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INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONE'ERENCE .
165
of manufacturing iudnstry
in
this country.
(Report by Con:ml-General Armstrong,
Rio Janeiro, June 1, 1t3
~-)
Unuer clate of Augn t 31, 188!:>, Comml Borstel, of Pernambuco, reports tbat tbe con–
tmct to boil<l
u.
uew railroad in tbe province of Piauhy, in tllis consular clistrict, has
been a.warded to Dr. Newtou Coyar Bnstlamaqui, a Braúlian. Tbis liue will be nar–
row-gr.uge, and will begin in tbe city of Amarante, a small sea-port town in tbe
above-nawed province, and run to the sierra callecl Dais Amaas, or Two Brothers, in
the same province, a distance of 700 kilometers, or 140 leagues. Dr. Bnstlamaqni has
an additional contract to carry on the line from the saicl sierra to the city of Petro–
lina, on tbe banks of the River San Francisco, in the province of Pernambuco, a
distance of 200 kilometers, or 40 leagues. This is thesame line of which sorne meager
acconnt was sent in my dispatch No.
:~3,
of April 14, 1
i:l •
The estimated cost of the
line is $12,000 per kilometer, or close to $10,000,000 for the whole line. Tbe Govern–
ment guarantied 6 per cent. yearly upon the capital expended until the line is fin·
isbed to its satisfaction.
BRITISH GUIANA.
Demarm·a Railway,
from Georgetown to
Mahaic~t,
20 miles. This line is owned by
a Britisil corporation organized in
Ul45.
The road
w:v:¡
completad and opened
throughout its entire length, September 1, 1804, and has a gauge of 4 feet
81
inches.
The netearuings for 1888 were ')67,145.