The Republican journal., 1902-10-30

! DcOk III paper covers, or 81 stamps tor
the volume bound in cloth Address DR..
| R Y. Pierce, Buffalo, N "
----Hz.a.
thirty million dollars invested in Vene-
Zuela, and whose HEADQUARTERS are at
Fanbault, Mimi. The company enjoys
a concession to millions of acres of as
toniShing fertility, besides mineral de
posits of untold value and unlimited
possibilities i'll the way of valuable
timber, including 'balata'' the new
substitute for India rubber.
The men who are employed to de
velop this splendid domain are housed
III tWo-story frame structure which
looks like a hospital. OF summer hotel
Oh the Jersey coast. Among other
! fine things on the 0rinoco Companvs
property is a mountain of iron, said to
contain sixty-seven percent of metallic
ore.
Another stop is made at Las TabIas.
whence all the gold is shipped from the
famous mines of "El Callao," which lie
mp the Carouir river, 1870 miles south OF
Orinoco. In times long past, large
amounts of treasure were taken from
those mines' and they are still claimed
to be among the richest in the world
Ell Callao was accidentally discovered by
a Jamaican negro. named SteibeI. He
sold three fourths OF it to some French
/ tt-lla
sessed of greater intelligence and in a
few Years all We're multi-miliouaires
Though working under enormous dilli-
culties. upwards OF thI9ty-lye million
dollars in gold We're taken out of
Eel Callao during the first twenty
years. According 20 English and
American mining experts, the Callao
( zone" is one uninterrupted gold field
hundred miles wide Unfortunately
it IS almost inaccessible. there being no
regular means of communication be
tween it and the onter world. and
absolutely none OF transport. Coal
sells there for eighty dollars the Ton
and tood-stu1s are literally "out Of
sight"
/ Ten cents per pound is charged for
transporting machinery, which must all
be brought on the backs of men and
mules through the pathless jungle from
the river, Nevertheless, tWenty-six
mines are being worked to-day in the
Calico district and Thousand miners
are earning there at the present mo-
ment from four to twelve dollars day.
| The one thing needful is a railroad
only 1870 miles long. To more fully
comprehend the Oronoco's magnitude,
one must remember that modern geog-
raphers have divided South America in
to three great basinS-those of the A M
azon, the Oronoco and the Rio de la
Plata. To dominate the mouth of one
4 of these colossal arteries of commerce
is to control third of the southern
continent. Within the four hundred
miles between the Oronoco's mouth
| and Culdad Bolivar, its yellow tide re-
| ceiveS twenty other great navigable
rivers; while still further into the in
one large rivers, and the western bank
between thirty and forty. 1t is not
generally known, but is nevertheless a
fact, that the Amazon and the Oronoco
rivers rise at the same source, and that
were few Snags and Sand-bars and
other lmpedlmentS removed a light
/ draught steamer could enter the mouth
of one river and sail out to sea through
/ the mouth of the other, thus crossing
| the continent twice, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, 10y different routes. The
! short distance of Bogota the Capital
/ of Colombia'S S trade, as we'll as that of
/ Ecuador, which at present goes mostly
! to England via Cape Horn, will be
/ seeking the United States through this
new channel. Schemes for dredging
! out the snags and sand-bars have been
| sometime under consideration, and if
| the NeneZuelans and CoIombians could
| only quit "feVolutlng a few months,
the longest line of fresh water naviga-
ton in the world would soon be opened
"a system of water ways more prodig-
ious than the mind can readily conceive.
The upper Oronoco country has never
been thoroughly explored, and to this
day nobody knows what can be found
or raised there; but ever since it's dis
covery, the most astonishing stories
have been told of it. Somewhere in
the heart of those waterways lies the
tabled Eldorado, which the world
dreamed about for two hundred years.
You have read how it was alleged to
have been discovered by that treacher-
GUS knight, Adelantado Gonzaly de Cas-
sada, whom Francisco Pizarro sent on