El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-07

I ish body and six yellow bands around its
| abdomen It carries kind Of vacilH that
/ forms worms in your blood. They make
your legs swell and sometimes cause death.
Now Has Good Water.
! DR.. Perry says the only way that yellow
! fever can be permanently wiped out Of
Guayaquil is by cutting down the vegetation,
( cleaning up the garbage, covering the rain
: barrels, putting oil upon the bitches and
/ charging the water supply. The city now
/ has good water, but the volume is not suf-
( ficient, and the water is allowed to be
Z drawn only a certain part Of each day. For
TINS reason many families have storage
tanks, which they fill while the water is
running. The tanks are often uncovered,
! and are gerat mosquito breeders Moreover,
much Of the water is kept in open barrels,
and the garbage is left in uncovered cans
or in open boxes until taken away. Later
it is loaded upon q street car made for the
purpose, and thus carried out to the crema-
tory or incinerator. The covering Of the
garbage cans would take away great deal
OF the rat food, and the elimination Of the
rain barrels and tanks viii do much to wipe
out the mosquitoes
first visited GuayaquH IS years ago It
was then town of 20, 600 inha bitants. It
has now from 1900 to 100, 900. and has
greatly improved. The streets have been
widened and many Of the new buildings
are fine They are Of two stories, covered
with stucco and painted all the colOrs Of
the rainbow Many Of them have balconies
winch reach out over the street, and not
few have galleries along, the second story.
The town has large stores filled with fine
goods, and great warehouses containing bags
Of cacao, coffee and sugar awaiting ship
ment. 1t has an electric street car line
and electric lights, both Of which have been
introduced since I was there. 1t has a
theater and several moving picture shows
and altogether it is becoming quite mod
ernized and uptodate.
Is Building More Railroads.
Guayaqutl has several large banks that
pay big dividends, and sugar mills rice
factories and coffee huIlers 1t has cables
which connect it will all parts of the world.
and system of telephones, with long dis
lance connections to Quito, which is situated
in the Andes about 300 miles away The
railroad to Quito belongs to Americans and
built by them. but Ecuador will soon
have other railroads, built by French, Eng
nsh ana the natives One road is planned
to connect GuayaQuil with the oil fields
at st. Helena, and another is projected that
is to go from the port Of Bahai de Cara
The city has also a network Of water
transportation. The Guayas river system Is
those on the Ohio or Mississippi and +bav
can travel as far as $50 miles inland The,
90 to the villages and plantations, and bring
out cacao' ivory nuts sugar, coffee and
rubber. Cacao and ivory nuts are the chief
exports The country furnishes about half
of the chocolate beans consumed nv tbe
world, and the. buttons from its ivory mt
uphold the pantaloons of the nations 7 am
told that nine-tenths of all the foreign com
merce Of Ecuador passes through Guava-
quill
At present most Of the exports Of Ecuador
come from the lowlands They consist of
troplcal products, but there are great pas
ture nelds in the Andes and on the stones
toward the Amazon are other vast tracts
that are fitted for coffee sugar cane and
cacao. Just now a road is being built 10
connect the town Of Ambato. which lies on
the plateau, with the Curaray river
This new road will run for abou+ ION
miles through the Ambato river valley and
VIII then be Joined to one of the navigable
lrlDutarles OF the Amazon system 1t will
open up a rich mining country, and farm
ing region SO rich that it is said that it will
support millions of people. The streams Of
the country are those which gave much of
the gold OF the Incas; and I am told that