The Texcoco-Huehuetoca Canal, Proposed as a Basis on which to Issue Treasury Money, and to Inaugurate a National System, to Multiply and to Diversify Home IndustriesH. C. Baird & Company, 1880 - 120 страница |
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... Drainage Co mission , " 205 Walnut Place , Phila . , on the 20th day of Janua 1880 , E. M. Davis moved that A. K. Owen , Civil Engineer , a Wm . C. Crooks , be authorized and directed to prepare the mar script presented , and ...
... Drainage Co mission , " 205 Walnut Place , Phila . , on the 20th day of Janua 1880 , E. M. Davis moved that A. K. Owen , Civil Engineer , a Wm . C. Crooks , be authorized and directed to prepare the mar script presented , and ...
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Albert Kimsey Owen. 2 OFFICERS OF THE MEXICAN DRAINAGE COMMISSION , 205 WALNUT PLACE , PHILADELPHIA , PA . President ......... E . M. DAVIS , Philadelphia , Pa . Secretaries ........ CARLOS DE OLAGUIBEL Y ARISTA , Mexico City DR . W. C. ...
Albert Kimsey Owen. 2 OFFICERS OF THE MEXICAN DRAINAGE COMMISSION , 205 WALNUT PLACE , PHILADELPHIA , PA . President ......... E . M. DAVIS , Philadelphia , Pa . Secretaries ........ CARLOS DE OLAGUIBEL Y ARISTA , Mexico City DR . W. C. ...
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... Drainage Commission . SIR : Your Engineer is pleased to submit that in accordance with the agreement made September 22d , 1879 , he sailed from New York , October 4th , in the steamship " The City of Alexandria , " via : Cuba and ...
... Drainage Commission . SIR : Your Engineer is pleased to submit that in accordance with the agreement made September 22d , 1879 , he sailed from New York , October 4th , in the steamship " The City of Alexandria , " via : Cuba and ...
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... drainage of the Valley of Mexico as proposed by our Commission . Herewith is submitted the bill presented by President Diaz to Congress , asking for authority to issue $ 20,000,000 of Treasury money . In lieu of a translation of this ...
... drainage of the Valley of Mexico as proposed by our Commission . Herewith is submitted the bill presented by President Diaz to Congress , asking for authority to issue $ 20,000,000 of Treasury money . In lieu of a translation of this ...
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... drainage are not men- tioned in the said bill , nor that our propositions relating to Treasury money are not literally followed . It is sufficient for the . Commission to know that it was to carry into execution our sug- gestions that ...
... drainage are not men- tioned in the said bill , nor that our propositions relating to Treasury money are not literally followed . It is sufficient for the . Commission to know that it was to carry into execution our sug- gestions that ...
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A. K. Owen basin bills capital carga cent centum Chalco circulation city of Mexico commercial commodities complete Congress Cortez cost Cruz currency debts Desague dollars drain Engineer England exchange expenses feet five foreign France gold and silver gold or silver greenbacks Guadalupe Henry Carey Huehuetoca hundred inaugurate industries interest issued Treasury money labor lake of Tezcuco Lake Texcoco Lake Xochimilco Lake Zumpango Lakes Chalco land Latin Union legal tender manufacture means of payment ment metals metres Mexican Drainage Commission Mexico City Miguel Hidalgo miles million money and bonds money of account mountains National Bank paid paper money Philadelphia plain plans PORFIRIO DIAZ present President Diaz proposed railroad receive redeem revenue salt says Secretary of Public secure Señor streets taxes Teran Texcoco-Huehuetoca canal thousand tion tons calcined soda trade United valley of Mexico Vera Cruz wealth Xaltocan Xochimilco Zumpango
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