El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-21

promises to grow very fast when the
canal is completed. 1t will certainly
need some sanitation before it can be
made a safe port for our great water
way. Just now the town sWarms with
fleas 1t has had bubOnic plague in
the past, and its buildings are such
that they would form a paradise for
the plague carrying rats.
Many 1Iummies Found.
The air is such that 1t sucks the
juices out of anything LETT out OF
doors 1t is as healthful as Egypt. 1t
viii keep a corpse or a mummy, and
Il is the dryneSS of the air that has
preserved the mummies Of Peru like
those OF Egypt There are many ruined
cities Of the indians scattered over the
desert and from some of them mum
mics have been dug which look almost
as fresh as when they were buried
They are quite as fresh as the mum
mics In the museum at Cairo Ihey
we're usually cured in sitting pos
tUre, wrapped in cloth and LED up with
string.
During a former trip to this desert
! visited some OF the ruins Of cities
that were in existence long before the
lncaS came. In the JeQuetepeque
(Hee-e-te-pe-ke valley back OF Pacas-
mayo 1 found a large mound which
was once the site of q palace or pos
SlDIy q temple devoted to the VeStal
virgins of the sun. All about me were
OF the past The remains showed that
the building was nearly square, and IL
was 800 feet wide at the base. 1t was
made of adobe and then plastered on
color.
Not far from that place up in the
andes IS CaJamarca, where Atahualpa
was imprisoned by PizarrO until he
IllIed the room which formed his cell
as mSn as he could reach, with gold,
IN exchange for his liberty. After
PIzarrO had got the gold he had the
inca chief killed. little further south
OF mere IS the town Of TrujillO, which
was founded by PiZarrO and named in
memory of his native home in Spain.
Inc town is older than Lima, and it
Ias now about $4,000 or 10000 people.
1here are great ruins nearby.
Pottery 10000 Years Old.
In this same desert is the chimcana
calIey, where short time ago T. HeW-
ut MyflnS unearthed pottery which is
supposed to have been made by a peO-
PIE VINO We're old when the pyramids
were younS- They lived FROM 1000 to
1U,OOO years ago. They had a remark
aple civilization and the pottery was
eNqulslTely shaped and of remarkable
az usllc beauty. have before me some
taken for the London News. The OBJ
5ecIS are now, I believe, in the British
museum in London.
Sand Hills That Travel.
1 lind the desert of Peru wonder
IlIIIy interesting. Parts of it are rocky, /
IKE much of the Sahara, and many
parts OF 1t have as fine sand as that
" men surrounds the pyramids on the
banks of the Nile. In some places the
SaIu gamers In drifts or great mounds, 4
anu tnese mounds are moved along by
,L9 Wlh0S- Ihe mounds are in the
SHdpe OF a crescent. They are made
DL mlillons OF millions of little grains }
p Saho not as large as q mustard seed,
y. y MN me winds roll up over the top of
~ crescent. IneSe sand mounds travel I
1IWays IN the direction of the winds, I
Y men are mere toward the north. They /
.LInD over the hills and make their I
Hay through the valleys. They Will 4
iOl STOP Tor roads or railroads and 4
.hey are the terror of the civil eugi- {
leer. Some of the railways that cross I
ne DESERT nave been swallowed uD by (
ISL. ISL aSaIn ana again, and it is iTpOs- (
'IDIe 10 Keep them back BIZ such ar I
as our snow sheds or I
eHceS. Ihey have to be shoveIed out I
VI tIe ITalnS 10 pass, and the track {
pc IeIald until they have gone on.
me Plura valley promises TO fur
lish big export of cotton IF is there
EaI grows the famous native cotton
70 Feru' cotton which brings or
cents pound more in our mar
- Jnah Inat we raise in America,
. no lhat IS shipped to the United
ualeS by the thousands of bales. The
allFe ReruVlau cotton is sometimes
aIIed vegetable wool 1t has a long
lber, and 1t is very like wool in its 4
eNture. We use it to mix with wool
or the making of hats. hosiery and
hQerWear- 1t is said to give the cloth
inner luster and to render it less
able to shrink.
Indeed, this land seems 70 he tho
ONE of the cotton plant. 1t was crow
lg here when Pizarro came. and he
ound cotton cloth in the tombs of
eople who lived long before the Incas.
ne native cotton grows on a tree
-hich viii continue to Weld for 30
ears after plSnIng. Tt is usually at J
IS best at three years, and after that {