Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-02
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placing this contract Senior CalderonG'
J asked.
II do not know" replied the Bolivian
minister Il shall FIRST Try the United
states and II your capitalists do not
want 49, shall then go TO Germany
fruuCe or England. | have had assur-
anccs that Ii can be easily handled ln
London. Paris or Berlin. Indeed there
are London parties who would be glad
10 take the contract just now should
prefer however, to deal with American
capital and with Americans. Your peO-
pie are more aggressive and more push
ing You have a republic as we have
and our sympnthles are with you rath-
or than with Europe There is vast
amount of American capital now await
Ing profitable investment and we have
one Of the Richest countries Of the
world and want 1t developed. think
our interests are altogether with the
United States In this matter II we can
make the proper DEAL
NEW RAILROADS PROPOSED.
Just where are the railroads which
you want to build Senior Caldcron|' J
asked.
II can show you best by laying them
out upon the map said the minister
as ne placed a chart OF South America
be- fore me. Here IN Bolivia, country
n ore than 10 times IS big NJ your state
Of New York, shut off from the ocean
by the desert landN OF chill ana Peru
and bounded on the other side by the
richest parts Of Brazil and the Argen-
tine Republic The country Is chiefly
made up of the high plateaus and
mountains Of the Andes, which are rich
I'm all sorts of minerals and are valuable
also for agriculture and stock raising.
on the northwestern boundary Hes
Lake Titicaca great inland sen In the
tops OF the Andes, now reached by
railway from Mollendo on the Paciiic
coast OF Peru. Farther over are the
headwaters OF the Beni river, about the
cataracts Of which Brazil has just con-
tracted to build railroad which viii
give Bolivia access To the Madeira
and down that river to the Amazon
and the Atlantic ocean on the south
east Is the Argentine Republic, with
railroads almost to our boundary and
on the south and west Chill with u
railroad six hundred miles long, com
Meeting some OF our richest mineral
regions with Antofagasta, That rail-
road now crosses the CHILEAN desert and
goes inland TO Oruro about $50 miles
from La Paz'
TO OPEN UP THE TIN MINES,
1--WE already have "A railroad from the
| southern side Of Lake Titicaca TO La
| paz. lake Titicaca has good steam
! ship service and goods are now brought
to Mollendo and thence carried up the
| mountains by rail to Lake Titicaca, and
across that lake by steamer and thence
! by road TO LAT Paz. We now propose
| to build n railroad from La Paz tc
| Oruro connecting that city with the
present railroad system going down tc
the Pacific.
I'VE shall also buil1 branch lines
from Uyuni to Potosl, one OF the riches
mineral regions OF the globe, and an
other line to Tupi2a TO connect will
the Argentine system. These lines vii
be comparatively short but they vii
give an outlet TO some Of the riches
tin, copper gold and silver deposits o
South America, As IL is now the Anto
fogasta line, which relies almost en-
tirely upon ore for It's traffic pays goo
dividends, Ind these lines Will do IA
better, as they win have all sorts o
traffic.
iThe Tupiza branch will give Boliyi