The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
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WHEEi.ING. w. Va. Dec. :6.--In view of
its great Importance growing out of the
feeling that inspired the Pau-Amcrican
congrcss and its gigantic proportians n
rated Columbia Railway & Navigation
company mt Richmond. West Virginia, is
likely tn prove a sensation i'm commercial
circles. The following explanation of the
plan AS gained from parties directly in
teresaed will appear i'm tomorrow's
Wherlin1 fafeifigeacer: The purpose of
the company Ia to construct railroads In
South America. steamship lines connect
ing shese railroads with points i'm the
unitssi States. and incidentally everything
necessary To property carry ON such
business. The company's capital is
Sl0O.0O,oo, :and Captain Parsons Of
Virginia is at the head of il. Briefly the
aims of the Columbia Railway 4 Naviga-
s,p,,c, a li%e 81 r',i,r"a,i sre,,, soua,. n"i", %
near the mouth of the Magslalcna river in
the United States of Columbia southwark
ly along the eastern flank of the Andes
and hcatlwatcrs of the Amazon tn points
in Peru. there tn connect with the Peru
Wan and Argentine system of rail-
lena river stcamphips will be run tn
the southern point of Florida and to New
rnaS ] to- "il i,. %, ss'I "f ;h. ca, ra
try. The vastuess of the enter
prise contemplated is thus appa-
s.nt. The continent L. probably the richest
i'm mineral aud other resources of all the
continents I'm the world Is to he opened up
for the purpose OF commerce., immiRra.
commerce will he brought into easy conn
nunication with the rest of the world and,
will acr,ie to the United States.
Captain II. e.. Parsou, whose home is
now at Natural Bridge. VA. is the origina-
II il by no means the first difficult aud
hazardous undertaking i'm the railroad line
he has been engaged i'm, though others
wsr Ssr.a with ,Sia. ."'"s For "fs Is ss"r. Ss%.
Captain Parsons has given the subjs ct of
a lorth and south line Of railroad in
Travelled and investigated examined sur
veys of the country aud collected inforrna.
the feasibility of his great project aud AT
last hseueht IL tn a poins of reaiisation.
In orss< 70 obsssinsn,S .si,sos.eh organi.
incorporators have been selected and
will shortly bc named i'm all the
Southern .n ,no States; Wne" Nh, this has
completed by the election Of officers. etc.
Subscription books wi Inc opened and the
practical work of making surveys and cs-
Inmates will he inaugur..ted at once. The
only part of the proiSorcd route which IL
unknown and unexplorcd IL is,tween the
over ~ dividing ridge Of the Corsiilleras, i'm
Ecuador. Here "a mountain chain must
bc crossed ia order to- pass from the valley
of one river tn that of another. and in adj
tiition to natural obstacles are fierce saw
age tribes who have hitherto resisted AT.
tempts tn explore their country. The
northern terminus AS now proposed will
he Port Carthagcuss, Oh the Caribbean sea.
The road will traverse Panpas del Sac
ramcnto, perhaps the richest agricultural
region i'm the world, will skirt the largest
gold and silver mines and penetrate for
e-ts of untold value; AZ i,s southern ter
Peruvian lines of railway and the railroad
for Buenos Ayrcs On the Atlantic, which
road is already in operation for 400 miles
tn lac klss spf La al
| river. Thus different outlets tai the ocean
will he secured for products at present in
found the heart of the gold
| and silver mining region which
has been peculiarly repn,si 10 bs
| where some of the old church writer's
| claim was really the Ophir Of King Solo
mon.
-DcvclopInent of Peru i'm tho past has
| been exceedingly slow aud at great cost.
| Its l.:sO miles of railroads have cost the
costly in the world. Notwithstanding this
! constructed portions of these lines have
already been Largely paid Ter 10y royai,y
OF the rapid and complete development of
| such resources as u contains can hc better
imagined than described. Almost as much
may be said for any one of the states
through which the proposed road II "a
| pass.
| Press correspondent Superintendent Par
SONS dwelt at length upon the element ot
| uncertainty which must enter INTO the
| problem on account Of the unknown re-
| gioii in crossing the Corslilleras. Whether
| man ean ,lo what never yet has oeeu do re
| il u question which the company engi.
| ncers will have to solve in the
near future. Il must he clear,
said Captain Parsons, to the cas-
| ual student OF matters involved that
tnis or some similar one il the only prac-
| ticabie channel 10y which our wares can
| be carried in competition with those al
| Europe to the heart Of South America. I,
offers the only possible means Of compct
ing i'm time with transatlantic steamers
by this means the traveller will he able tu
! make the distance from Lima. the capital
of Peru, To New York i'm nine days.
Al Lima; he will he but n
| hours 10y steamer for Valparaiso. atssSew
York hut seven days from Liverpool. ana
| So from Chilli tn England i'm IL days. IL i
hs. true that the United States with IL,
| pan-American congress- reciprocity treat
! les is seeking its chief market i'm Souti
America, il would appear that she car
best hutl that not at Rio Janeiro. not N
Buenos Ayers. not upon the coast front
| ing England nor upon the narrow aris
| plains of the upper Pacific coast. but-b,
| piercing the center of the nut at once
extract the kernel whole.
THE Prias~r- Trouble ia PhtlAsielphta.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 26--The printer
to-day considered the refusal OF the pro