The Arizona champion., 1890-04-05

the Panama R. R. Co.'S. yards
 They have 47 miles of main lin,
 and 1900 cars, over 100 engines they do an immense business, as al
 ships have to transfer over this road or go around the Horn, the
 railroad Is run mostly by Americans
 We met several Americans here.
 The counsel, young man that runs
 the electric lights, and several rail
 road men. We left Panama Mon day morning at 10 o'clock Dec. 30, on the Santa Rosa," an English steamer. Our fare first class was $50 U. s. Gold or $50 Columbia silver. It was very rough the first day out and several were sick.
 But Bill and I are old "salts" by this time and can stand any thing.
 We had very ni;e new year on board. In the morning before day light, the crew had rigged up band cf music. They had instru- ments of every description they had torches and marched up and down the deck, and played some of the finest music. My, it was grand. It almost put one to sleep; but not quite. The captain had prepared for it the besC he could by having the large bell taken down and the whistle also, they were serenading the officers for a treat. I will try and describe the music. They had chains of all sizes old pans and bells d horn or two, barrels with ropes in them, and boards to rub together. We would have thought the ship vas lost if we had not been prepared for it. We had a nice new years dinner but one gets good dinners aboard ship every day. We passed the Equator the night of the first of of January l89O at $50 o'clock and our first place to land after leaving Panama was Guayaquiel, which is in Ecuadore. Here we stopped for one day. It is quite large city. In going into Guay- aquile we had to 50 up the river by the same name as the city for 90 miles. This was the finest of views we had since we left San Francisco. It is 800 miles from Panama. Here the boat was loaded with all kinds of tropical fruits. As the further south we get from here the colder it grows. There was $500 punches of bananas, l50,000 or anges, and about 35,000 pine ap- ples and about 600 bushels of man. goes. So we had the ship loaded from bottom to top with the finest fruit one would want to see. The fruit was in charge pf ChiIlian wo- men who are called traders on the coast. They had beside fruit all kinds of birds, and monkeys, and fancy work made by the natives.
 Our next port was Payton which is in Peru. Here we saw the forts and the old canons used in the late war with Chili. From here we stopped at from one to three ports a day, till we arrived at Callao, one of the principal ports of South America. It has 10000 inhabi- tants; here we stopped three days. The first night we took the train for Lena; the Capital of Peru: The population is 35,OO0 It is a very nice place, fine parks; street cars, electric lights, and everything is kept nice and clean. We stopp- ed at first class house and t cost us S3 in their money, which has a discount of soc. The railroad is run by Americans. That is the Engineers and Conductors. When we got back from Leml to the ship we found most of the ship unloaded of the fruit for they do not have anything of that kind so far south. But they were loading it with cab bage, onions and all kinds of vege- tables for the ports south, as it is all a mineral country and they are short of water and do not raise anything The mines are silner, gold and nitra; and run all along the coast for l80 miles. I will give you the principal ports we stopped at and went ashore.
 Pisco; Mollendo, Africa; Pesaqua; Applique; Antofogasta; Caldera; Huasco, Coquimbo: The last place is 200 miles from Valparaiso. We arrived at the end of our journey by water on the morning of the 18th ot January at 5 o'clock, went to the Hotel de English, a nice .hoase at at s per day. The city is situated on hill or you might say on thousand hills, for it is up and down all the time. It has a population of l35,0O0. We stopped three days in this city, Saw the main parts, such as: Parks, Forts, Men-of War, and everything of interest. The first thing I saw that looked strange was on the Street Railways, the Conductors are all ladies. They tell me that it is on account of the war with Peru, and Argentine Republic-that they have so many more women than