More than that, he says, the nicaraguan canal route is in danger because it is in the eruption zone.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
Since 1835 there have been six eruptions in Nicaragua, one of them, in 1883, being an outbreak in the crater of Omotepe in Lake Nicaragua, the route of the proposed nicaraguan canal.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
It seemed at the time that the Panama route could hardly be obtained for a canal under purely American control, and a further investigation of the nicaraguan route was ordered-that route which had been preferred by the American experts before de Lesseps intervened.
"The Panama Canal and its Makers"
Vaughan Cornish