The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
"Mr. Proano's smelter.

%Mr. ProanO's smelter.
You will note Cerro de PaSco is the
same height as the stone house on the
summit of Pixies Peak in Colorado.
There are garden products in num-
Der. Sugar cane, plant called guar
dianti, from which guardiente, a liquor
sold to the poorer classes is made;
grapes, and cotton are grown between
Callao and Chosica, the latter point
thirty-One miles distant on the line of
the Peruvian Central railway. Fifteen
miles from Chosica is San Bartelomi.
At this point paltas, oranges, nespices,
lines, watermelons and like products
are grown. Between there and Tam
baroque corn and hay are grown and
goats and sheep are raised in small
herds. You find sugar cane and guar
diant grown in large quantities, but
other products are only grown for
home consumption. In the attitudes
there are a few potatoes, and here and
there small herds of sheep, but of no
great value.
The Mineral Belt.
1T is in this section where the great
mineral wealth of Peru is found The
mountains are well filled with silver.
copper and lead, but the locations not
already taken up lie from ten to 100
miles from the railways. The only
means of transportation is by llamas
and burros, which is very slow and ex-
pensive
There are very few roads in Peru,
and these are only horse trails. Bug
gies and wagons are never used in the
mountains. The only one 1 know of
is the one owned and used by the Cerro
de Pasco Mining company at Cerro de
Pasco. There is no question about. the
mineral richness of Peru. The whole
question is how to get at 1t. 1t is ire
mendously expensive to build rail-
ways. Labor is scarce and poor, costly
and inexperienced. Only those born
and raised in the attitudes can work at
hard labor there. The language,
monotony and solitude do not assist in
making conditions pleasant, to say
nothing of the poor food encountered
in the districts away from the rail-
ways.
1.-The climate in this section is not
bad. It is preferable to that on the
western slope, but at first, unless
warmly clad, one is chilly or cold much
of the time. A person with heart trou-
BILE or otherwise unsound should neeer
consider going to those attitudes. 1t
would mean sorrow and remorse, at
least.
NOl w FiClus
Peru is not a country for men seek
ing employment. IT is a good country
for capitalists, but any investment
should be well and thoroughly studied
before work is begun.
On the Eastern Slope.
IF the railway which Mr.. McCune
now contemplates building into the
Ucayali, is constructed it will open I'D
a great agricultural district, as we'll as
timber land, and navigation down the
Amazon to the Atlantic. The project
means much for Peru and there can be
no question as to the investment pc
ing a good one.
In the country referred to as the
eastern slope are found conditions most
favorable. The climate encountered at
the various attitudes less than 10000
feet fills each and every persons
ideas of perfection and the grandeur of
the scenery is seldom, If indeed ever,
surpassed. In a distance of 100 miles
three and a half days on horseback
you can pass from a snow bank in
July down through the various cli-
mates, where products of each are
grown and fully matured. Nature has
done its part well, and people alone are
lacking to make a great country out
it eastern Peru.
1.-THE soil is very rich. Fish and
game in abundance are found in this
section, below an altitude of 5000 feet.
The country is healthy, the only sick
ness ever heard of being malarial fever
During the months of December,
January, February and March rain
falls on the eastern slope. In the al