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Show Another Railroad In Mexico. Sax Fkaxcisco, August 11. C. P. Huntington is reported to have obtained ob-tained a concession from the Mexican government for a railroad from the Pacific Pa-cific Coast to the centre of Mexico. The government will donate $17,000,000 to build and equip a railway from nearly opposite Cape St. Lucas in Lower California Cali-fornia to Torreon in the state of Coa-huila, Coa-huila, a distance of nearly 1,300 miles. This concession was formerly owned j by a man named McWnod, and the line I of surv ey was to have run from the port j of Giiaymas through Sonora, touching at Culiacun in Sinaloa and terminating i at Torreon, the junction of the Mexican j Central and International railroads. 1 The International is al eady con-! con-! trolled by Huntington and this last con-I con-I cession will give him a monopoly of I the important railroad traffic of Mex-! Mex-! ico. I McWood failed to carry the road 'through and thus lost the concession, i Huntington will get SS.0O0 a mile from j t he state of Durango for the line run-j run-j ning through that state. |