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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 industries
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Two scrapbooks chiefly of newspaper clippings [one is on the sinking of the Vera Cruz in 1880]; 1 issue of El Gazetero, 1903 May 1
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This collection consists of papers related to Albert Kimsey Owen, the rise and fall of the Topolobampo utopian colony in Sinaloa, Mexico (1886-ca. 1903), railroad development, and Owen's survival of the wreck of the Vera Cruz in 1880. The collection also includes a diary, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and notebooks of Owen. There are also some later notes and correspondence of Professor George Renner related to the disposition and custody of Owen's papers in the 1940s-1950s.
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New statistical and railroad map of Mexico and the Northern Frontier : showing the products of the different zones, the actual and proposed railroad lines, the telegraph lines and cables, the altitudes and populations / by A.K. Owens and Alfred von Motz, Civil Engineers
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Alt. title 2 from cover. "Compiled from notes, taken during ten years of travel and study in the Mexican Republic and on the Northern Frontier. " One map in two sheets folded into a single cover. An extensive listing of telegraph points in Spanish. Telegraph and census information tables. Prime meridian: Mexico City. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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