Show SOME REMOTE RAILROADS The pjogramme of the Valde Qoppcr River and Yukon railway seems to be finding favor It is to build a line of railway In Alaska from the head of navigation nav-igation on Copper river to the Yukon via rattans river a distance of 113 miles The grade is said to be 1 easy and the capital of sixteen millions ought surely to build the toad This line will tap a copper region which probably has more copper exposed on the surface than is found at any other place in the world It will have enormous resources otherwise also and will lap a most im Jo tart region It will strike the Yukon Ayer fifteen hundred miles from its mouth and I will save that distance of hazardous navigation Its track will be wholly within TJnlicd States territory The PanAmerican railway comes to the front again in a mention of the openIng open-Ing of a new thirty miles oC the proposed pro-posed line in Guatemala completing a hundred < and Svctify miles in that country coun-try and leaving but a hundred miles Mostly in Mexico to build to con I icct Guatemala City wjth the City of I Mexico and thiough it with the railway systems of the United States That Pan American road will be the gcat line of the world in length when It is i com Jletcd including its connections with the north It 1 will as planned cross the Isthmus and go down the west coast of South Aincricju to Chile with a branch to Buenos Ayres But it will rc Itiirc time and unless here could be some guarantee of stable government In the countries traversed there would be ionic risk I This latter will deter capital unless It can be overcome The Cerro de Pasco road in Peru in which our townsman A W McCuno is much interested by reason > of his copper cop-per properties Is 1 probably the highest > aiiroad in the world It is of this road we believe that a recent account of min i Hngltoh mountainclimber reported llnding a depot and stoic so high up that ho supposed himself to be about at the top of the mountain when all at once he came upon it It was curious to read of his great efforts and hardship hard-ship and i all it once have them brought down to the mere ordinary by the llnding J of this store But the account ac-count shows that railroads are now taken pretty much anywhere that men can go that wide scorching deserts are no bar nor mountain heights and snows insuperable obstacles |