Arizona republican., 1901-02-15
No Other For Years.
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 Quito received telegrams from Presi- dent Alfaro, Minister of Foreign Rela-
 tlOns Peralta, Minister of the Interior
 Moncayo and the charge q affairs of Great Britain. each in nltterng terms expressing his pleasure at our return
 to Ecuador, etc. etc.
 At Guayaquil the general manager.
 Major Harman and Superintendent
 Hancock of the G X e. R. R. notified
 me that a special ferry to Duran and
 train from there to Chimbp would be
 at my disposal any day and hour
 might name. On the 17th of December
 l found myself seated in Major Han
 cocks private car with Superintendent
 Hancock and he treasurer of the road
 Mir. Morley. with a baggage car only
 attached.
 We had a delightful run to Chimbo
 through sugar, rice and cacao lands.
 also the home of all kinds of tropical
 fruits sixty miles, and the only line of compl ted railroad in this republic,
 where We were met by what is called "Asrinwall's mule train and by It
 tckeN on push cars one mile farther to
 Victoria. a most beautiful plateau sur rounded by mountains dens ly covered
 with tropical vegetation, where l was
 the guest of Major Harman
 The next morning Ee out-ntted mo with five cargo mules and one to ride,
 and after breakfast at F m, We were
 off. accompanied by Major Harman for TWO days. or to the end of where work is now being prosecuted on the
 extension of the. road to Quito Al
 II sg-4, | river. For the two nights We sl pt in the engineers camps and enjoyel camp life once more very much
 But the road! l wish I could show
 it to you, My pen can give you little idea of what it is. The Chan Chan river Is a succession of cascades or rushing, secthing water. fairly wedged In between two preciptous walls, in places thousands of feet high; it, per chance. may be that deep romantic | chasm" of which Coloridge wrota, at ! l=ast 1t is well described by him, A chasm tArou,h which no man. no, not even an' indian, eyer lass- ct urgil the engineer ccIpS d!- rcctel the construction @. l trlil ! over which they could pass Al ! times this trail was high Ip on the | sides of the mountain, at others, close by the side of the raging waters which | We had to cross more than a dozen
 times. The bridges are about four feet wiae and suspended by strong cabl' s ! fastened in the solid rock on each side A few days before, when MT. Ash mead. one of the engineers, was eros | sing over one of tn SC bridges his mule al ln FrnGn i himself from the mule and staid on ' the bridge. but the mule went down 1 forty feet and was killed. Not much | fun in travelling suCh road. At ope | point singh blast b'ew off su h A
 quantity of rock, which fell in the river | bed. tha it Cdmmel the water u2 fp q | depth of nearly forty feet.
 Along the line of the work we found
 three or four thousand negroes at
 work brought thcr from Jamaica, and | two thousand more coming. The na- | tives cant be induced to do tha'
 work When the road reaches the | Andean plateau it is expected they vi! | do good work, and the negroes will | then be returned to Jamaica. as the 1 contract of the railroad contractor
 with the government requires. An | official c-me with them to see thelr | rights secured. It Is hoped that the | road will )c competed to Quito in two ! years.
 After leaving the last engineers camp | we commenced the climb of the nose | of the mountain" Backward and for
 ward zig-z3 gging, up, up. we went on | a trail so na rrow that, hy careful meas | urement of the eye. in many places , there ware not more than six inch"s | and many more not more than twelve | inches between the path on which the i mule trod and an abyss hundreds and, at times. thousands of feet below. No wonder was it that the head grew dizzy and the legs tingled with peculiar : sensation-Cf course not fear, but a ! something incident tO the high alti- | tude CD lt was relief at least, to e,e above the clouds and have them | hide from view the yawning gulf, but | they could not bar the hissinG, warm
 c.s he,Jw, "to fall into whose embrace means death" We were rcjc,c-d when | the nose f ttr mountain wGs Ta's d | for our pl assure in crossing over 1t was not that of ny on the nose Of | a sleeper 1T church, under a dry ser mon, on a not summers day.
 The balance of the road to Quito
 was comparatively-noti l say com paratively-good We felt like con graduating ourselves when We left | the nose" but congratulations didn't last long. for we soon found ourselves | on the "Palmi q Pass" 1 assure you | this Is not the Ilac> described by Long | fellow when he wrote:
 "Winds were soft. and woods were | green" for no green woods were there | to be seen, all nature was bleak and bare; the scene was well described by Wordsworth when he wrote:
 Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth" For far and near huge piles of black sand, in places as much as ten feet deep. filled thc would-be road, requir- | inE many detours. to which We would not have objected so much had it not been for the winds that were II t soft
 now whirlng. cddyiug around throw ing bushels of the pcsky sand over us.
 and then agdsn thy would come gal lop,ng over the pains to meet us at the rate of sixty miles an hour. in no slight degree retarding the forward movement
 Each succeeding day an escort was l sent with us, at times much to my