Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-29
HurIburt TO Blaine.
LEGATION UNITED STATES,
LENA, Peru, October 3. 1851

LEGATION UNITED STATES.
LENA, PEgU, October 5. 1881
SIR have Just consummated an agree
ment made with the Calderon government on
September 10Th Tor a grant to the United
States OF a naval and coaling station -ae
Chimbote. The concessions set forth in
the protocol are not 80 strong as would have
liked to have obtained, but they are all that
the president alone, without the approval of
Congress, could give. / look upon it in the
relative position OF the two countries as CIV
ing us, should it be accepted by you, a very
valuable foothold, which can hereafter be
rendered more exclusive in matters of iuris-
diction. There is no question under Peru
Wan law but that the act OF President Calde-
ron is effective in transferring rights az if he
were regularly elected president and looking
to the future can see great possibilities in
this grant. Chimbote bay is by lar the best
on the Pacific coast and the coal mines in
the interior, to which it is the entrance by
wsy of a railroad now under construction,
furnish ample supplies, of good quality, of
inexhaustible quantity, and at low prices.
The protocol and approval OF the same by
President ECalderon are icclosed with this
dispatch. l have not time to elaborate this
question by this mail, but will do so by the
next. | have also, at my own risk, concluded
with President Calderon an arrangement by
which the unfinished line of railway will be
turned over by the government to me as in
termediary or trustee, to transfer the same to
an American company, to complete, develop
and operate it. By 50 doing it is easy to limit
such company in the price charged the
United States to five dollars per ton and yet
leave a large margin. The possibilities for
such a company are very large, as the
country to be developed by the road is singu-
larry rich in mines OF metal and OF agricul-
ture. The grant will include complete
control of the road, on which the gov
eminent has already spent over 100000,
and the whole road can be completed now
for SlO,000,000. The principal terms will be
the payment to the government OF Peru of
81 100000 in money and the same sum in
paid-up stock, to clear all existing incum-
brances, for which sums they cede the clear
right to construct and operate the road for
twenty-five years after it is finished, without
rent or liability to account. At the end of
that period the Peruvian government has
the option to buy the road by paying the prin-
cipal of its cost to the company, or
to lease il for twenty-five years more at
twenty-five per cent. of net profits. The
papers cannot be ready before the next mail
and will contain other rights and privileges
which l cannot now enumerate. | have
determined to accept this trust so as to save
this very valuable grant from any possible
chance of being lost to our country. In
L
THE PROTOCOL.
Inclosed in No. 10 is the following pro-
tocol: On the 10th day of the month of
September, 1881, the undersigned, Stephen
a. Hurlbut, envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary of the United States of
America, and Manuel Maria Galvez, min
lister of foreign affairs oil Peru, met in the
Office of the American legation Tor the pur-
pose of establishing, in the name of their
respective governments, an agreement with
the object OF giving due facilities to the
American naval marine on the coast of the
Pacific, the propriety OF such agreement
having been recognized by the undersigned,
and they having also taken into considera-
ton the stipulations contained in article
IA of the treaty of friendship, commerce
and navigation. now existing between the
two countries, have agreed upon the fol-
lowing;
First.-The government of Peru comedies
to that of the United States of America the
right and power to establish station for
coaling in the port and harbor OF Chimbote,
and all facilities which may be necessary in
order that the ships of war and merchant
vessels OF the United States may be supplied
with that article, and may station themselves
in said port.
SecoRd.-The concession above made is
not to be considered as exclusive IN favor OF
the government Of the United States, mas
much as the government Of Peru reserves to
itself the right TO make analogous eonces-
sions to other friendly powers who may So
licit the same.
Ihrd.-The land which the government Of
the United States may acquire for coaling
station, either from the State or from private
persons, will remain subject to the general
laws which rule in Peru in reference to the
ownership of real estate.
FouTth.-The concession to which the first
article of this protocol relates is of indefinite
duration, and the government of Peru shall
have power TO withdraw the same, by first
giving to that of the United States not less
than one years notice.
In testimony of which the undersigned
have signed the above protocol in duplicate,
and have attached TO both copies their re-
spective seals. 5. A. HURLBUT,
NJ. NJ. GALoEZ.