Show WELBY WRITES OF INCAS INGAS LAND 4 Former Rio Grande Superintend Superintendent ent out Describes Strange Sights HE TELLS OF ANCIENT RUINS f TAXES TAKES INTERESTING TRIP OVER i I THE TE TEA MOUNTAINS I MID the picturesque surroundings A AMID of ot a land that is I new and strange I Arthur B a Welby Welb the former sea gen general eral era superintendent of the Rio Grande Grands Western has bas commenced a chain of letters to his family and friends here that are aItt of ot interest They deal with the romance legendry and habits of ot a ap p peep ap whose ancestors have left no history of o the past pest excepting the ruins I and great canaJa which alone aone mutely the glories of at a civilization rivaling ri rivaling rIvaling our own In many respects Mr Mv last fist la t letter latter to his family was wa received several days ago and at atthe atthe the th time Ume It was waa matted mailed he had already commenced the work of or supervising the th construction of the Peruvian railroad is building g from froin the coast to th the tha McCune mining properties Mr Welby had b n over the mountains once one to t some onie S me of the terri tern territory tory ov over r which the road will wUl pass and the Journey was VMS s not only new and strange but it was replete repete with inter eat set It Is I the tha home of ot the tie Incas a people that have proved an unfailing source of or attraction to the student of or gy bat bett who have left leCt no record of or their bygone splendor and greatness gre excepting ex wonderful irrigating IrrigatIng ing ditches and anil the crumbling walls of or architectural rains n ns which speak of ot ahI a hip hI D Traces of ot Gardens Mr Welby writes that the country IK Is I crossed and by the ruins of DC these the th e great canals and on the trip he frequently fr u came caine upon the crumbling I walls walk of at structures that even now re retain tab tain some of ot the imposing proportions I that once on e stood stO d aa as a monument to the I intelligence nee and of ot the I 1 tribes Even n now writes Mr Welby Welb one can trace ce the beautiful gar gardene gardone 1 done dent and nd ad groves which surrounded the homes There is a symmetrical order In the arrangement of the shrubs and trees tt a geometrical accuracy In the parks which betrays an artistic knowledge of or landscape lan pe gardening Butof But Butot ot of the people themselves s no trace re Mr Welby packed his goods over the mountains with mules The native nathe however uses UHS the llamas They are a graceful animal strong surefooted and doolie d oUe These animals are found IH Iii Ute the mountains in great numbers and the thai are re easily tamed and are very as they accommodate them to the various ulous changes of cli climate climate climate mate which are encountered in moun mountain tHIn tain travel trav At tt one time on the jour journey journe journy ney ny ne from Lima to Oroya Mr Welby reached r hed an altitude of ot feet teet This 1 i high higher than Mt It Hood the pride of Oregon He Be H does not state whether the mountain was covered cov with snow but buth buthe h he be says that it was very cold and the theair theair thep p air was ws very thin Makes Hakes Eyes Bloodshot Mr Welby says AYS that he stood the oHM better than anyone in the party hit but his eyes were bloodshot and they h I bed the feeling that they were going te to pop OJ out of or their sockets When the party I neared Cerro de do te Pasco where tte Lk tt mines are they came upon the huge hup ku crater cr r of an extinct volcano The bed bd of the basin n is I covered coe with w th Im mense quantities ot o ore which la is packed to the top on the backs of at the natives The port where he disembarked is at eight miles from Lima where the u road ha Nul ha Its Ita main offices The rail railroad read road Is Ie l from the Pacific port i to te Oroya and is 1 to be extended from that point to t Cerro Come de Pasco One of the principal sports at Lima is Isike the ike Sunday bull bult ft and the entire imputation turns turna out to the entertain entertainment ment mant |