The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-31

SndWl and nat in house and ONT and
IN hlrlnS a servant it is difficult to
peIsuaoe ner 10 remove these gar
while at her work.
Inc indian men and boys wear pom !
chos and hats, with coarse suits of |
ciothes under them that are Of the
same size for children and |
Ihey have sandals, or go b%arefooted. |
Inc streets swarm with children.
baoles are plentiful and nearly every
woman and girl has a child tied to her
back. Sometimes the baby is on the
outside Of a burden, and it bobs I'D
ana down as the mother carries the
neaVy. lOad over the road She bends
half double as she goes on q dog-trot.
and covers much ground,
very few Of the women are beauti-
iul, and they all look dirty and rather
repulsive. They start CARRYING loads
While they are children, and ! see
girls only as tall as my waist with
babies strapped to their backs. The
people are very strong and the men
can carry enormous weights up hill
and down. Their chief strength is
in their backs and their loins. They
are weak as to their arms; me have
to get under a OF in order to carry
it. | saw eight of them trying to move
a piano. They would not raise it
with their hands, but tied ropes to
the legs and then pulled On the ropes
over their shoulders until they were
able TO lift the piano to their backs.
After that they trotted on up the hill.
Cerro de Pasco has a plaza, about
which the chief buildings face. There
is a church at one side. and as I went
through / saw here $50 llamas lying
down on the stones and resting. Each
beast had a package of ore strapped
to his back; they had probably come
in from the mines and were IN their
way to the smelter. They will carry
merchandise to the homes of their
owners. AS l looked, some of the
llamas got up. They rest very much
like camels, putting their knees under
them and sitting fiat on their bellies.
The most of the beasts were chewing
their cuds, and I could see their jaws
moving back and forth, showing the
teeth. Some Of the llamas were as
White as snow, others were brown
white and yellow, being spotted like
a calico pony. The animals look
somewhat like an ostrich. They are
as observing as a fox terrier and turf
their heads this way n that fol
every new thing in sight. Their WOO
looks like that of the AngOra goat
but it is coarser. 1t is used chief!
l Dy tIS udLl GSs IL . hOt SAPoA w..
! Taking ponies in company with MI
J.. r. Glidden, the assistant superin
ttendent Of the Cerro de Pasco mines
I rode through the city, visiting tn
> outskirts and some of the nativ
mines. Cerro de Pasco is situate
= on a great she'll of rock from be
meath which several hundred million
Of dollars worth Of silver and vas
fortunes in copper have been take:
! and from where they are taking mil
lions more now. The streets and bac
yards are ~honeycombed with min
holes, many Of which belong to tn
n natives. The Americans have bougF
what they could, but some Of the min
ers would not sell. They keep Q
n b%urrowing away, taking out the or
by old-fashioned methods and carry
d ing it to the surface in rawhide sack
laced together with thongs. Ther
v are mines of this kind in the mid'
h Of the houses, with people living $
# close tina a baby crawling out {
d doors might fall into a mire and sta
there until one of the Indians brougi
n m a load. Here and there are tt
remains of the great mines OF TT
past. There have been frequent cav
t. ms. and if the buildings had an.
IS thing like the weight Of our mouse
t is probable that the whole TOW
would drop down into the mining e:
u. cavatiOns below.
IS Today the prosperity of Cerro
ID Pasco, and, indeed, of this who
mining region, is dependent upt
American capital. The Americans ha'
I'd already paid out millions, and tn
he are now spending thousands OF de
r lars a month for wages and naIi
ir supplies. They are employing Gig
or ten thousand people; and n mon
Is they spend goes from here out 70 I
,h villages of the high Ande n do'
into the Chaueho Mayo valley as W.
of as to Oroya, which is situated sevent
It five miles from here at the otnef : Z
freight supplied by these mines
the chief support of the Central ra
m. way, which comes over the mounts
ne to Oroyo; and in fact the mines "a
peru. Much of the millions OF I
original purchase vent to Lima, a
,lo the present outlay affects many pt