The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-28

OF 1t IS consumed in the wooden mills
mere, Dut the majority of the
is sent abroad. Nearly all of the vi
cuna and alpaca wool passes through
Arequipa.
Returning to the city itself. Are
qulpa is quite a manufacturing center.
II makes harness and saddlery, boots
ana o and it mas large cotton
mills. 1t has also the railroad shons
OF the Southern railroad Of Peru.
Whlch makes this place it's headuuar-
ters. There are about 500 men en-
ployed there; they are now making
their own passenger and freight cars.
as wen as all the repairs for the
rolling stock.
me town also manufactures cho-
colate. 1t has a flour mill and ii does
a great deal OF exporting and i'm
porting, being the center of trade. for
southern Peru and also for a great
part Of Bolivia. The Southern rail-
way is the chief gateway to La Paz,
! and it will always compete with the
other roads that go to and from 30
livia and the seaceast. 1t is on this
account that Arequipa will probably
be improved by the Panama canal.
The city is 100 miles from M%ollendo.
the chief port Of the south for this
part of the world. The landing is
pun, hO"SSeI Inc SniDS nave TO
anchor far out from the shore and
the swell is worse than that Of Jaffa,
which tossed Jonah'S ship so that the
sailors threw him out 20 the whale
The MollendO landing is often so
rough that passengers have to be
, taken up by steam cranes from the
boats hat bring them to the port
from the steamer and goods nave to
be put on and off of the launches by
cranes. The ocean was tanner than
uSual When | came into port; but my
boat went up and down eight or ten
feet, and | had to make a flying leap,
when it was on the up grade. to get
to the steps that ED to the custom
house.
When I visited Arequipa in 1898 it
was lighted by coal oil. and l dc not
remember that it had a car line. 1t
I has now ar electric light plant from
turbines run by water power and also
|. an excellent system of tramWayS
| which it is extending out into the
country. 1t is we'll equipped as tc
telephones, both local and long dis.
: tance, and the telephone companies
: will accept 1ong-distance messages a
> telegraph rates. which are only II
I cents for ten words. For 80 cent
. you may talk for five minutes between
Areauipa and Mollendo, a distance 0
more thar 100 miles. I venture thu
rate is less than one-half that of tn
y United States.
| With the completion of the cana
Arequipa will become a tourist re
sort. 1t is a place for breaking tn
, journey on the long ride up the Ande
mountains from the ocean to LAX,
a Titicaca and Cuzco, and it ought t,
- have good hotels. The best of thos
it has now is kept by an Italian nam
= ed MOrOSini, who quarters his CUES
on one side Of the plaza and feed
= them on the other side in a long, low
caye-like vault, which is known a
,f the comedor, or dining room. Tn
food is good and the bedrooms ar
= large, but there are no modern i'm
~ provements and the sanitary arrange
/; mentS are poor
"a From a sightseeing point I find Are
"a Quipa quite as interesting as Lima.
has a great cathedral. built of whit
ne stone, which must cover an acre c
~ so OF space. This faces on the plaZ
filling the whole of n side of til
n square. The three other sides are o.
rs cupied by stores. more quaint tina
- any in Europe. The buildings are
only one story, and in front of the
nd extend wide portales or corridors wit
lie huge columns separating them fro
of the plaza. On the other side of tt
err corridors is a wall of cave-like vault
lighted only from the front and tf
nd roof. The stores are fifteen or tWel
ed ty feet wide and twenty or thirty
nd more feet deep. and their ceilings a
CIV arched. so that the whole looks Ill
res one long vault. The goods are hur
he from the ceiling and piled up on Il
ur floors. The market seems to be
IT good one, and / saw many AmerIc5
ie- articles.
Nearly all the houses of Arequil
it have vaulted roots and on some OF Il
Try ore-story structures the roofs extei
liza u pin oval domes or hoods. The Ct
at IS under the shadow of the Volcal
ief Mount Misti and in the past has II;
asst serious earthquakes. For this reas'
DOL the skyscraper will nexer be know
and today a fve-story building won
it be the talk of tle town.
fine city is n OF the oioeSt TOW
IDS in America mad 1t oates paeh aii,'
snx- af Dirnr gro 1t is q Ma