTES OF COMMERCE WHICH HAVE WON HIM HIS PRESENT PROUD POSITION AMONG THE

MERCANTILE LEADERS OF THE NEW WORLD. TO HIM THIS MODEST VOLUME, DEVOTED TO THE DEFENCE AND ELUCIDATION OF IDEAS WHICH ARE DEAR TO HIS HEART AND HOPES, AS

THE LEADING PROMOTER OF THE

TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY,

IS

INSCRIBED.