Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-10
ONLY WIRELESS PAPER.
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Dense Amazon Jungle.

Dense Amazon Jun9ie.
Newcomers to this astonishing
Amazon country are constantly araZ-
ed by the manner in which the white
man, who has set himself to tame this
wilderness and wiring fortunes out or
it. has applied the very latest devices
of civilization to uses which in an older
country are still served by machinery
not quite so up-to-date. When you
come to think of it, it is only natural
The modern developer of raw geo.
graphical material comes here with
all his work to do, and finding vir-
gin soil, promptly applies to the task
the very latest labor-saving contri-
vances-a thing he could not do at
home, where vast sums are tied up
in earlier types Of machinery.
1t is for instance, says the Manaos,
Brazil, correspondence New YORK
Times, perfectly reasonable that what
is perhaps the only newspaper with
an exclusively wireless telegraph SER
vice published elsewhere than on an
ocean liner should flourish In the midst
of a patch of civilization hedged In by
hundreds of miles Of the Amazonas
Jungle. through which the expense OF
poles and wire would be quite pro-
hibitive, the patch Of civilization be-
ing accessible otherwise only by
long voyage by river. You are, never
theless, hardly prepared for the shock
of seeing a casual copy Of the Porto
Velho Marcongram, actually publish
ed in such hole in the jungle, as II
were, and relying on wireless entirely
for the part of the news which deals
with the outside world.
The Porto Velho Larconigram Is a
four-page weekly, neatly printed on
single twice-folded sheet. 1t is the
one newspaper of Porto Velho, town
some 1000 miles from the mouth OF
the Amazon, on the Madeira river
which enters the main stem or the
greatest rivers below this port, and
Is reached by not too frequent steam
ers from Manaos.
If is from ManaOS that the news
which comes thus far by cable Is sent
by wireless to the Porto Velho news
paper. the readers of which are founu
among the 1000 inhabitants OF that
place. All of these inhabitants are
in the employ of the Madeira MamoTe
Railway company. a concern actlVelg
managed by Americans. which is en-
gagged in building for the BraZilian
government line around the falls OF
the Madeira river. This line, ooo
miles long, Brazil has undertaken 10
construct in order to fulfill treaty
obligation to Bolivia to give the re-
public an outlet to the ocean py way
Of the Amazon.
The Madeira above the falls Is navi-
gable for 1000 miles. The railway
when completed, will link this upper
stretch with the greatest channels OF
the Amazon, which makes Manaos'
though it is 1000 miles from the riV-
er's mouth, to all intents an ocean
port, since it Is the landing place or
steamships from New York and Euro
pean ports.
The railway around the falls has
been under construction some four
wears. and Is now about half complet-
ed. The town of Porto Velho was
founded by the railway company,
which EMPLOYS some 5000 men, and
which i'm this country has to import
not only all of it's engineers and other
responsible employees. but also all OF
its manual labor the Indians who in
habit the AmaZOnas jungle, through
which the work is now pushlns ts
slow and painful way. being as un-
willing as unfit to perform the TASKS
required Of n railway builder.