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New Orleans Rice Market

New Orleans, July 11.-There was
good demand for rough Honduras to-
day and fair demand for Japan Clean
rice steady. Quotations: Rough Hon
duras, 2.50@4.50c Japan, 2@3.25c;
clean Honduras Az @5Mc; Japan, az
M3Ssc; receipts, rough, 3152; clean
s444 millers. 1852; sales, clean Japan
1900.
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New Orleans Cotton Futures
New Orleans. July 1l.-spot cotton quiets

New Orleans. July 11.-Spot cotton quiets
1-16c down Middling, 10 7-16c.
Sales of spot, 1o5 bales To arrive, 44k
Lord ordinary, 1-16c nominal Ordinary.
sac nominal. Good ordinary, 111ac. Strict
good ordinary, 11%c. Low middling, 12cs
strict low mddling, PIG Middling,
IL 7-l6c Strict middling. 12Ac. Good
middling. II 15-16c. Strict good middling,
1Slsc. Middling fair. IS 9-16c nominal.
Mlddling fair to fair. 13 15-l6c nominal.
Fair. IA 5-16c nominal. Receipts, 429.
Stock 36 1874
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Coffee Market

New York, July 11.-Coffee was less ac-
tive today with prices higher on covering
or fresh buying based on a feeling that
the market was entitled to some rally
after the sensational break of the last
week or on bullsh crop accounts from
Erazll. The opening was steady at un-
charged plices to an advance of s points
on European buying and local trade sup
port. After selling about s to II points
net higher. prices broke 10 points owing
to disappointing European cables and
realizing by recent buyers for turn, but
rallied later o nreports that estimates
of tile Santos crop were being reduced
and closed steady Closing bids: July,
S5cc; September. S.75c; October, 5000: De-
cember, s.95c; January, S.99c; March, 911c;
May. DISC.
Spot coffee steady: Rio rs. 9isn1e1sc
nominal Hacre, 4 franc higher. Ham
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st. Louis Grain

st. Louis. July 11.-cash wheat No.
| 2 red, soc; No. 2 hard, 81 q 92c; corn.
No. 2. 64c; No. white, 65 "a q Sec; oats.
No 2, 39Rc; No. white, 42c; close,
wheat July, S4A @S43sc; September,
2'Nc; corn, July to September, Co.'s c !;
oats, July to September, 3Ss4e.
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burg. al pfennig higher. Rio $50 reis
lower at 5sx10o Santos As $50 higher at
5sx1O0 Brazilian port receipts 2o'OOo
against $4,000 last year. Jundiahy re-
ceipts, % 600 against 2l00o last year. To-
days Santos cables reported market loo
reis lower at 5sx0O0; Sac Paulo receipts
19 900 against 22,000 yesterday
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Imports of Merchandise

New York. july 1i.--Imports OF mer-
chandise and dry goods at the port OF
New York at thelweek ending July were
valued al $13,505, ST.
Imports Of specie for the port of New
York for the week ending TODAY were
S6S.1f7 silver and ssS1.11s gold Exports
OF specie from the port of New York for
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Too Jealous

From the st. Louis Republic
Doetor-"You take yourself too SER
ously in other words. perhaps YOU are
too earnest about your work Am
right"
Patient Well. | dunno sir: I am
sure l hnd great deal OF pleasure in
How are you employed. may | ask -
I'm drummer for a musical comedv
show
'.Ah, l knew / could not be FOR pron
in my diagnosis."
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Creamery Products

COUNTY butter, 2O92oc: fresh creamery
butter, 32lzc; cheese, lie; imported Swiss
cheese, sic; German brick cheese. zoe:
li:lburger cheese. 19c: imported roouefert
SIC; Neufchatel cheese. per dozen. sc.
Pimento cheese. Soc; process butter. 2Oc:
daisy cheese. 16hc per pound.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Pig Iron
Local Cotton
Meat

Lard, 1880; compound 10Ac: dry salt
short ribs, s14.05 bellies, s15.lo: ham
butts. l5.50c; Boston butts. Ice; pork
lo.ns, lie; spare ribs. 15c; breakfa at
bacon. 27u2sc: smoked bacon, lie; regular
ham, 20l4c; skinned ham, 2lhc.
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Conference at RusseIlville

T,ussellville, July Especial )-The
Florence district conference convened in
this city yesterday evening at o'clock.
The district COMPOSING the Florence con-
ference is very large and Russellville has
as her guests more than 100 delegates
who are representing the various stations
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French Exchange

Paris. July 11.-Three per cent rentes
IS francs, 921a centimes for the account
exchange on London, a5 francs. % cen.
times for checks. Private rate OF dis.
count. 3sz per cent.
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Dry Goods

New York, July 11.-Cotton goods lines
hold steady with trade of moderate pro-
portions.
All wool lines are quiet Jobbers report
good demand for spot merchandise of a
staple character. Yarns rule steady but
quiet.
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weekly interior cotton Towns
New York, July 11--Albany. Stock, 707
Athens: Receipts i5 shipments, 800;
stock, 2377.
Atlanta Receipts, 1877; shipments, s7t;
stock 1866.
Brennan: Receipts, 40; shipments, 1sS;
stock, 3T2.
Charlotte; Steady; middling. 12Ac re-
ceipts, 121: shipments, 121.
Columbia Receipts, 22s2; shipments, 1147,
stock, 1890.
Columbus, Ga: Dull; middling, 11Hc;
receipts. 25; shipments, $780, sales, $50
stock, S746.
22o. 'N
Dallas: Stock. 1889.
Eufaula: Receipts, /; shipments, 4S5
stock, lag
Greenville: Stock. 22s4
Greenwood. S. c.: Receipts, 317: shin.
ments, 317; stock, 1856.
Helena; Shipments. 80; stock, 1874
Little Rock: Steady; midding, 1ac; re.
ceipts, is: shipments 2o27; stock, 5144
Macon: Receipts, 6; shipments, 4s4
stock, 1850.
Meridian: Receipts, 144; shipments, s97
stock, 422.
Nashville: Quiet; mlddling, 12Ne.
Newberry: Receipts, 254; shipments
257.
Raleigh: Receipts, II; shipments, so
stock, 80
Rome: Receipts, 50; shipments, 800
stock, 43s1
Selma; Receipts, 4p7; shipments, All
| stock, III.
| Shreveport; Receipts. 81; shipments so
| stock. 329l.
| Vicksburg: Stock, IT'S.
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Metal Market

New York. July 11.-Copper unset
tied, staraRrd spot. $3.50 bid; July
to August including September. s13. SO
@14 electrolytic, s14.25@ 1850; lake,
s14.5oMll.f5: casting, SLABS; tin firm;
spot, 5000 a IL: July. s40@4030; Au-
gust. Sfo.35de 40.62; September $4O.35
a 4o.6s lead quiet. s4.3oG4.40; spelter
quiet. s5.2Tms.55; antimony nominal
Cookson, ss.55a SOS; iron quiet. un-
changed.
London markets closed: Copper
quiet I; futures fe2 1Ss spot; futures,
f52 ia Cd; tin firm. spot, f1s5; flu
lures, Kiss 15s: spelter f20 los; lead
f1e i0s; iron, Cleveland warrants. 55s
7iad,
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st. Louis Produce

St Louis, July 11-Flour easy; re-
ceipts, flour 6o0o wheat 145,00O, corn
2So00 oats $4,000; shipments, flour
1000, wheat $1,000, corn 10000, oats
2S, 900.
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German Fxchanpe

Berlin. July Il--ENchanse on London,
20 marks, ieia pfennigs for checks. money,
sGsla per cent. Private rate of discount,
ass per cent.
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Grain Receipts and Shipments

Kansas City. July 11.-R sceipts.
wheat $4,000, corn 11,000, oats 5000;
shipments, wheat 10000, corn $4,000,
oats 5000.
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Bullion Taken In

London, July li.-Bullion amounting to
eln,OO0 was taken into the Bank of Eng
land on balance today
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Coffee and Sugar

Coffee Arbuckles. s22. ~ per 100 POUNDS:
Luzanne 25c per pound. Sugar, standard
granuated, &c per pound.
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A Nice Distinction

From Judge.
Lawyer-"Do you mean to tell me the
plaintiff was drunk? 2?
Witness-"Well no: but you couldn't
call him ostentatiousiy sober"
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average

1h@1is lbs. average 25c; rryers
less. than l lb. and under IL pounds aver
age, 20c ducks, 14c pound: guineas.
soc: roosters. 30c; geese 4oq5Oc;
live turkeys, 1S@20c; fresh eggs. case can
died, 17@1Sc; extra graded canded eggs.
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Weekly Interior Cotton Towns

the week ending today were ssSO,6of silver
and $5,O57,572 gold.
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LOCAL SECURITIES

TotaI Sales for the day, $1,000 shares
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Poultry and Eggs

Hens, per pound, 1aa15c; Try
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.AcOBAMkA INDIAN
WOMAN AND CHILD

effect of the cultivated rubber of the
Malay straits which is felt in Madre de
Dios just as much as on tine kongo and
on the Amazon. Some OF the rubber COM
panies have suspended their operations
temporarily. The eXpsoita ton of the rub
Der in connection with the development
OF supposed placer gold fields the
means of getting roads into the district.
When the concessions We're given, the
Peruvian government required the COM
panieS to open up trails and build wagon
roads, engaging TO cooperate on its own
part. The companies complained that the
government did not live up to it's share of
the contract and that the whole burden
OF building and maintaining the roads
was thrown on them. Now that they are
withdrawing these routes it Will compel the
attention of the government in pursuance
of its general policy of developing ana
controlling the district. 1t cannot afford
TO allow the means of communication to
he abandoned. 1t is. in fact. pledged TO
open additional routes and maintain
them.
The Peruvian government has not Yet
followed the example of Brazil and re-
duced the export duty on rubber, as one
means of meeting the competition of the
Malay straits plantations. but ii doubtless
VIII take similar measures. While the
rubber production is small as compared
with that Of Brazil. ii is still an mpor-
tant element in the national resources. 1t
is not felt among those who are most fa-
riiiar with the natural rubber OF the in
terror river regions of South America
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The face is a striking one. Clean
shaver, lined. at times austere, it more
nearly resembles the portraits of states
men OF an earlier period than it does the
viyacious countenances of present-day
congressman upon whom il looks from
that stately daiS
Like boys in school. the members sit in
those new benches that curve their length
across the chamber; but there is nothing
Of the schopmaster in the attitude OF the
Speaker. Ills long career i'll affairs of
state has set it's mark upon him. He
Is the arbiter. the judge, rather than the
disciplinarian. Sehoolmastering he left
behind him these many years ago.
While Champ Clark, Speaker OF the
House. is solemn of nlien. he is not so
solemn of language. As one two other
famous Speakers before him have done.
he often interjects into the debate. and
from the chair, a homely phrased With
ciSm that tends TO anoint the troubled
waters and set the House again i'll good
hUmor. or else ilIuminates and makes
clear the actual issue. His wit is philo-
sophical and kindly. not with the sting
that sometimes characterized the remarks
OF the brilliant Speaker Reed, but fully as
apt.
Then. too. on occasion he takes the
floor. is his privilege, and speaks at
length oit some topic near To his heart.
For example. he was heard several times
III the closing days of making the Under
wood tariff bill
In all such speeches the historical learn
ing Of the Speaker is made apparent.
There IS no more devoted student OF
American history in Congress today. No
notable bit of pending legislation is dis
cESSed by him without reference to Il
parallel in the past, or 10 earlier ex-
pressed tendencies either toward or
against measure of that sort
His mind reyels, however, in the Curl
oslt!es of American history. He has
collected a wonderfully long list of
these. For example, he has the facts
regarding The far-reaching effect the
gain or loss of single vote has had
on many epoch making Incidents in
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We're Coming to 1t.

MFRS. O. II. r. BELMONT, fresh from
AvA her long European summer, criti
cised, at the suffrage iunchrooms in New
York. American life
1.-The customs people are lacking in po-
lteness." she said. and the servant que5-
ton Is very difficult here.
Il heard a story yesterday that hardly
exaggerates the difficulties of the servant
question.
why did you leave your last place.!
lady asked an applicant for the post
OF parlormaid
"'Shure. num- the applicant replied.
L left because they insisted me usin'
the old fashioned biplane, with niver
chance at the smart new French mono
plane that's all the so now.
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fairly independent of the central author
ity at Lima Ii hardly could be other
wise when the quickest means OF COM
was to go to New York Dy
way of Panama and thence take a
steamer to Para, at the mouth of the
Amazon. and proceed 300 miles up the
river to Iauitos The lack OF commun-
ication and of centralized control was
one cause of Peru's inability to prevent
the atrocities of a British rubber com
pany on the Indians of the Putumayo.
:;
TIE central route to the UcayaH river
and thence along its course to the Anna
Zon was surveyed forty years ago. ana
more or less ventureSome trips were
made By the trails TO the aff1ueEtS oil
the Icayali, whence by canoe ana small
steamers IquitoS was reached. ColoHiZa-
ton was attempted in the Cordilleras as
far back as the times of the Catholle
missiona ries Within the present gen
era ton colonies were actually establish
ed in the Chanchamayo district, anu
today sugar coffee and cocoa pianta-
tons are found there Occaslonaily
complaint is made of maraudinS attacks
by the Indians. but these are not IRE
auent What the region wants is ran
way communication.
The cerro de PaSco a Few years aSt
made preliminary surveys toy faiiWaE
to Port Werthemann, on the cayali. Dut
it was not understood thai tue company
cared TO make railway Investment VI
from Sl1.oou, coo to S1p1op,oDo IN order !.
get its copper out through the mouth VI
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the Speaker on the matter of the caucus
and the rules OF the House They arr
subjects of intense interest to him right
now. Republicans and progressves are
assailins the democracy for having
framed the tariff and currency bills in
secret caucus and jamning them
through" the House without full oppor-
tunity for debate. Speaker Clark twice
has taken the floor to discuss the sub
iect and to point out the errors into
which he asserts the opponents of the
party in power have fallen
Thus. September ~. he declared from
the floor. as recorded in the Congress
5. onal Record:
Il will tell you the whole truth ahou.
this caucus matter and this holy protesta-
ton that you folks are making. The
people of the United States want to know
what Congress does. Ihey are much
more interested in results than in the
methods by which those results are
worked out applause on the democratic
side.) They want results. They are going
10 get them. and we are responsible for
them. Judge tree by its fruits is a
safe rule We are willing to be so
judged. We belong to the Bacon an
school and believe in the philosophy of
fruits ] used to twit the gentleman
from New York (Mr. Payne) with the
fact that if he had let me and the rest
of the democratic conferees on the
Pavne-Aldrich bill sit in conference and
help fix that bill il would have been :
great deal better bill than it was, ard
/ believe SO now. (Appiaase on the
democratic side) But | was playing poll
ties then daughterD An open confes-
sion is good for the soul. You are play
ing politics now. applause on the demo-
cratic side.)'
A bold statement.
1T is the exact truth. said the Spea <
e. to the interviewer wnen he was asked
about this.
What is caucus?' he went on 1T
is merely conference of those men who
think alike in the main. but who differ
in minor details. with the purpose of
bringing them together that they may
act as a unit in securing the larger pur-
pose on which al are intent. 1t doesn't
make "A particle of difference whether
YOU call it a caucus or a conference.
And. in general results, it dosen't make
any difference whether you hold one big
caucus or a lot Of little ones. Just as
| told the House, a lot OF little caucuses
would result in the whole thing being
cut and dried before 1t came into the
House.
What is the difference between the
caucus as conducted by the democrats
and the caucus that was conducted by
the republicans in the seventies that
gave rise to the democratic attacks OH
king caucus?
."There is no difference in principle.
Roth are based on the idea of letting the
majority in power carry out the wishes
of the majority of the people of the
country as expressed at the polls.
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Men brought together in body Ike
the House of Representatives. must nave
some means of combining their eHorts
in order to accomplish anything Inc
House cannot be run like a town meeting.
The party that has q majority must talk
things out in advance and come 10 an
agreement or it can't do anything:
Il belonged to a debating society once
at Kentucky University. The name OF
the society was the 'I.oquacS. and 1T was
properly named. 1t had two rules, and
one OF them Was that every man WAS
to speak as long as he pleased. ihat
is the idea our critics have as TO the
manner in which we should do business.
The caucus is inevitable. ! don't care
whether it is secret or not, but 90
maintain, as | did III our caucus, that
every man should have the right 10 pre-
sent his amendments and talk them out
there and Il we haven't time To do IL
all in one night. adjourn 10 the next anu
keep Oh until we are agreed
Now. there is this matter OF the
tariff There are not any two men IN
the country who think alike in all things
on the tariff. unless they be two absolute
free. traders; and since we must have
revenue for the nation We can't have
absolute free trade. we must get q
basis of agreement
..W hat is the use of going into the
House and wrangling and jangling for
DAYS over whether the duty on some
particular thing shall be ID per cent or
~ ner cent? No large principle IS in
VOWED But to hear some of them talk
Won would think the whole fate of the
nation rested on that , per cent diner
ence.
..There is not man i'll the House who
has been gouged out of any of his rights
and privileges in the construction OF the
Underwood tariff bill. Every man has
had = chance to offer any amendment
that he pleased and TO make speech
about il and there the thing stopped.
They didn't have votes enough III iney
don't like it. their remedy lies IN getting
tbe votes at the next election
..In this business of legislation you must
have party agreements and you must
have rules 4 check must be put some
where on debate We have hitd IN the
recent past much talk about the rules
and about the despouc power OF the
Sneaker Personally. / never have SUI
fered from the application OF sucn pow,
err When | first came here Speaker Reeu
was particularly kind to me; SO was
Sneaker Henderson, so WAS Uncie joe
But it was maintained. unoer tne -
tenn then in vogue, that an iidisiuuai
member, if the Speaker was opposed 70 d
bill he. had, had no chance TO get ms Dill
called UP. -,
For generations the plan or cali-
ing the list of committees IN the mouse
and permitting member. as llat hse
was called. to call up his bill was IN
practice. The republicans permitted this
practice to fall into disuse.
Then. in the Sixtieth Congress there
Continued on Seventh Page1
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tireut. l4CE--SianUllS Do4flt4d42 1+ssp"'N"@
have been sensbly advanced toward al
iustincnt durine tho last two years Each
country wants to know just what MS
limits are and to have them settled
50 that plans of territorial Development
may 20 forward.
Conservative German rnapmakers not
long ago were marking more OF the IN
terror of South America as unknown
and unexplored" than Of Africa. Gradual
In the unknown area has been reduced
until now there are only small see
tons that are entirely une&piored- Inc
earlier expeditions into these regions We're
usually scientific. From time 10 time
scientists would disappear for years ana
then reappear with valuable ethnic data
concerning the primitive races as they
exist today The lure Of the wilderness
would again draw them away from CIV
iizatiou and that would oe the Iass
heard OF them Experienced explorers OF
a more practical turn sent oHt by private
eonlpanies for the exploitation OF run
her and mines would also occasionally
disappear
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In Tie FOREST RECON Or TIE ANDES

that plantation rubber in the end will
drive out the natural rubber" Its SUI
perior quality is expected ultimately To
more than equaIize the competition from
the plantation rubber.
The Peruvian Corpora ton. which con
trolls and operates the railways of Peru,
has made an engineering reconnaissance
for a railway from "a point the line be
tween Cuzco and Lake Titicaca to con
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SPEAKER CLARK DISCUSSES THE {

ESERNE the Speak
or of the House of
r c pr e S entativeS
presiding over the
deliberations oil tina :
body.
+ him. white hair
atop d ma sSlve
head, a grave face
with a touch OF
l4incolnlike melan-
choly in the eyes.
an air OF thought
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meet with the headwaters of river navi-
CATION in til" Madre Ge dos district,
but as a practical project this is looked
on rs something for the rather distant
future. For some years to come access
to the region will be by the pre- sent
means Of communication
1t is generally assumed that the OBJ
ject Of all the proposed transandine
railway lines in Peru is to lind a way to
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Speaker Clark James *. Polk. who
presided over the twenty-fourth and
twenty-tifth Congresses; Jonathan Day
ton of New Jersey-a quaint old pic
ture-who was Speaker OF the fourth
and ffth Congresses; Linn Boyd of
Kentucky, who was Speaker during the
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SPEAKER CEAMP CLARK.

Pierce administration; James l.. Orr
of South Carolina, the last Speaker
from the south before the civil war,
and other now almost forgotten char
acters are in the list.
Now. if you want to get an instant and
ready response 10 questions, talk with
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Canal

the Amazon notwithstanding the neces-
sarily high freight rates in the short haHt
of some aoa miles over the crest OF tho
ANDES and down 10 Callao.
Another railway project through tho
central route seemed 10 be mitch moro
promising II contemplated line OK
about 500 miles. which would reach the
head waters Of river navigation. \ very
liberal concession with q heavy govern
ment subsidy was given the American
capitalists who We're AZ the hack IF this
project which was estimated To cost
Sic.Np.ooe Preliminary surN eNs wers
made and the money MAS raised IN New
York with which TO begin construction.
In the meantime the original concession
had been transferred to new syndicate.
SO far. however, tho Peruvian govern
ment has failed TO approve the transfer
and the whole Gcayah protest for tie
time being is in allegiance.
Ns.fc there seems no prospect or es-
tahliShins through railway ard rive
communication b. the central voutc -
lquitos - IN early date. the HeruNfat
government has managed Ky means -
wireless tetessapay - nit laultos n
touch with Lima. ON tile summit 80
San Cristobal. tho mountain spur witch
lies just outside Lima. is steel tower
about 80 fec high. The peak at Sau
Cristobal is some 2aA feet above So,
level From this tower messages a"e
transmitted 10 another tower 1T lQuttos,
about t25 miles IN n direct AIR line Tie
German company which undertook the
contract was not able to guarantee tE3t
no intermediate stations would he uVceS-
sary. but this has proved 10 be tine case
and there are 40 intervening toWer~.
These wireless messages are transmit
ted across Andnc ranges lf,en - i6.Nl
feet high The system Is controlled By
the department OF public works and tho
government has fixed Very moderate
charges.