PROCEEDINGS OF THE Southern Commercial Convention, AT ITS ANNUAL SESSION CINCINNATI, PH10, PCTO CTOBER, 1870. PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS OF CINCINNATI. CINCINNATI: 1871. Miladau PILATKAOS N.ORLEANS Colorado ST. MARKS HOUSTON Lavaya River OMATAGORDA Jolins LOMATAGORDA OLAVACA Withluicbocliee SAN ANTONIO L. River VICTORIA 1:16: _FZ... Rio San Antonio P. OF MEXICO River MAP showing the Route of the proposed Gulf Coast and Florida Peninsula Canal and its outlets to the Atlantic Ocean; also, the Navigable Rivers--27,000 miles--connected by the work and tributary to it. Compiled to accompany the Report upon the subject by the Southern Commercial Convention held in Cincinnati, October, 1870. Vide Folios 105 to 1.4. V io Graililer MEMORANDA. This improvement will save 800 miles in distance and the sea risks of 1,500 miles through the most hazardous waters of the Atlantic Coast, and give to the boating interest of the West the carrying trade through to the Atlantic without change of bottoms and without breaking bulk. |