El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-07

ern side of the mountains are said
to be enormously rich"
What can you do with the slopes
Of the mountains on the eastern side
Of the country"
THAT region is a world in itself"
replied the president of Peru. I'VE
have heavy rainfall on the eastern
slopes of the Andes and the climate
varies from the temperate to the trOp-
lcal zones We can grow coffee and
cacao pretty We'll up in the mountains
and further down we have all sorts of
tropical fruits On the lowIands we
have rubber, and vast tracts that will
produce sugar cane, tobacco and cot
ton. That part OF Peru COMPRISES
more than half our territories. and it
is all virgin soil Take the province
OF Madre de Dlos which we have re-
cenIIy opened down near Bolivia. 1t
is estimated that over 100000 pounds
OF rubber have been taken from that
region, and that there are large uuan-
titles lett The lands there will pro-
duce sugar cane, rice, cotton and COT
fee, and on the slopes Of the noun
lalns they are grazing cattle and
sheep The country is also rich, min
orally, and this IS so of much of the
Montana. A great deal of the gold of
the IncaS came from that region
THE chief difficulty as to the de-
VelOpment of the Montana" continued
president BillinghUrst lis Transports
CrODE
out is on the backs of men or on mules
and this makes it impossible to do
any farming upon a large scale. We
expect however, to extend our rail
roads that now cross the Andes down
into the Amazon valley. This can be
easily done, and we will then have an
outlet to both the Atlantic and the Pa
cific oceans.
Just at the present we have not
the money to make the extensions
and this is one reason why I have moi
approved of the McCune concession
which provided for the building of a
railroad to the Ucayah river. I be-
lieve, however, that we shall soon have
railroads reaching to the Amazon val
ley, and that the Montana will eventU
ally be one of the most thickly popu-
lated parts of Peru
will not the Panama canal hurry
up this Development
II should do so, and we hope It will
with railroads TO the Amazon. the
nlgner priced products of the eastern
slope Of the mountains may be brought
down TO the Pacific and go northvvsrd
through the canal Others of the DroJ
0ucLs VIII go down the Amazon. and
out TO the Atlantic. We do not expect
TO receive great benefit from the
canal right at the start. but we bpTiave
tnat 1t Will steadily increase orr Trade
bringing US much closer to your co1In-
- an ana EUROPE. 1t is our hope that
II VIII lead many of your American
capitalists to come down and look over
the ground with a view to INVESTING
as II IS now some Of our most vaII-
Stafas iill mes are owned in the United
states ana some of the best deveIoD-
InenC works of Peru are being done
~ americans This is so with Cerro
II LasCO, win MorOcOcha and with
oIher large copper properties
Preparing for Canal OPENING.
the canaI?" - epaIe LOT
Or work SO far is at its beginning"
EePned the president L have here a
Scneme for the Improvement of tho
narDor OF CallaO that will give us fbe
Ilnest anchorage for shipping ON rbe
west coast of South America if not one
OF the finest of the whole world. We
nave as you know, Just opposite Ca1IgO
lying parallel with the coast and less I
tnan three miles away the high island
OF san Lorenzo. At the southern end
tIe strip OF water between this island
ana the coast Is very shallow, and we
nave FOUND that by the building of a {
DreakWateT we can unite the two and
make an eXpanse Of deep water per
IecIIy shut off from the sea, large
enough to hold all the fleets of the
world.
We are making our surveys for
building this improvement and, as our
engineers figure, it will require the
of only about 100000 cubic .
yards OF rock, which can be easily got /
from the Islands and the mountains Of
the mainland. Col GOethals has looked
an easy one. There seems to be no en-
difficulties in sight, and, ac-
cording to the estimates of our sur /
eYyors, it will require less than So
100000 to build. When that is done. !
Calloa will be the chief port of west
ern South America and one of the ,
great cOaling stations of the eastern
Pacific. We have beds Of Anthracite /
coal at ChimbOte which we can use,
and we have also fuel oil in great guam /
titles, to supply any steamers burning (
petroleum"
Tries Wireless Experiment.
The conversation here turned to
wireless telegrGphy, and president Bill I
llnghurst spoke of the wonderful re-
suits that have been attained by send
ing messages from the top of Mount !
Cr1stobal a desert hill about 1000 eet /
high. that lies just back of Lima.
Said he:
We had been warned by the German
scientists and wireless experts that
there would be TO use of putting a sta
ton on that little mountain. They
said We could not send messages over
the Andes which, as you know, reach /
an altitude of over three or four miles
and lie just behind. Nevertheless our (
Peruvian advisers told me they believed
the thing could be done, and we decided
to try 1t. We put Up our steel towers,
and the results have proved that the
Germans were wrong. We are now
sending messages right over the high
Andes, down to our wireless station at
lqultos, on the Amazon river
we are sending messages to differ !