The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-08

May aess la tsse lafaravo gold
REGIONS. FL the southern psFs OF TIE oSss~
f~y. i uset further yosta = Mr. or
mo told me tlas De rad just sesafea q
concession for aoan sssrtes. of Ssw sosN.
for fse right 10 bud siseffse street raii-
ways in and about Lima. ard tfeFes N
Psessrnayo a corps OF American eivsi
engineers are Ii yfag ouf TIRE IeIfs for
the Pacific Company 10 valuable eos4
I1sFIes Ia EAs inferior THIS o-SInP1u ~ n&s
leased the pier here Of the PsfsSsan gov
erumens foS the term Of tsn Es1rs. are
r. sx the idea 10 make lnls tie teTsf1Bas
OF the railroad
The Ansericaa parry al Facasfnayo CON
sssss OF Mr O. gglnfan t5ardsser. forrnefis
superlurenaeEl OF tae Pennsylvania rail-
road. ard the builder Of the Me2scan Ma
fiona. sao Il the general manager OF fas
connfHny. Maj william ii. FsstsffpF, 81
Philadelphia another well known Penn
SyIyauga ralr6s,a mar. who - actfsg ~
chief eBg.neef: Mr. r. y Rock. or Sew
York, ard Mr. H. III Kaufman anG koss
who have for faany years oeeh III Sosf
nsss III South America. ard who BOW g
the enlsf shipping and import business o.
sssss part OF Peru. Ia addition 10 tisss.
met there Is an English engineer, Mr.
Herbert Wood, and also seysral psfNsr
ans 'fse surveying party has been IN Inc
mountains for the past three ns1aShs Y
returned tae niglIs before ] landed. and
am abe 10 gtse tfn latest and fullest
news from ms talks With tfae engineers
Eut FIRST lei ms tel you something about
the cofteegsios. wkien this company has
and lta probable effect on South American
Affairs. II the scheme he carried ous az
a now comic npiafed IL viii result IN put
ting America 10 the front In Peru, and IL
will. I be.ievc make kolne Americans ricn.
The Pacific Company has an authorized
capital Of so co. aad Hifmaer OF the
ieaaiag business men ~ New York, Phia-
ssIpa.a and Lima are interested IN X.
1T haa concessions for valuable rUal mines,
which he az In the Andes AT a distance OF
from e 10 ~ niles back from the coast,
and has the exclusive right 10 build and
operate railroads running 10 tEeae mines
It's CONCESSION was granted In isaz 20 ssntn~
berf b. Jones' and lasts fer twenty years
The country covered by H. and To when
II car have no competitors, riaf Tor about
100 mics along the coast, and y amour as
biz AZ the state Of Maryland. The com
pany Is. ] am told, proceeding liz work
with iss cwts means. and Il Is said That
there Is plenty Of money behind q.
The Coal Mines Of the Andes
These American coal mines of the Andes.
with "A good railroad. would be mora tai-
liable than gold mines. Tnsre ~ pas
tica.fy no good coal on the west Pacific
coass of South America. OF the 3vDo.vp
fona used every year the bulk cosaes ron.
Australia England. Japan and British
Columbia. Chile has SoBe m.nes. aut
none that are very good. The coal scta
on the coast brings Al the way from y 70
SO a ton, and the demand viii extend as
tar north AS San Fraucs~ro. which new
buys much OF its fuel from Australia. IN
deed, Il Ii said that the largest Hest al
the Pacific ocean is the coal fleet, Mr..
Gardner tells me that when this road 10
completed he viii be abe 10 mine ana
lard coal al the coast at at cost OF y
ton and that he sees no reason why ne
should not supply 100000 tons year.
lie hopes TO extend the road alter on 10
the Maranon river, a navsgahie branch OF
the Amazon. which compares 10 it al The
Missouri does to the Mississippi This, he
says viii require .ess than 100 miles or
additional road building. and VIII bring
the steamers OF tbs Amazon 10 within
about co. miles of the isaciEc coast. by
this extension the great Amazon country,
with It's thousands of mites of navfgabe
waters. vii, be reached. and the Andean
coal vii. be furnished to the eastern coast
OF South America
The Anthracite Beds OF Perm.
The Goa. fields OF the Andes include both
anthracite and ignite coal The company
now owns about forty anthracite proper
ties. The anthracite is practically unlmit-
ed. and Ii has been tested and found 10 be
az good as that OF the famous Lehigh
valley. There Is some soft coal on the
west slope OF the mountains. bat the an
,hracite les on the east slope. about f,s1o
or s.tuo feet he,ow the divide. and it VIII
have 10 ae lifted that height on the rail-
road before II can take It's long shoot
down me Andes 30 the Pacific. The. An
Dies are. yon know. nowhere very low.
and the railroad 10 the top VIII be cx-
pensive. bnt tho civil engineers tel me en-
tsrelv practical. The read viii have TO
climb UP the Andes 10 an altitude OF 1900
feet. and II will ut that point not be more
than any similar mileage In a straight
line from the coast. Ii Will probably cost
more than any similar mileage In the
United States. bat Mr. Gardner SAYS 4,
~y..l~s,ay almost from the start Leaving
tie Pacific Il vii. 80 up river valley
which Is sunken in among the sands OF
the Peruvian desert, This valley has
number OF sugar estates and other planta~
..ons and there ara other valleys which
could be tapped later on. The read wn.ls
about THE a snake on It's way up the
mountains Crossing the Andes Tire rail-
road viii reach q number OF good sized
tawns and some rieh agricultural country
The cts et tatamaica.
A branch will extend to Csjamalca. the
city where Ptzsrfo held IN. Inca king
.Atahaaia. IN pfiscB. ard where no later
On had him pG' ~ death You remember
.he story AtahUasna was she ruler OF the
whole western ccasi af Saath America
lie had. II IS estimated. about seala.ts1
people subject 10 aim. and this region had
then higher state II civilization than !;
has today. Whsa the spanish freebooter
rszarix, entered the country with hand
fal OF soldiers and a few sor~ss he was
net IT tsaian sic8 is Atahualgsa ard
kindly treated pigarFo asked him 30 alne
With him, aad when uHasmed IA, came
INTO tho heass es palace WhicA FiEa~re
By his favar VAS ecsU3N1ng. 81 captured
him AMI tea S8steish ~oisiiers slaughtered
his attendants TEe nersoa - ths Inca
siar MAS - Sacred }h9t ;h.s even; parar-
wed tho uatieu. and a. Aethss.ts'x re-
guest wsr wsS net made. Then kf-h,..
alna said shsA 10 rlsarro woa'd ~. A.,
hss, ne would 81 gbe casef ~an-. rs ,,.-
palace IN which ae was cethac8 wftA se;s
- a paint rs hlsh ~ cau't rss8cA rhs
VAS Agreea 20, srsi fcF sRveta. Wveks sod
was brought in greas leaGs from a. psr.S
81 peg3E T'ha room WAS seventeen reet
bv twenty-five }ses wiip ami the aasnt
Gn ~ whtra .t vas - 1ss flj}ei WAS dsse g.
natesi by Is re0 mark ane fssey sAove thc
81 a. ..EF.