The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-13
The WONDERFUL REGIONS
To DO Trayersed BY the Line.:.,The
@Ss Full Details Given to the III
Intelligencer. X :5+5t:4 y
Tho Trustees for tho New Corporation
Named, md the Books to be Opened
for Subscriptions ut Once--Not M
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LHe tlue VI tue puDllCatloH III TIC lNTELs
LIoEScER OF the first authentic account
Of the Colombia Railway and Naviga.
ton Company's great scheme, consider.
able progress has been made In perfect
ing the details! OF organization. n a pre-.
,liminary fund Of s2OO, 900, to be devoted
to surveys and estimates, will be raised
as soon rs the certificates OF subscription,
now in the printers' hands, can be issued
and distributed at selected points in dif-
icrent parts Of tho country. This fund
will be under the control OF a board Of
trustees, whose names. as those, Of well
recognized leaders in financial and com
mercial circles, will be sufficient guar.
antee Of its proper use. The trus-
tees are announced tonight as follows:
V Granville T.. How es, OF New York !;
John W. Thompson, President National
Metropolitan Bank, Washington y cx-
Senator Norwood, OF Georgia, and A..W.
! Campbell;1 : OF Wheeling. lThos. Z Hellis,
Of Richmond, Va, is Secretary; Of the
Board. \; 4 ;!s,
Below is given the full text Of the let
ter OF explanation OF the project address
ell to them by Captain II. @. Parsons: i
}.4 CAPT: PARSONS LETTER.
GENrLEMEN:-An undertaking SO vast
as tie establishment tof daily comIiuni:
cation between two continents, as the
construction of "a great railroad line
through distant and gundeyeloped ( re-
gions is so dependent for success upon
the favor Of governments. that it is
found best to make,it popular by giving
an opportunity TO the public to subscribe
to the survey fund which will either
bear the risks or share the profits OF the
enterprise. It therefore becomes proper
thut the results Of the investigations go
far pursued shall be given to the public.
There is now ior the first time in our
history a pressing popular demand for
the establishment OF railroad commune
cation through the two American tconti-
nents; and the argument discloses go
many misapprehensions that it Is neces-
sary to describe with more detail than
is usually required, in such sundertak:
ings, the route We have chosen. :; 3i.+!i 81
.{.. ~! A PRACTICABLE ROUTE. II
1t is not generally understood that all
South America, except a narrow strip Of
Ecuador lies east OF Washington, and
that there is direct route and one not
impossible OF construction, to a connec-
ton with the great railroad systems of
Peru, Chill, and the Argentine Repub-
lie. From the southernmost point !of
Florida to the mouth OF the ; Alagdalena
river is less than ], 900 miles in distance,
or fifty hours in time. The Afagdalena
valley opening due South S00.miles, pro-
vides an open way to the Cordilleras,
that divide the waters Sof the Amazon
and the Magdalena.! Beyond this barrier
extends vast plain more than a mil
lion square miles in extent,,which, rest
ing Mt an elevation of3 5000; feet above
the sea against the Il Andes, gradually
slopes eastward to send the vast volume
OF water to the sea plain that occupies
one.half of the territory Of Peru and ;ex-
tends far into Bolivia: Already 5000
miles Of railroad reaching sont from the
Pacific and Atlantic from .Callao and
.Buenos Ayres and ports further south,
approach the center OF the continent. To
Cerro de Pasco, to Clzco, To Patosi and
La Paz these lin, reach toward a North
and South line wi hich is now building to
connect theu,.. From Cerro. de Pasco an
English com pany has just contracted to
build Il line 1000 miles long to Purus, a
navagable branch OF the Amazon From
Cartagena to Cuzco the line will be less
than 1000 miles in length I for over fl
teen hundred miles it follows the banks
OF rivers or crosses the Pampa del Sac
ramento. There is not one great river,
and one summit level to cross in the en-
tire distance. ;5:
~ ENTRANCE TO ToAcoNTINENT.S ~ ~ ~
The harbor5 Of. Cartagena was walled
and protected by. the, ,Spauiards at a cost
OF S5S,000, ,000,I and to-day presents the
most imposing frontage Of any port ir
the Western Hemisphere. It's great
depth Of water! and its vast area make \
: a proper entrance into a continent. The
Andes at d point 200 miles north Of tht
equator divide into three distinct ant
parallel ranges which proceed northwart
with almost the Z precision .ot straigh
lines. The western range gathers upor
its upper plains the waters Of the ;swif
Atrato, ,lwhich;,swith3 the volume ofsth.
Hudson, cltaVls It. to the northern OK
treluity, and atE the Isthmus Of DarieI
creates theonly break in a chain Of s ,0Ot
miles. The central range lis swept OF
ono side by; the Cauca, q, stream the sizt
Z OF the Tennessee, flowing through wha
has been declared 3byy Humboldt and
Bolivar to be 'onefof the most attractive
valleys Of the globe, to its junction with
the Magdalena, which Srolls with tht
volume ofEthe Mississippi and tou>
times its current down the eastern val
ley. ;st w Y
( The western range, lowering 4at frs
10 support on sits broad gshoulders th'
plains OF Bogota (thes bed of san sancien
Z lake covering 200 square miles, wher'
was formerly'the seat of Jthe gZuipi elm
pirc) rapidly rising toward the north un
Ill the great emountains OF the SAINT
Y Rosa lead tho procession $of 5snow.cla,
peaks andllook out ionS tho Bay Of $Ven
nzuela. TT OnSthe Cauca; 5Atrat0 Eand th
Upper Magdalena lie the mineral dis
.ricts Of ftfAreQuipa and Bolivar ,$whicl
have ranked as tho first, and to-day ran
as the second, gold producing fields g
the world. ~ sSs. 81
,5 The Magdalena, I'm a surveyed \ dis
lance OF 500 miles; rises LOO feet or q
Z average Of ID little over two feet ITO 9Th
mile, and presents no moro obstruction
than heayys forests and large Stributar
streams. The Cauca lends BY an aseen
,wice as rapid through Scultivated va
lcys to the height Eof nearly 9, 900 fee
Upon the Cauca, and between 1t and th
Upper Magdalena,, lie the mining town
Of Medellin, Munizales and Slbagpe, ,.th
whole district containing over Z ,OO0, ,0
!hhabitants. s;aF
~ AN UNKNOWN DuT. RICH COUNTRY.
The choice lies between those route
:Ehe mountain district! Syetaunmea
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