The Board of Trade of San Francisco Report of Special Committee on Inter-Oceanic Canal

San Francisco, California: Dempster Bros., Printers, 1880. Good to very good. Light toning, a couple stains, upper wrapper sometime excised but still present, vertical crease.. A primary account of discussions surrounding the push to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a feat not accomplished until the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914. Seen as "The Key of the Pacific", the canal opened up a world of opportunities of trade, which was of particular concern to merchants in San Francisco. The current source shows some of the important issues to key players in the city's Board of Trade, such as the potential location of the canal (Panama or Nicaragua), environment and drainage issues, and facility of construction. Single vol. (8.5" by 5.75"), pp. 33, [1], in original printed blue wrps, deaccession ink stamp on upper wrapper of U.S. Geological Survey Library.