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INTERNATIONAL
A~fERICAN
CONFERENCE.
ThP
rornplcrN1 portion,
of narrow gn ngP, ha'l bOPH o¡wntc·• for
~o;Pveral
yNtrs,
:tnfl
cost
abont 1.000,000 sol s.
Jt
passcs 1bronglt a ril'h
~;ngar
:u11l
cott.ouconntr lXleudtng
along thr co:vt abont 100 miles antl
(iü
mih~s
inl:11Hl.
Elen anll Ferranaje Haill'oad,
from Port of Etcu to Fernmafe,
GO
miles.
Tlte
original conce.'sion was made Jnly
:3,
1867, to José A. Garria
y
Garcia, aud trans–
fr.rrecl by
p(
rmi ·sion of Gov rnmcnt, October, 18G7, toa stock company.
'!'be road
is
of
stamlard ganl!e
and was
opened
in 1':;73.
J>aca.nnayo and
J[agda/('ua
Raill'ocu1,
from Pacasmayo to Gnaclelnpe and Yonau,
93
mi
le·. This ro:ul "-a
lmilt of standard gange, ancl is owned antl operated u
y
tlJc GoYernment.
An ex.teusion
is proposcd to Cnjamarca, where it touclws
n.
heantiful graziug ami farming conntry; it conld
be
extended to thc Amazon
·ia
Chachapo,va
autl
~Ioyol>amba.
A
portion was tlestroyc<l by freshets, becausc it
bnd bcen loca.tcd near tbe river,
in
wbicb tllere
i~
a
tremendous cnrreut
in
the
" ·inter. Kear it. pre. ent terminn are rich silver mines.
Salaverry and Trujillo Railroad,
from the port of Salaverry to Trujillo, capital
of
tht>
Depurt.ment of L<t Libertad,
'5
mile::;.
This road, of
:3
feet gange, was
bnilt bv the Peruvian Go,Temment nnd opened abont
1 ,i5.
TlJere are sorne <'Oa.l
mines ütrt,her on, and it
i
proposed to extend tbe road to them, but it can h:we
no ea ·tern outlet.
Chimbote
IIuamz
and Requay Railroad,
Chimbote to Reqnay,
60
miles; gauge,
3
feet. Tlle total projected length is 172 miles. The constrnction of th is road wa
begnn in
1 70 by
fiJe Pernvian GoYernment, wbich owns
ancl
operates it.
It
rnus
thron~h
a hroken, hcavy conutry, anü tonche · what i
said to be one of the
riciJest mineral r<'gious in Peru, there bein<Y sihTer ancl mineral coal beds on the
Jine. The coal i:s bituminous and valuaule for ste1.m ancl gas; tlle supply is saitl
to he snfticient for the wl.Jole Pacific coast, while the · haruor of Chimbote
iH
probably
rhe
best sonth of Pauama.
Lima, .Jncon, anll Chancay Railt·oad,
from
Lima.toCba.ncay, 43 miles; gauge, 1 meter.
Tbis road rorrns the tir
t
and second sections of the Lima and Hnacho Railroad.
It
r11ns north from thc rigJ't- bank of the Rirnac River (which flows through thc center
of the city of Lima), followin(}' anc1 nearly parallel to tbe coast.
It
was built by
a.
stock compauy aud was origi-nally projectecl to ruu to Huacbo, about
25
miles !Jeyoud
Chancay, but no work has been done ou tbe 1ast sectiou for many years. The cou–
ce
ion was afterwan1s annullecl antl the roacl acquired by the Government.
Its total
co
ti
wa
.,2,600,000.
Lima and .Jfagdrtlena Railroad,
from Lima to Magdalena,
5
miles; gauge,
1
meter.
·callao, Linw, and Oroya Railroad,
from tbe port of Callao to Chicla, 6.5 ruiles;
gange,
4
feet
8t
inches. The con truction was begun
in
Jannary,
1
iO,
by t.IJe late
Henry :MeiO'gs nnrler a contract made
in
Decernber, 1 69, with tbe Peruvian Govern–
ment, which calletl for tbe completiou oftbe whole line, Callao to Oroya, 1J5. miles,
in ix year . The contractor was to receive
$~7,600,000
for the building of the line,
which then
wa to
become the property of the Government. The road
pre~ents
orue
of the most remarkab1e engineeri_ng acllieve111ent in tlle world. Over sixty tnnnels,
oran average of abont one in every 2 mile ·, pierce the mountain in its path. Among
tbe. e the most remarkable is the Galern, or ummit, Tunnel, 104.5 miles east of Callao,
which
is
nearly 4,000 feet long, and is 15,645 feet above tbe sea-leve
l.
At Monnt Meigg
tbe road reache
üs
hiO'he t elevation,
17,574
feet, froru tha·t point uescending tlle
ea. tern Jope of the Ande to Oroya,
12,257
feet above ea-1eve1.
In addition to tbe
lar(}'e nnmber oftunnel there are also abont eighty bri<lges, tbe most iUJportant be–
iDO' the Agua de Verrugas Viadnct, 576 feet long and 253 feet bigb, constrncted on
tite
Fink
truss
plan.
In consequence of the great engineering difficulties which attended the con trnc·
tion of thi
lme
it
cost O'featly exceeded tbe original estimates, antl when tbe road
rea
·h~d
Chicla, to wt.ich poiut
it
ha been opened for everal years, the funda appli·
cable to
its
construction had been exba.usted.