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

low the divide. and II will have to be
lifted that height on the railroad be-
fore II can take its long shoot down
the Andes to the Pacific. The Andes
are, you know, nowhere very low and
the railroad to the top VIII be expen-
sive, but the civil engineers tell me en-
tirely practical. The road will have to
climb up the Andes to an altitude of
IA 900 feet, and 1t will at that point
not he more than seventy-flve miles
in a straight line from the coast. II will
probably cost more than any similar
mileage in the United States, but Mr..
Gardner says 1t will pay almost from
the start. Leaving the Pacific It will go
un a river valley which Is sunlSen IN
among the sands of the Peruvian
desert. This valley has number OF
sugar estates and other plantations.
and there are other valleys which could
be tapped later on. The road winds
about like n snake on its way UP the
mountains. Crossing the Andes the rail-
road will reach number of good sized
towns and some rich agricultural coun-
try.
THE CITY OF CAJAMALCA.
A branch Will extend to Caiamaica.
the city where Pizarro held the Inca
king Atahualpa, in prison. and where
he later on had him put to death. You
remember the story. Atahualpa was the
ruler of the whole western coast of
South America. He had, 1t is esti-
mated, about 10000, 900 people subject to
him, and this region had then a higher
state of civilization than II has today.
When the Spanish freebooter Plzarro
entered the country with handful of
soldiers and a few horse he was met at
Cajamalca by Atahualpa and klndl-
treated. Pizarro asked him to dine with
him, and when unarmed he came into
the house or palace which Plzarro by
bIa favor WINS QcpluViup. he pttirp1
him and the Spanish soldiers slauHh-
tered his attendants. The person of the
Inca king was so sacred that this event
paralyzed the nation. and at Atahaul-
pas request war was not made. Then
Atahualpa said that IL Plzarro would
he was confined with gold to
point as high as he could reach
This was agreed to and for several
weeks gold was brought in great loads
from all parts of Peru. The room was
seventeen feet long by twenty-five feet
wide, and the point up to which II was
to he filed was designated by n red
mark nine feet above the floor The
gold was In all sorts of shapes. Some
of II was composed of gold plates torn
from the Temple OF the Sun ut Cuzco
There was great variety Of golden
basins. drinking cups and other dishes
pieces of beautiful carved workman
ship. When the room was almost filed
up to the mark indicated, Pizarro or
dered the Indian goldsmiths to melt the
whole into ingots. and there was so
much gold that they worked day and
night for month In doing so. Then
Pizarro refused to let Atahualpa go
and with mock trial had him put to
death. There liz n stone in Cajnmaica
which the Indians say Is stained with
Atahualpa's blood. A prison now COW
ers the spot where the palace stood
and II Is in one OF the rooms of this
prison that the stone is shown.
THE SILVER MINES OF NORTH
PERU.
The road will also mass through the
| rich mining town of Hualgayoc where
| the silver veins are rich bevend des-
| oription. and from where the silver
| with which Pizarro's soldiers shod
| their horses probably came. There arr