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INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE.

to Pnnn, 217.6 miles,

nn<l

fmm Jnlwca, to Sant a Ro. a,

miles, with siding, etc.,

4l.G

miles. Tlte gange is

-t.;

inc11es, the raíl sle

1, üO

p outH1s to the

yanl;

the

heavie:t gr:tde,

per ceut.

'l'he

Pnnu uivision

was

op .ncd in

1 74,

and the Cuzco

diYisiun from Jnliaca, iul

75.

Thc lattcr was originally projected to Cnzco.

line of

sleamers on Lake Titicaca runs in connection with tbis railway from Puno to Chili–

Ja:vo,

Bolivia,

120

miles.

Tbis roacl is owtwd by thc PenlYian Go,' ernment

n.nd

was originally leascd and

opera.ted

h.v

John

Tborn<lyko, bnt by a r cent contract

has beeu leased to

M .

P. Gmcc

Co., and

to b cxtendcll to La Paz in Bolivia.

llo and Moquegua Railroad,

from the port of Ilo to the interior town of Moquegua,

6:~

milefl, ruoniug throuo·h onc of tbe richest \tine-produeiug uistricts in the country.

wa ' locatetl by Jobu

Tbornrlyke, the constrnction beguu in

1871,

aml opened

1:37;3,

hadug en. t in

all 85,025,000.

is ownecl by tbe Pernvian Government.

Gange

feet -

inches.

In tho work on the railways of Peru submitted with the report of tbe delegate

from tbat conntry line.s of ra.ilways betwcon Yarious p:trts of

the

country are dis–

cussed.

.Among tbe roads proposed, in addition to tlwse above named, aro the fol–

lowing:

From Cbancay (on the Lima, Ancou and Cbaucay Railroad) to Cerro de Pa co ;

from lea (Pisco aud Jea railroaü) to Ayacncho in

ti.Je

int ·rior; from Tacna (on the

Chilian road uetwcen Arica and Tacna) to Pnno; from Trujillo ( alaverry

Trujillo)

to Cajamarca ancl Eten.

On January 11, 1 90, the Pernvian Government signed a contract wlth the Grace

bondbolderscecling for sixty-six years the railway üom Mollendo to Areqnipa

a.nd

Pnno, Jnliaca to Sa,ntaRosa, Pisco to lea, Calbo to Cbicb, Lima to Ancon, Chimbote

to eec imao, P acasn1ayo to Yonan a ncl Gnadalnpe, Salaverry to Trujillo, Paita to

Pium,. with all the nece sary l:tnd for their extension. The work contemplated is,

fir, t. the exteuRion ancl repair of the existing railways at an e timated cost of

'~<3

2l2,000,

the exteosion of the Arec¡uipa Railway fl'om Pnno, its terminns ou Lake

Titícaca, to Desaguadero, on tbe Bolivian froutier, by a narrow-gange lioe; and

second, to continua the lme from Desaguadei'O toLa Paz and Ornro, in Bolivia, at an

estimated co t of$3

150,000.

Tbe exi ·ting revenue from ra.ilways is

·6,:300.000,

which

to be available to the uondholdcrs.

.Auother concession in tb.eir hands empowers

them to connect the Oroya

Ra.il

way wítb tbc navigable waters of the Amazon by 1

miles of narrow-g:1nge roacl. Alon witb the

coutra.ct

mentioned there are ce sions

of valuable guano tleposit .

PERU IN 1887- '88.

Foreign capital and euterprise are indi pen able for the aclvancement of tbis coun–

try mu.terially and in the way of business. Tbe natural re ·ou rces of Peru a

regards

ruining, a ricnlture, wine growing, aod cattle raising are uulimited, but find here

no sufficient elements for their proper development, owing to inability of the Govern–

ruent to lend assistance and the general poverty t>verywhere experienced. Ancl that

c~pital

and enterprise certain to be richly rewarded, is withheld doubtless from the

<11

t1·nst entertained by foreiO'ners asto the guaranties afforc1ed to them in the invest–

ment of their mean aníl the recent proceeclings rega.rdiuO' certain railwav contracts,

ba ed upou legal di position ancl perfectecl witb propedy-con tituteu Government ,

are certainly not calcnlatecl to di pel such distrnst.

ome adHntnres of foreign

capital have been wade iu ruining enterprises. The fa.mous silver mines of Hual–

ga.yoc, in the vicinity of Cajamarca, are now to be worked

an American company

. atd to be well eQuippecl with the means of sncce<> fully developinO' their nndertak–

mg. fJ:lld tbe gold wasbings of Carabaya, near Areqnipa, are in the hand,· of a re-

pon

tbl~

organization formed in London by the htte Admira! Garcia y García.

T~e

Ltma Ra.ilwayf:l Company, au En lish organization, recently sent to Pen1 the

pre

1cl~mt

_of

tbei r board of

clin~ctors~

and this gen

laman ba. heen engaged

in.in–

m ve. tlgahuO' tbe arlvaotage of contmuin

tbe lme conn ctin(l' Lima with C

honlla

to Pt.sco

a~d

lea,

1~0

miles down the coa.

t .

Tbis raíl way h;\3 been the

nbject oí

con .1derat:on .for year past., and the general opiniou is that from the immen

fertde regwn

would traversa, from wbence the Lima aud Callao markets could