Evening star., 1898-05-07

blood. A prison now covers the spot where
the palace stood, and it is in one OF the
rooms Of this prison that the stone is
shown.
The Silver Mines of North Peru.
The road will also pass through the rich
mining town of HUalgayoc, where the sill
yer veins are rich beyond description, and
from where the silver with which Pizarros
soldiers shod their horses probably came.
There are copper and lead mines along the
re ute and as fs- 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 sulphi''e and
carried on mules down to the seacoast to
be shipped to England or Germany for re-
Guction.
AS 1 write this 1 see a dispatch in the
Lima paper which has just reached here
stating that the first installment Of rails
for this road has just been shipped from
Philadelphia. 1t is to be hoped that the
work of construction will be rapidly push
ed, for the other foreigners here are very
jealous of any American Innovations, ard
will not scruple at anything which VIII
block the wheels of Yankee progress. This
Is especially so of the English who,
through the Peruvian corporation, now
control most of the railways of Peru. The
development of this concession Will make
the American influence very strong, and
1t may possibly result in our getting q coal
ing station for our navy in this part of the
Pacific. The pier which has been reared
here for the terminus of the railroad is
one of the finest in South America. 1t cost,
1 am told, 100000 to build it. 1t Is made
of iron, and is about forty feet wide ard
just half a mile long. 1t extends that
distance out into the harbor, and forms one
of the principal 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 a cattle-growing COUP
try, and a large amount of livestock is
shipped. Cattle are loaded by raising them
in sings by means of derricks from the
end of the pier and dropping them into the
lighters. When about 100 fat beeves have
been thus dropped lighter is FULL and 1T
Is taken away to the ship. There is row a
railroad track upon the pier. and the cars
OF the railroad which goes up this valley
bring their shipments of sugar, coffee and
hides out to the ships over 1t, paying tue
American company for the privilege.
The OIL Regions of Peru md Ecuador
All along the coast above here 1 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 Pa
cific coast from Ecuador for some distance
into Peru. The Ecuador oil fields / learned
OF in Guayaquil. They have not been
touched as yet. ard hardly prospected, so
that the information concerning them is
indefinite and haZy. / was told, however.
that flowing wells OF crude petroleum are
found all along the Ecuadorian coast, from
Cape St. Helena southwark. 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
! greasy film. North of Cape ST. Helena
wells have been sunken by Ecuadorians
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GuayaquIl to be used for fuel in the boil
erS of the steamers on the Guyas river