The southern end is fed by a canal maintained by the Dead Sea Works, a company that converts the sea's raw materials.

It granted his Accessory Transit Company the exclusive right to build a canal within 12 years and gave the same company sole administration of a temporary trade route in which the overland crossing through the Rivas isthmus was done by train and stagecoach.

A new company was formed in 1894 to recuperate some of the losses of the original canal company.

According to the terms of the treaty, the U. S. was to pay the stockholders of the French company that had tried to build the canal across Panama the sum of $ 40, 000, 000.

In 1854 and 1856 Ferdinand de Lesseps obtained a concession from Sa ' id Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, to create a company to construct a canal open to ships of all nations.

The company was to operate the canal for 99 years from its opening.

Although the Grand Union company had a number of broad boats built to take advantage of the improvements, they never really caught on and the canal continued to be operated largely by pairs of narrow boats, whose journeys were facilitated by the newly widened locks in which they could breast up.

The river and canal part company at the base of the Hanwell flight of locks ( 92-97 ), before two more locks take the canal to Norwood Green.

Between 1859 and 1869, under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez, a French company, built the Suez Canal, opening a new chapter in global transportation and trade.

A study from a company in Finland has shown that bright light therapy delivered directly to photosensitive regions of the brain via the ear canal may also be an effective alternative to light box treatment.

A development company created a canal to bypass the Appomattox Falls.

Its initial organization was effected by a canal company founded in Denver, Colorado, and appears to have been based upon fraud and willful misrepresentations made by the founders to state officials.

A lateral canal 5 miles long with 6 locks was started but the company needed more to complete it.

During subsequent travels, first as a surveyor ( appointed by noted engineer John Rennie ) for the canal company until 1799 when he was dismissed, and later, he was continually taking samples and mapping the locations of the various strata, and displaying the vertical extent of the strata, and drawing cross-sections and tables of what he saw.

The Nestlé company located its major chocolate and instant coffee works on the canal, adjacent to the railway east of the station, and it was for many years the company's UK headquarters.

Unable to pay Murphy in cash, the canal company offered him land and water rights to a large amount of property as compensation.

In 1852, the canal was sold to the railway company which accelerated its decline.

As part of the transaction, the company agreed to build a canal, which would link Bayou Terrebonne to New Orleans.

It was named after Frank T. Redmond and platted by an irrigation company building a canal.

After company mergers, the canal became part of the Shropshire Union System.

In its time, the canal company was the largest private commercial enterprise in the nation.

In 1912, Lon Hill, an early land owner, formed a company to develop a canal system which would use the Rio Grande to irrigate land for farming.

With the coming of the railways, the proprietors sought to lease the canal to a railway company in 1860.

With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

In 1886 the canal was sold to a miller called Edward Press for £ 600, but the principal clerk absconded with most of the money and it was never recovered.

After Camille Zeringue's death, Seven Oaks was owned by Pablo Sala, who divided the property along the canal into lots, which he sold for $ 40 each.

When the Erie Canal opened, the farm, through which the canal passed at the Canawaugus Road, was sold to become the first village lots.

Borland & Truck farms sold vegetables to Pittsburgh in the days of the canal.

In 1842 Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna sold the rights to build a railroad or canal across the isthmus.

Mexico sold the canal franchise, without the land grants, to A. G. Sloo and Associates in New York for $ 600, 000 ($ today ).

In 1885, the canal was sold for £ 600, but the canal company's solicitor disappeared with the money.

The site was sold for housing development to Swan Homes, and agreement was reached to excavate the basin to enhance the project, under which Wharf House was rebuilt to provide a new canal centre.

After severe flooding in 1936, B & O Railroad sold the canal to the National Park Service in October 1938.

The canal was sold to the Marquess of Bute in 1885, who made some improvements at the Cardiff end, but six railway companies were serving Merthyr by 1886, all competing for traffic, and the upper sections, particularly the pound at Aberfan, was suffering from severe subsidence as a result of the coal mining.

A town had been platted and promoted as Ruby Townsite by Harley J. Hooker, who sold land for $ 1. 25 per acre when the Jordan Valley Irrigation District began constructing an irrigation dam and canal system near Danner about 1910.

Terre Haute, Indiana, housed the headquarters of the canal from 1847 through 1876, when the canal lands were sold at an auction conducted by resident trustee Thomas Dowling at the Vigo County Court House.

In 1883, after some years of negotiation, the canal was sold to a company called the Regent's Canal and City Docks Railway Company.

As railroads superseded canal barge transport, the canal was abandoned by the Commonwealth and sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad.

It was offered for sale in 1870, but officially abandoned in 1871, with the land sold to many along its route, although the canal company was not wound up until 1910.

In 1953 the canal and surrounding lands were sold to west Sussex County Council for £ 7, 500.

The state sold the canal to the Pennsylvania Railroad, which abandoned the canal in 1889 after severe flooding.

Much of the alignment was used by the London & Croydon Railway Company, which had bought the canal had been sold for £ 40, 250, for part of the railway between London Bridge and West Croydon, which is on the site of the canal basin.