, 1913-11-12

e~nty-6ve years, which sum, with the inter
est added at five per cent, would have reach
ed the total of SAT, 500, 600.
''In the second proposal everything is in
favour of Col0mbia, without it's containing
anything which might furnish the least sus-
picious Imagination with a pretext for COM
plant based on the pride or the suscepti-
bilities Of the Colombian people.
Explaining the coaling privileges, Mr..
Du Bots said
"Out of the $40, OOO, 900, S $500, 600 is set
aside as the price of the privilege, the an
nual rental being five per cent or 500, 900.
The concession would not affect the sover-
eighty of the G ,Iombieu Government"
REFUSES To CONSIDER TERMS.
Consul Martello said that the Foreign
Mlnister had refused to consider the terms
and that the minutes of the official interview
close with this paragraph
Mr.. Du Bots Immediately thereafter in
formed the Minister that be withdrew his
proposals from discussion and notified the
Government of Colombia to consider them
AS not having been made"
LII a letter to Don Ishmael Enrique Arci-
nleQas, editor of the WueU0 Iiemp0, at Boz
gotta, dated March 6, Mr.. Du Bots said;-
In a further interview with Minister Urru-
tia l asked him ID an entirely informal
mHuner whether if the United States offered
$25,OOO,00O its good offices, arbitration and
preferential right. without asking Colombia
for privileges or options of any kind, the
Colombian Government would accept. The
Minister of Foreign Affairs promptly and
firmly answered "No," but gave me to under
stand clearly and plainly that Colombia de-
sired either the arbitration of the whole
Panama question or a direct payment by
&ha ~ 1ok~. - ~ 49,
moral, material and economic losses suffered
by her through the secession of Panama"
Consul Martello, after he had given the
text of the proposals to the Herald said
81 do not think the States Department. will
stop there. 1t is generally believed that the
State Department will exhaust every means
at its command to prevent the construction
of the canal by another Government or the
representative firms of any other Power"
BEYOND PRELIMINARY STAGES.
According to the reports brought from the
west coast of South America and corrobora-
ted by Mr.. Klepetko, the project for the con-
strucsion of the canal has passed the preli-
minary stages. An arrangement is said to
have been reached between Great Britain
and Colombia whereby the British are to
furnish the money for the canal work, and
have perpetual rights of free navigation in
return, together with other privileges.
The plans for the canal on a sea level basis
have been drawn by a noted Chilian engineer,
and Consul Martello declares MI. Bunau-
Varilla has gone south for che purpose of
inspecting the plans and passing upon the
stlmate OF work to be done.
The proposed canal will start at the Gulf
OF DariOn, thence into the Gulf of UrAbia,
thence through the mouth of the Atrato
River, which is very deep and about 1000
feet wide on the average, having $50 tribu-
taries to a point where it turns back into the
mountains, where it finds it's source. Be-
tween this point aud the head waters of the
San Juan River is a portage of about Eve
miles wide. This portage ia broken country,
but it is said that it can be turned into an
artificial waterway without trouble. The
San Juan River is both wide and deep, being
a tide water stream flowing into Boca de San
Juan on the Pacific side.
Th canal when completed would be con-
siderably more than three hundred miles
long, and would have Buenaventura as it's
Pacific outlet port. 1t is said that Indians
and hunters frequently have made the trip
from ocean to ocean by this means, carrying
their canoes across the portage without tron-
BILE. -Bdr6Gdos advocate, Dot. 21st.