The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-01
M'CUNE MATCHES
GIGANTIC PLANS
Aims to Control the Industrial Des-
tiny of Peru.
STARTS BIG RAIL SYSTEM
SHELTER AND COKE OVENS OPEN
IN NOVEMBER.
A W. M'cUNE and those associated

- with him in Peru, South America,
are branching out in way that
promises to make them dictators of the
industrial destiny of the little nation.
They have plans well under way for
the construction of a railroad from
Lima to the Cerro De Pasco mining
district. a distance of 10 miles, at a
cost of S7,000,0 900. On the heels. of this
they Will build another branch of rail-
road TO connect their mining districts
With the nearest navigable branch of
the Amazon river at cost that viii
approximate $4,000, 900.
The railroad situation is now con-
trolled by the Peruvian Central Mr.
McCune said last evening. This is
Jerk-Water road owned by English capt.
IalStS. Its rates are so eXOrbitant as
10 be prOhibitive. This makes il neces-
sary for us to build a competing line
When we have this completed the Peru
Wan Central will be worth Just so much
junk. 1t crosses the mountains on
per cent grade. Our road will have
a maximum grade of 2l-2 per cent.
Work will start on this road at once.
We viii strike the coast a little to the
north Of Lima and then run down the
coast to the city
This is but part Of the general
other large mining district. and when
We get our road built we viii have
control OF the metal output of Peru.
We will not stop with the construction
OF the line TO Lima. We Will bui4,
| another branch running east from the
neighborhood of the Cerro De Pasco
mining district 70 the nearest naViga-
bic branch of the Amazon river. This
| branch viii be 175 miles long. 1t viii
cost between 12.000.000 and $4,000, 600
We have already expended between
S11,0O0,000 and $4,000, goo on the Cerro
De Pasco mine, the railroad and the
| smelter and We have not taken out
one dollar. We have taken out large
| quantities of ore but the ore Will not
be shipped until after it has passed
through the smelter- The smelter Will
| be blown in with d capacity of 500 tons
a day early in next November. The
/ full capacity of the plant is 1000 tons
/ but we will run it for a time at 500
! tons.
Money Flows Like Water.
We opened our railroad TO the coal
! mines the Fourth of July of last year.
/ Then we discovered that the coalswould
! not coke and We bought another mine
of good cooking coal This was sixteen
I miles farther away and the railroad il
now being built to that. Coke ovens
are also being built. This work viii
/ all be done in time for the blowing in
of the smelter in November
/ Mr.. McCune SPOKE with enthusiasm
\ OF the CerrO De PascO mine. For a
4 time we were bothered with water in
the shafts" he said, but that was be
cause we did not have pumps to meet
the emergency That difficulty is now
| completely overcome and everything is
working to perfection
After Expert SmeIter Men.
The Utah colony in Peru is grow
J ing, Mr.. McCune said. and when he
| left that country all were doing we'll
/ H. s. Kerr who has charge of the
railroad he considers one of the best
/ men he ever had associated with him
! in work. Twenty expert smelter men
/ from Butte and Mexico will be taken
to Peru when Mr.. McCune returns. He
/ Will have nothing to do personally with
/ the selection OF these men. leaving that
entirely in the hands of Mr.. Case. who
4 viii have charge of the smeIter. and
who is now in this country to select
\ his men.
I 1t is Mr. McCunes intention to re
main in Salt Lake about week look
/ ing after business matters before re-
turning to the far south. He had moth
/ ing to say for publication in relation
/ to the Utah Light & Railway COM
pany and its fight for d new franchise.
( Speaking of the Panama canal he said
The thing is feasible. but it is suici-
dal for the government to go about
I the work the way il is going, The
I canal should be built by contract. The
! contractor might make $J0.OOOO00 on
the job but this would be a mere baga-
( telie compared with the stealing that
/ will be done If the government does
7 the work by days labor as it is start
/ ing in to do