The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-08


ton project OF this firm. It's destruc-
tlon by the floods of 1925. It's re-
construction. aud It's subsequent
operation.
The first album shows a desert
valley. with here and there
wrctched hut Inhabited by an un-
dernourished Indian family. When
the transformation began the avail.
able labor. recruited from far and
wide. was so emaciated and under
fed that a full days work was
entirely beyond Its strength.
The contractors set In to build
houses for the families OF their la.
borers. TO furnish them with ample
food, and TO abolish the toll of pow
erty. The concluding pictures OF
this album show contented,
happy. and well-nourlshed lot OF
laborers and their families and give
gllmpses OF the holidays OF 1900
people who had been able to trans
mute misery into comfortable we'll
being because foreign capital con-
yerted n desert into garden.
The next album shows the food
OF 1925, the first one within the
memory OF the natives. Higher and
higher IL rose. The adobe houses
melted before the downpour as
snow before a springtime sun. The
rushing torrents swept away the
sugar mills and cotton gins. tore
out the railroads. carried the
bridges from their abutments, and
wrought general havoc.
The third collection shows condI-
tions after the food subslded. re-
vealing that IL had indeed torn
down the whole structure OF the
erstwhlle thriving community. from
turret TO foundation stone. Back
II was to It's original despair What
would become OF those 1900 peo-
pie who bad found a decent live
lIhood there? Must they go back
10 the unemployment, the pltiless
poverty from which this industry
had brought them?
Happily. the fourth picture vol
ume answers no. For the House OF
William and John Lockett had
frugal financial policy In days OF
It's prosperity. II had laid aside its
savings and had established a good
credit: so II was able TO begin I'm
medIately the work OF restoration
and on an extended scale. AS one
turns the pages, II can be seen that
every laborer was busy. and the
final pictures show the rebuild
ing complete. the crops fiourishIng
once more. and the thousands OF
natives again In full possession OF
the opportunities to earn living
wage.
At her back door Lima has one
0t the mIghtiest mountain areas In
the world. and the wealth that
comes down out OF them from such
great mines as those of Cerro de
Pasco and from the smelters OF
Oroya rivals In value the streams
OF precious metals which flowed
INTO the Lima OF long ago on the
backs OF llamas and donkeys.
Wonderful Railways.
Excursion trains run from Lima
nearly TO the summit OF the Andes
every Sunday. over the Central
railway OF Peru and those who
make the trip enter into one OF
the greatest wonderlands OF the
earth. Here nature. ancient man,
and modern civilization seem TO
have conspired to Great the great
est engineering show ever staged.
The mountains rise to a height
OF more than 1900 feet at the low
est pass; the eastern faces OF their
subordinate ridges are smooth, and
the western slopes usually are a
riot OF unweathered rock, where
one may read In the thousands OF
broken and twisted strata the
strength OF the titanic hand with
which nature fashioned them.
The railroad. in its turn, shows
how modern engineering can trl-
umph over the obstacles nature
has placed in its path. Rising to
a summit Of 1868 feet 20 the
Calera tunnel, 1t has to pass
through 81 tunnels. over 41 bridges.
and around 10 zigzags or switch
backs.
II reaches nearly mile higher
than any standard-gauge rail-
road In North America, a quar-
ter of a mile higher than the
summit OF Pixies Peak-even high
er than Mont Blanc itself.
Here it takes the bed OF the
Rio Blanco and gives the stream
a tunnel At Puerto del Infer
Milo (the Bridge of the Little Hell)
IL passes out of a tunnel onto
bridge and into another tunnel
Near San Bartolome 1t enters a
covered way of concrete whose
roof Is the artificial bed of stream |
II did not want to cross.