Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

copper and lead mines along the route.
and as far as / can learn the whole
region is full of undeveloped mineral
wealth. The workings of the silver
mines so far have been after the rudest
methods. the silver being reduced to
a sulphide and carried on mules down
to the seaooast, to be shipped to Eng
land or Germany for reduction.
As write this / see dispatch in
the Lima paper which has Just reached
This is especially so of the English,
ment of rails for this road had been
shipped from Philadelphia. 1t is
to be hoped that the work OF construc
ton will be rapidly pushed, for the
other foreigners here are very jealous
of any American Innovations and will
block the wheels of Yankee progress.
here stating that the first install
who. through the Peruvian corpora
ton. now control most of the railways
of Peru. The development of this con-
cession will make the American infiu-
encc very strong, and 1t may possibly
result in our getting coaling station
for our navy In this part OF the Pa
cilc. The pier which has been reared
here for the terminus OF the railroad
Is one of the finest In South America.
II cost ! am told. S1,00O,0O0 to build II.
II is made of Iron, and is about forty
feet wide and just half mile long.
II extends that distance out into the
shipping places of this part of the
world. The steamers do not come to
the pier, but lie some distance away.
and the goods are taken out to them
in lighters. This is n cattle growing
country, and large amount of live
stock is shipped. Cattle are loaded by
raising them in sings, by means of
derricks fom the end Of the pier and
dropping them into the lighters. When
about 100 fat heeves have been thus
dropped a lighter is fun, and 1t is taken
away to the ship. There is now rail-
road track upon the pier. and the cars
Of the railroad which goes up this val
ley bring their shipments of sugar
coffee and hides out to the ships over
1t, paying the American company for
the privilege.
THE OIL REGIONS OF PERU AND
ECUADOR.
All along the coast above here saw
signs of the oil fields of Peru. At one
port we stopped and took on thousands
OF boxes of petroleum for Lima. and
at another We saw the refineries on the
edge OF the sea. There seems to be an
almost continuous strip of oil territory
running down the Pacific coast from
Ecuador for some distance into Peru.
The Ecuador oil fields. 1 learned of In
Guayaquil. They have not been touched
as yet, and hardly prospected, so that
the Information concerning them is IN
definite and hazy. / was told, however,
that flowing wells of crude petroleum
are found all along the Ecuadorian
coast, from Cape st. Helena south
ward, and that in many places the flow
of oil is such that when the weather
is calm 1t covers the sea for a distance
out from the shore with Il greasy film.
North of Cape st. Helena wells have
been sunken by Ecuadorlans, and some
of the Output has ben sent to Guaya-
| quill to be used for fuel In the boilers
OF the steamers on the Guyas river. The
parties working the wells however.
were natives, and. as is usual in many
such cases. no practical tests were
| made. From what was told at Guaya-
| quill. should think 1t might pay to
| Investigate this territory. The land on
| which the oil exists belongs to the gov
| eminent and any one has the right to
denounce 1t. By "denounce" I mean to
take It up for mining purposes. One
man. under the law. would have the