Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-24

of the ocean. AS a result mining is ex-
| pensve, and coal from Australia and Eng
| land completes with the Chilean coal. The
| coal that the Pacific Companys railroad
will open up is on the highlands of the
| Andes, and it will cost but little to get it
| down to the seacoast. If they have as
good deposits as they think their conces-
| sion should be a very valuable one"
Railroads to the Amazon.
"I suppose that a railway will be eventual
ly extended by the Pacific company to the
| AmaZon?"
| Probably so." replied Minister Dudley
| but you must remember that it is only a
| concession yet. There is no road built
1t is also planned to extend the Oroyo rail-
road to the Ucayalf river which is one of
the navigable branches of the Amazon. The
| distance from the end of the Oroyo line
| the same road we have been talking about
in connection with the new copper prop
| critics, to the Ucayalf Is only about one
| hundred and fifty miles. When 1t is built
| one can go In barges and boats down that
| river to the Amazon. That road would
open up the Peruvian territory adjoining
| the Acre territory which Bolivia has just
sold to Brazil. There are valuable rubber
forests In that region, and it is probable
| that similar forests are also found on Peru
| Wan soil. The government would like to
have railroad there; that it could
| quickly transport troops to that point in
| case of trouble. The Brazilians are. you
facilitate travel to and from the Amazon"
The Backwoods Of Peru.
"It must be difficult for Peru to control
her territory on the eastern slopes of the
Andes? They are practically inaccessible,
| are they not?"
"As far as easy travel is concerned, yes"
said the minister to Peru. Take Iquitos,
| which is in Peru, on the Maranon, great
| river that forms part of the Amazon 1t
used to be that officials going from Lima
| to IquitoS sometimes went around the
Strait of Magellan and clear up the At
| lantic coast of the continent to the mouth
| of the Amazon and then up the Amazon to
| IQuitos. At present a favorite way is to go
| to the Isthmus OF Panama and then up
the Amazon One can go up the Oroyo road
and thence down by trail to the Ucaya1
| and thence by boat on to Iquitos but that
| takes several weeks, and In coming back
| 1t would take more, as the boats go much
| more slowly up stream. You can go from
New York to Iquitos in less time venture,
| than 1T would require to get there from
Lima by way of the Ucayali. There are
steamers from New York to Manaos,
which is thousand miles up the Amazon
and there are smaller steamers from Ma
| naos to Iquitos"
Automobiles for the Inca Capital.
How about the railroad that takes one
from the Pacific to Lake Titicaca? Has it
been extended?"
That road has extension to Sicuani,
and from there a wide carriage road has
|, been built to CuZco, the old capital of the
Incas. There are freight automobiles now
used to connect CuZco with the trains and
this road ought to open up the ruins of that
famous city to visitors. There are good
trains from the Pacific to Lake Titicaca
and 1t will now take but short time TO
reach Cuzco from there Cuzco is a town
of about 20. 600 or so. 1t is the center of a
rich province and a busy place though 1t
has nothing of its political importance of
the past At the time that the Spaniards
came it was perhaps the richest of all the
INDIAN cities south of the isthmus. Pizarro
got much of his booty from there. and the
tradition Is that he took from one native
temple 10000 pounds of gold and $4,000
pounds of silver. Some of this came from
the Temple of the Sun, at Cuzco."
How about the hidden treasures of the
Incas, Mr.. Dudley? It Is said they buried