Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-21
PAN AMERICAN |.
RAILROAD LINE
Prasiliar Government Off
cials Considering Appli-
cation for Concessions :
of u. S. Capitalists

Rio. Janeiro. Oct. 2l.-Brazillan gov
ernment officials Will today begin con
sideration OF the application of Amer.
ican capitalists for concession TO
build railroad through Brazil as n
link in the chain of the proposed
Pan-American system which will con.
meet North and South America and
make IL possible To travel entirely by
rail from any point in the United
States or Canada through Mexico,
Central America. Panama, Columbia,
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to Argen.
tins and Chile.
Some of the leading financial inter
ests OF the United States are said TO
be back OF the Brazilian Pan-American
Transcontinental railway. The gov
ernment of Uruguay has already grant
ed a concession, aud work on that
end OF the line will be commenced
within month. The undertaking
represents the first entrance OF Amer
ican capital into South America for
the purpose of railway construction.
Heretofore the South American re.
publics have looked to England. Ger
many and France to build their rail
roads.
Colonia. across tho Rio dc la Plata
from Buenos Ayres, will be the Uru-
quay terminus of the road. From that
point the road will extend northward
TO San Luiz, in southern Brazil, dis
tance of 420 miles, traversing fer
tile prairie land suitable for wheat
raising and agriculture, but now, ow.
ing to lack OF railroad facilities. de
voted cattle and sheep raising. The
line will connect on the north with
the Brazilian railroad system, giving
1t an entrance into this city, and on
the south with the Trans-Andean line
from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso. The
eventual northern terminus of tho
projected road viii Hbe Pernambuco
where the government is now spend
ing $20,OOO.0O0 TO improve the har
Dor.
For half a century railroad mel
having been dreaming of n Pan-Amer
lean line. OF which the new Uruguay
Brazil road is to form a part, and the
dream is now beginning to appear
feasable. Many years must elapsC
before the last link in the chain o
steel connecting the two continent,
is completed, but the completion oI
the gigantic project is now but a mat
ter Of time.
When the last spike has been driv
en-, the traveller may board trair
at some point in Alaska or on Hudson
Bay, travel southwark across Canada
and the United States. p1zc outvarf
from the windows OF > ~lllmGn upor
the varied scenery OF Mexico. plur e
into the tropical forests and jungle.
Of Guatemala, Nicaragua and the 9th
or Central American states, glimpse
I'm passing, the great engineering
feat at Panama, and on into Soutl
America. Day after day the trair
Will carry him southwark from TN,
fierco heat Of the equator into another
temperate zone. Through the trea
expenses Of Columbia Ecuador, Peru
Bolivia and Brazil. with here and
there glimpses of the towering peaks
Of the Andes, the traveller will ar
rive at last at Buenos Ayres. the Par
is Of America and the fourth largest
city OF the New World. Perhaps hC
may then continue his journey
through southern Argentina and wilC
Patagonia to Punta Arenas, Chile, the
southermost town Of the world