The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10

have a heavy rainfall on the eastern
clones Of the Andes, and the cilIlaie
- from the temperate TO the tro-
nical zones We a grow coffee anu
cacao nretty well up IN the MOUNTAINS.
ara further down we have all SoriS "
.r1nieal fr1,its on the lowlandS we
have rubber, and vast tracts that VIZ
| produce sugar cane, TOBACCO anu
ton. That part of Peru eohlplaS
| more than half our territories, ana =
!. ALI virgin soil. Take the province
| ~ Nadrp de DioS, which we nave -
| comfy oDened down near BonNia II
i estimated that over ~o.ooo,oVo
mounds OF rubber have neeh tdhell
from that region, and that there are
large quantities left. The lahu> dlele
will produce uga cane, rice ec'ton
and coffee. and on the slopes OF ths
mountains they are grazing cattle anu
sheen. The country is also rlch, Ihlh-
eraIlv. and this is So Of much OF ihe
Montana. \ great deal Of the solu Oh
the Incas came from that region.
tine chief difficulty as TO the devei-
nument Of III Montana, continued
President Billinghurst, Us transports
ton. The only way to get the crops
ont is on the backs OF men or on
mules. and this makes ii impossible TO
do any farming upon g large SCAT
We expect, however, TO eNle1lu ooi
railroads that now cross the Anuts
down into the Amazon valley. lhlS
can be easily done, and we will ther
have an outlet to both The Atlanta
and the Pacific oceans. We have
=, plans for several railroads TO &c
through that country to the great TIL
butaries of the Amazon. Just at th'
+ present we have not the money e
! make the extensions, and THIS Is OI'
: reason Why l have not approved of tn
McCune concession, which provide
for the building Of q railroad TO tn
. tcayali river. [ believe, however
THAI we shall soon have railroad
reaching 10 the Amazon valley. an
that the Montana will eventually b
one of the most thickiy populate
e parts of Peru"
j. "1Nin not the Panama canal hurr
4 up this Developments"
ii cit should do so, and we hope
will. With railroads to the Amazon
= the higher-priced products Of the east
d ern slope OF the mountains may b
r brought down to the Pacific and g
Of ~northWard through the canal. Othel
re Of the products will go dow tn
is Amazon, and out to the Atlantic. v
We do not expect to receive a great benz
lit from the ana right at the star
m but we believe that it viii steadl
MS increase our trade, bringing us 1nuC
closer to your country and Europ
We It is our hope that it Will lead mar
Of of your American capitalists to con
de Down and look over the ground Wit
IS. q view to investing. AS il is no
ell some of our most valuable mines a
be owned in the United States and son
n OF the best development works of Pc
are being done by Americans. III
is 50 with GerrO de Pasco. with Nor
cocha n With other large copp
OF properties
what are You dome to prepare
ere the anal"
OF Our work so far is at its begi
ip- ming, replied the president. 81 ha
here q scheme for the Improvement
the haTbor Of Callao that will give
III the finest anchorage. for shipping
icy the west coast of South America,
pc not n OF the finest Of the wh'
AT. world. We have, as you know. il
eea opposite Callao, lying parallel with t
we coast II less than three miles av;
the high island of San Lorenzo.
eel the southern end the strip Of wa
between this island and the coast
very shallow, and we have found Il
by building Of a break-Water we {
unite the two and make an Dan
deep water perfectly shut off fr
not the sea, large enough to hold all
fleets of the world.
W are making our survey
md building this uproyemen and &c
engineers figure. it will require
We dumping of only abo1t I ooo
AT cubic yards Of rock, bic can
easily gotten from the islands ona
to mountains Of the mainland. Colo
ing Goethals has looked over the pla
IL n he says the job is an easy c
IONS There seems to be no ~engineerinp
hat ~iculties in sight. and oc~cordina
in of our survavorr - aHn
ual- ouire less than AZ 0n0 noo
w l When tina. is done raliao iii ''
and chief port of western co9,+h oe
and one of the erect cao1;.a my
ais OF the eastern Pacific. We have +
tea of anthracite coal at Chimbote WI
on We can use, and we have also fuel
in great quantities TO silpnlv