The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-17

stays there urfss some ctsssr planter. II
wiling 10 pay him cut and take him snce
his ssrviee Even sfscufd mar get out q
debt rhe conditions are such that he Is
soon II again IL there Il death 10 his
family he has 20 bo-row money 20 bury
hts dad III he woasd hs married. the
priests wsl charge him s. fcr performing
the csrers0szy. ard II ne wants u hog or q
donkey II ~ onfy By going mo debt that
NJ can ger shegn A. 70 marriage. he us1-
ally prefers 70 iise without tsTe ceremony
20 Paying the marriage fees. and today.
81 Is said. on this aceoun: IS per cent az
the births In Ecuador are iI.egitimate.
Wages Ia Gnayaquii and along the coast
are much higher than IN the interior. In
the Giles common workmen get Is cents
day. carpenters from ss-s0 10 =. masons.
painters and biacksnishs about the same.
and ms servants employed by the month,
from SO 20 So. with board. Women re-
ceiYe from 81 TO SO. with board. TaiIors
and shoemakers receive from IS to 81 per
week and printers. bakers and BARRIERS
thu same Living is In some respects very
cheap. but as regards impor ted articles ex-
ce~dsagiy dear. j paid 81 a pound for
canned meats. ana camp bed which
carry with me- which would be worth per-
haps s. al home. cost me In Guayaquil s.
or our monty Chairs. Which could be
bought for 20 cents at home. cos: here s.
They come In pieces and are pu; together
by the furniture dealers. All imported ar
fieles cost q vast deal more in the interior
on account 81 the excessive freight rates
There being no means for transportation
over she mountains except on mules or on
the backs Of men.
From BOdeGas to Quito.
This town Of Bodegas or Babahayo Is
the halfway station on the road 20 Quito.
Here AL goods from the interior plateau
between great Auleau svanre.z ore
brought aid sent down fhe river by raft,
boat or steamer. Just now the floods are
such faat the goods are brought TO the
town Of Savaneia, days ride by canoe
from Bodegas, ard are brought by water
TO this point As write. dozens OF canoes
are being unioaded and their freight car
ried onto the steamer picturesque. half
NAKED poems go along the streets with
great loads OF hides. bags OF rubber or
boxes OF lard on their back. held there by
ropes fastened above their foreheaus.
Ihey are natives who have carried their
goods on their backs or upon donkeys
down the mountains for sale. They work
more like beasts than men, laboring for
the mere piItance which have mentioned
ABOVE II ts by such means that ali
freight = carried from the sea coast TO
tbs capital. It takes twenry-four Indians
10 carry piano. and the cost of the
freight is greater by the time they reach
Quito than the cost Of the piano itself
Thus ordinary packages of goods put up
IN bundles or boxes of 100 pounds each
form load for a mule. and such a load
from here to Quito costs from Sc 10 S.
or from SO to so per tor The freight ON
small boiler recently sen: was 500, and
the fates for heavy articles are such as
to prohibit them. The distance OF this
city from the coast Is 100 miles, and from
here 10 Quito is i65 miles Think OF paying
Se0 for carrying ton OF freigh; lS5 miles
and you see one OF the difficulties of de-
vfiopiEg trade with Interior Ecuador
And still 1t .s said that good wagon road
could be made the whole way. The passes
over the mountains into the valley are
nearly three miles In height and the roads
are mule paths. which at this writing are
almost impossible. had Intended 10 have
made the journey 10 Quito. and bought a
camping outfit ar a cost of SIS 10 do H.
Here. however. I am told that owing 10
the recent foods Il win take at least ten
days OF mule riding through the mud and
rain. and the Brazilian minister, who has
Just come through from Quito. tells me
that he had TO wade part of the way
through water up to his waist. The Ecua-
dorians may well say: Our roads are for
birds, not men" There is in fact. only
one good piece OF road In all Ecuador
tbs Is about seventy miles tong ard il
runs from Ambata. on the plateau, TO