Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

be fast expresses from one capital to
the other. The distance from Monte
yideo to Rio is almost as great as from
London to ConStantinople.
The actual number OF miles is 1867
and the running time just about four
days. The fare is SIS United States
currency. The route goes over the
Uruguay Central to the Brazilian from
tier. where it connects with the roads
of Rio Grande do Sui 1t then goes
about a thousand miles northward to
San Paulo, and thence over the Cen.
trail Railroad of Brazil to Rio de janet
ro The Brazilians are extending their
roads north of Rio Janeiro and they
will eventually unite with the coast
ports and extend to Para. at the mouth
of the Amazon. We shall then be able
to go from the mouth of the Amazon to
the mouth of the Rio de la Plata by
rail.
The Farquhar company has Its chief
Offices in New York city and its rolling
stock and the most of it's materials for
construction are being purchased In the
United States. Among the articles
bought are spruce and yellow pine lum-
Der for buildings. white oak for ties,
cement telegraph poles and. bridge
steel and steel rails. Something like
other rolling stock have been recently
shipped.
Another American company, which
will probably do more business as the
financial conditions improve. is the
Pan-American Transcontinental rail-
way. This has capitalization of $751;
100000. Its project Is to build a road
In a northeasterly direction across the
republic from the city of Colonia to the
Brazilian border 1t Is the first Amer
. Ia
Plata region; and it's scheme will open
up a very valuable country which is
now largely undeveloped. At present
it is mostly pasture, consisting of roll
ing prairie, broken here and there by
low ridges. The number of cattle, in
the departments crossed by the route. Is
estimated al two millions. and the num-
Der of sheep at ten millions. More
over. the soil is said to be rich. grow
ing alfalfa and yielding something like
forty bushels of wheat to the acre. I
would say that the latter estimate
seems extravagant.
This Pan-American 'Transcontinental
Railway Company Is a part of a great
trunk line which was projected to con-
meet the roads Of North and South
America Its ultimate object is the
completion of rapid and direct rail-
way communication between Valparaiso
and the Pacific by way of Argentina,
Uruguay and Brazil to Pernambuco on
the Atlantic. from which points lines Of
steamers will establish rapid COM
munication with Europe and North
America. 1t will also be continuation
of the line running southwark from the
United States through Mexico to the
Isthmus of Panama, and from there
down through Colombia. Ecuador. Peru.
Bolivia and Chile When the work here
was originally started-it has been
stopped since then for lack of money
1t was under the National Railway
Construction Company. 1t had an office
at Montevideo, and the engineering
force and clerks were Americans. At
one time it had nearly a thousand men
working on the construction. The most
Of them were Italians.
AS to the present railway systems of
Uruguay, they have altogether about
1000 miles of lines. Outside the Ameri-
can enterprises there are five great
railway companies. each of which re-
ceives government guarantees. The
most important by far Is the Central
Uruguay, which operates in tn neigh
borhood of thousand miles of track,
and has net receipts of almost three