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Show AMAZON it IlLLlI A. W. McCnnc lletu Jjl Home After rompSI Details. V IjINE WILL TRAYfiRsfli PERU, SOUTH 1m Utalin Has ConcessiS Road Will Be Renflf able One. W' After an absence of a ycarjSf1 A. V. .MeG'une returned in Ihia cily Tuesday. n0 cMt New York-, but since hi3 jmji the city he has been twice and twice to Peru, and at tlM returns after having comp3S tiations and preliminary plaB construction of the railroi2 South America that will c' Atlantic and the Pacific o9k will become in time one oftSp famous lines. Mr. McCuno Wt man and his many friends iifR and slate will be glad to ioJK successitil outcome of his liostSb that have been maturing f(9K Mr. MeCune was seen i: Cune residence at the hcadflHt strew. Tuesday evening, nodR reply to questions that he b&jflf sent such :i length of timclHE the many matter.? of iinporjH had to be attended to in rH tcrs pertaining to tho TallrV and now that they lmveHI posed of he had come homc nHf rest, before leaving in Juna'Bl to begin active opcrationjMf new railroad. The name of the railroH Amazon & Pacific rnilwnv, anBj Cune has received from tbH of Peru valuable concessions the building of the line. TH sion includes 5,000.000 aereV aud approximately .$25,000 tiH the lino on the Pacific slopeB 000 per mile for the otlicr Amazon. Pailroad SituatioiJH From Lima, the PcrnvlaH operates over the highest jH tho Andes, and at Oroya 'H Ccrro dc Pasco railroad, wBiH Oorro and to the coal mines aH isquign. It is from this pobH Amazon & Pacific survey and runs to Puca Alpn, n poB Ucayali river, which river HotH into the mighty Amazon. FB is at tho head of nnvicstloK about 500 miles above YqulteS Amazon, aud to which poinfijH the largest ocean 8tonrasnipjH the Atlantic and through The plan is lo establish tho service to Puca Alpa, winch 6jB complished, thus tanking 'B about 2S00 miles of water toM the mouth of the Amazon, Alpa, the commencement of iW road on that side of the .00 Thus will be established al water and rail route from (H the Pacific through Lima iaM to the Atlantic the mcj The distance from GoyllariM Puca Alpa is from 220 to ljB according to different survcrsP In addition to, this line, from a connection with thcM Pasco road, MY. McCuno. iUMB concession for a. lino of A neon on Iho Pacific coaB Callao. and this line will b the line to the rcaynli is fS Ancon is a very fino port so the whole will complete of railroad from Ancon on AH coast of Peru, lo Puca A'PlS Ucayali river, a total ot 000 miles, according to r0UH Country Is WondcrfjJ To go into detail as to products, as well as indnHM can be developed, would majB story, but the region for .0B is il country without uiviliaH abounding in all manner o(BB metals, forests of hardwood mahogany, tropical fruits, OTM agriculture, of animals aodtMB growths and miuorals. ,I1t wiBB practically the whole of DAtBfl Peru that for centuries psFH inaccessible and wi,1r a,?,7"M length of time for frepyM sengers between the whole 1 ot tho Atlantic ports of tin; and Europe. Its traffic ( l are unlimited, owing to tne the native resources have.. never becu developed, various reasons the 't"1sslB building of the road will PJSs remarkable investment "r A!jM aud his friends. . Mr. McCnno will remain W .Tune, when lie will go begin tho actual work upon he enterprise, and its Pr..f,B doubt edly be watched with nm all the western friends, QiJ"M ator of the project. r;-2B hud tho road 111 view forjnaiM |