| Show THAT international ROAD BOAS the project tor for an international railroad has a good behind it it II Is questionable u whether hot her a road through from tho the city 0 of mexico to the isthmus tilmus Is of 0 panama P inami Is desirable just yet oven even it ft practicable lor for it would require 2000 miles of road which would not pay for fifty eare to come while a contilo ol of cross roads that are already under construction st would supply all the wants of 0 commerce but to run a railroad down either cither flank ot the andes would bo be to open up a continent and wo we should like to see thol UnIted states stand behind as much of 0 tho the stock as citizens ot of the united States would subscribe hoeven it if it were the whole A bole amount with the start that great and tho the netherlands have on bouth american trade and with the feeling which prevails lit in this country regarding paying subsidies to steamship companies compa our our people will noor noer in trade tako take a commanding position it in any ot of those countries except on the tha trail of american locomotives A glance at tho map mall will show that were a railroad to start from the head ol of ship navigation on the file miles ol of road would cover the iho space pace to buenos anil and klo ilia janeiro that jilt the road would bo be a single line to nearly opposite klo eliou divide ono lino line running to la elo and one oriolo to buenos Bueno sAyres tho difficult work bo be tho the first miles to the capital of Colomb ln ile beyond and thill that jt it it rould bo be easy sailing galling in building such a road there would bo be several to lo consider the northern coast ot of south america lit Is unhealthy the bouto ct cf this road would cross the ilia equator at or which at any KI laibl would bo be death to builders and operator Bythe by the route rouLe wo we have out oat ships would be carried tar far into the country lor for tho ilia atrato airato fl fit wide and dorp deep enough to boar bear the Rrean it many miles above Us its mouth from th the head of 0 navigation the rise would ile bo so BO swift that within a few ow inne i the road would bo be on it healthy plat plateau call may bo be that tin till rise Is 13 90 0 o abrupt that to build a rond road lit all would bo be impractical but wo we do not mime belicki that modern engineering could on id not over overcome donie the then the road reaching cingota lift gotA mould have crossed tha richest valley lalley in the world and abed a city of people alt and the richest city lit in south america with perhaps three thence sent south the line would follow the high table linda land across tho the haunter equator until anil to tho the south temperate nna where it would gradually descend to iho be pampas it would flank the mounta lol inq I 1 chich aich gave up the treasures that started europe on 9 career of prosperity alter after it alho ilia dark ages it would cross great rivers thai would bring to it the tropical productions lower down it would taking in tho the trade ot of all eastern south america open up A a country IN hero I 1 people could make homes A little branch to tho the southwest routh west would gross cross near its starting point over ilia alio llio cordilleras cordilleran Cordi lleras and place till all the iho most boat coast ol of that country under tribute fine thousand miles ol of road would do all III ahli the first threta hundred miles might cost amoo per mile tho the rest could bo be built for ball that sum the whole road fully equipped might cost that way JOB HOB not only a in mighty trade but it is tho the field where young america must epand IT if the states Inte interested reNted could agree upon a plan each state to back its own subscribers bers and three per cent upon the cot calf ilia burden would never bo be felt and it would could our citizens citizen own ow n t alio lie control of the stock bo be like a new worlds discovery being an exclusively elusively clu ively american road with only american stockholders it would glo the united states such a prestige that it would in four our or live five years regain for or a us all we have lost since our groat great war took from nit ill thear the trade ida of 0 thoo tho o countries it would be tor for our people what tho the peopling ol of california was forty years ago |
