Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-17

,,.rc,ai and manufacturing line In
n,,nv ways. and that 10 our profit
,vrrAr AMERfCANs HAVE DONE
IN CHILE.
,-.u. q, fact. owes great deal to the
$500 Tho first of her railroads
l,s,,i,cc and this was the fifsi railroad
IN, In south America. Her hrst great
-, r,.hsp line was founded BY Yam
49, ,,.r,ed Wheeirighi. who brought
NJ, s,e,,. 10 New York, but could md
no AZ, 10 support n. lie then went 70
London and there organized the PACING
sieam Navigation company. whl'h ~.
the mOsi pnweriul nctt OF wv ~.
cn..t N has sixty steamers, incluhlng
.',,5s,., ni,,ing between Valparaiso and
~ ~. uS,ta III tha tsthmus % Panama,
81 ,tso "A atoamship line between Nal-
- ,,d liverpool ~ should pay
~. ai,.fd.rds for with the chilean
g.,,,h Awrrlcnn StcamEhip compass
,-ith which u combines. u hha tue
nonopniy of the freight az" psiseh.
scr iravei and charges tho hiEne"
rates. The railroad between Val ,a,
rniao and Santiago. little over ivy
n,tiss 49, bulif b. an American. Hem
~ ,t.ts,@a ,,ho constructed also many
| atNSr rsads In Peru. Meiggs came iirsi
| a. rhit. frofu California. HIS phftn 7
! ,h.,c mad ruined him financially ana
l he ran away 20 avoid hit'tl' NWihs
/ some 100000 Hc arrived 10 ftiu alIl
| pcnniicss. but got the contract i9r ln wv,
| road by offering to build u Tor anou'
/ MIR the amount asked by some hnE.
| ian enrlncors. lie made money out oi
/ h and from that time he became one
/ ~ tho Greatest contractors nouin or ih'
| lsiiimua. lie built other roads anu made
fortunes out Of them. hc theh won't y
| chile and there contracted TOT WORKS
! Of HFHNNN Cd
! Itc bniit Tho famous Or0yA road up the
| Ande. hack ~ Lima. which u the
/ rfcrp.at and I doubt not the coailltst
/ rsei ever built, and whom h. died he
| wa putting tunnel into the mountain
| OF Ccrro De Paaco to strike aud ifain
the great silver deposit thcre. MeiFt.
| was undoubtedly an able man, bui
whether he WAS an honest man or not
have NOT been able TO determine. llil
friends say he was, and they state thtl
out III hia firat earnings ln thllo be sent
hack TO California the $1,000 Tor which
he was indebted. Others fAy he va,
tricky, and In this connection ! was tod
asserted he worked 20 his pront w,
we're walking along the Alameda and
admlrlng the great palaces In which IN
nabobs Of this city i've, when my friend
said.
"Do you see tina, house there on III
! Cornnrf'
yes" said I. II must have cost
fortune TO build ~"
at dld," was the reply. THAT houn'
belonged 90 Henry MelTFH lie bull
two magnificent palaces In SANTIAGO
and In doing so spent, ! vcntur,, nor
than half million dollars. lie sol,
them. however. when times were hard
for more than their cost"
How ala h. 10 itf''
"lIc dld o. by a lottery scheme. u
which there were 100000 tickets 1netg'
for sale az a dollar apiece. The unll
prizes wcrc that house and the Other
which h. further down the street. Wei
only G00.00l tickets were sold. ana Whol
tho drawing was made V was iouW
that the numbers Of the prizes were J. 7
, among the 700 UNFOLD blanks. ~
, YOU see. MclgEa got his tsoo.0go ana h'l
on to his houses The people were mae
but nothing was done"
FRANK O, CARPENTER.