Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-24

town on about $1,000 or so % Is "a,
Uaptor oi r.n province and busy
place. lboubh 10 has uDthlpg OF Cts poli-
toul Importance M the past SO the
time that the Spauhrds came 10 was
perhaps the richest of an the indian
cities south of the Igthmus. Pizarro BOT
much NJ his booty from there, and the
tradition is that he took from one ma
Tive temple 1000 pounds ~ sold aud
$4,000 pounds NJ silver Some Of this
came from the temple OF the sun, at
Cuzco,"
How about the hidden treasures OF
the lucos Mr Dudley? u Ia said they
buried their gold Iu Che Andes when the
SpanI0rdg began 10 rob them2'
You VIII hear such traditions In all
parts OF the Andes, but doubt whether
there is much truth In them The
Spanigrds carried away about all the
gold ana silver that the luc1s had
mined, and, so far as 1 know but few
hidden treasures have come to light
You see. the lnCas were the ruling class
ana the rest Of the people practically
worked Tor them As % result most Of
the silver and gold came into their
hands and they turned n over Co the
SpanIarda such mining as they did
was after the rulest methods and the
product could not have been worry great
Nevertheless n Is said that The SpWu-
ilrds. for time shod their horses with
silver and pzauo, when ne captured
Atahualpa, the Inca king by treaCh-
cry agreed 10 release him n he would
nm n room II feet wide and % feet long
with gold This was done. and history
tells how plzarro then went back on his
word and put the king 10 death II rs
said that some Of the treasures Of the
ncas were buried shortly after this, IN
Lake Titicaca and otherwheres, but II
so. they are got 20 be found"
BOLIVIAS NEW RAILROADS.
"T understand, Mr. Dudley that
new railroad has been built from Lake
TItIcaca to la Paz?'
Yes a road has been built. but II
does not go down into the city Of la
Paz, You may remember that there Is
u great plateau away up there almost
three miles above the sea, IN which IT.
tlcaCa and LA Paz lie, at a distance OF
40 or 80 miles apart. Tticaca Hes IN one
basin. la Paz IN another The road
begins at GauQuai, the port OF Bolivia
which you reach by sailing across Lake
TltlcaCa from Puno In Peru The new
railroad crosses the plateau to the
Alto, or rim NJ the basin containing La
Paz, and there stops. As you get out
at the depot YOU can walk a short dis
tance and look down at the chief city
NJ Bolovla, which lies about a thousand
feet below you. There are now car
rlages which take YOU down 10 the
city, but plans have been made FOR ca
HE or electric lines and eventually
these will probably go through,
"BOlovla also expects TO build new
railroads with the 1000, 900 pounds
which II received from Brazil for the
Acre territory and among the lines
proposed II the one from la Paz to
Oruru, on the Antofagasta line, thus
giving Bolivia a railroad outlet TO the
Atlantic. ! believe there are also pro-
positions 10 connect with the Chilean
and Argentine railway systems"
ELECTRICITY IN PERU.
"Is Peru developing along electrical
lines?"
mot very rapidly" was the reply
but we have electric lights In Lima
and many Of the factories are run by
electricity Some Of the interior cities
are so lighted We have electric
tramways now running from Lima TO
Callao, our chief port, a distance OF
eight and a half miles and we have
also a tramway from Lima TO Choril-