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Show . MEXICO ; "By Frederic J. Haskiti . . ' GAMBOA. Mexico. Tbe Pi a-Americaa railroad, lately completed between tan point an if tka Ouaumalsn frontier at Mariaml, gives Mexico railway eoaneetions from i la southernmost border to tha Rio Graade. It adda nearly S00 milee toward tka faal fulSllmeat ef tka gee- adaiirablr in tba altiiaata plaa of pro-jartiaf pro-jartiaf a ataadard gauged railroad aootk of Faaaaia. It kaa baaa laid witk iftyaii aad aixtr poaad atari rails, ita blidgaa ara built oa sraaite foaadalioaa, ita tiaa ara of Biahofsay aad otbar bard woods, aad ita (radirata ara sui tad to comparatively bravy traf-i. traf-i. It puses fhrougk aa aadereloped eanntry woadarfuHr rik ia ita ra-soareea, ra-soareea, s coastal plaia ta placet aearljr s bnadrad nilea wide. Tba Pa,n Aaiericaa ia built' aader s ninety aina jraar roareasioa, aad Ibe Mexicoa fforeraawat oTe ita boilders a aobaidr of approximately SIOKMI a mile, oar niaaey, toward ita aonstrna-tina. aonstrna-tina. Tba terma af tha mortasge nader whirb it ia bailt provides for a boad asaa of Slt.iMKI a aiils, witk tha reaer-vatioa reaer-vatioa thai tha taaoe shall aot axreed tmn a aila autil aurh time aa Ike oet aarainga ara twiea aa ffreat aa tbe iatereat charge aa tba total autknrised f i eratioa Joaa dreaai af aa intereoatt-aentsl intereoatt-aentsl r a 1 1 r a a d wkirk will anil tka Anaeriraa witk hoada a f atari There remains a small eertioa lo be dlled ia betweea tka Onsleaialan frostier aad tbe (laatemala t'eatral. It Ikea will ba pos sibla to aiaka the joa rare from snT point ia tka Waited Htstea ta Ooate mala City by rail. boad issue. A bob of president max ia one af tka directors of tka road. Tba trains of tha Paa Aaieriraa ru oa a peculiar schedule. Tha trip from flamboa ta Taparhala ia too long to ba mada ia a smle day, so tha trains start ia tba morniac, tub aa far aa Toaala. atop there over aieht and eoa-tinue eoa-tinue tha journey aext day, reaching Ts par hula br sundown. Oa the aeetioa betwaea Tspachula and Mariscal there ia anly ana train a week, and that rone aa buaday. However, tbe operating afneials of tha ran American, being I . W . TT Q, . , u k- . a warm Tbe rap between the Pa Americaa sad tha Oua terns Is raa,lral will be tiled ia aa boon aa tbe two liaee caa tattle their differences differ-ences cob earning av bridge that spans tha river betwaea Mineral and Ayntla. The distance ia laaa thaa fifty miles aad tha territory through wkleh tbe road ia to be epost rutted la aot a dif-Irult dif-Irult eae. , The dispute about tka bridge spaa aiag tka Buefciate river iavolvea aa ria their hearts for American trav-I trav-I aad nftaa allow them tha privi lege of riding on a onstraetioB trail any day in the week. Tha operation of ThoFaB American has baea takes aver bv the National railways af Mexico, and tba line will become aa integral part of that ays- interesting inters at to aal quaatioa. When D. E. Tbompsoa waa amoaaaador of tba Uaitad H tales le Mexico be aa-eured aa-eured tha confidence of tbe Guatemalan goaarnmaal -by - assist ise a -bring m about aa amicable aettlemeat af a dispute dis-pute betwaea the tan goveramaata, which threatened to reaoJt ia war. After terminating kit diplomatic ee-viee ee-viee be arcs red tbe concession aader tam. A strong effort is being made to exploit the territory through which the line passes. Hitusted no farther from tha markets of tha eastern part of the United Mtatee thaa anuth-rB California, and many days closer to Near York Ibe Atlantic seaboard, via tbe Panama canal, it ia claimed that a great future ia fruit growing le la prospect. The territory through which the road passes ia one of tbe famous coffee producing pro-ducing aectioni of Mexico. It waa expected ex-pected that the building "f the road would result in all this aoffee reaching tha marketa iif the world via tbe Te-huantepee Te-huantepee route, and in thin way- the Pan-American would prove a feeder for that road. Home fear ia now expressed that tbe extension of the Paa-Ameri-ran to the Onatemamn frontier and its connection witk the Onatemala rentral will result iB much of tha southern Mexico Mex-ico coffee seekioa aa outlet aver the stter road aad through the ports Chnmperieo and Port Barrios. A trip through lha territory env- whiek tha 1'an Americaa railroad kaa baaa btrilt. This carried.it ta the middle of the Sorhiate river, where tbe bouadary betwaea Maxiee aad Guatemala it encountered. Thompson want te the Guatamalaa government and obtained a eeBoeeaioa lor the extension ex-tension of tbe bridge to the Unite-eialaa Unite-eialaa shore aad iu operatioa hereafter, here-after, la the roaeaaaioa, however, waa a elanee specifying that this thould ant conflict with tba rights of aay third party. There Beamed te be no third party witk wkoae right it could conflict, aa the Tbompeoa syndicate completed the bridge. At thia juncture the Interests behind the Guatemala 'antral came forward with tha sssertioi that they held s prior eoaceaaioa and that the Tbompsoa Tbomp-soa eoaeeaaioa it ia eoatraventioa of their right. 8o the matter waa earned ear-ned to President Cabrera. He heard' both aidea of tha argument and at the ered by the Pan-Americaa it aa interesting inter-esting ene. Iu rolling stock la of good qnalitv, the engines, like all OeBtrel American engines, being wood bunera with very expansive tmnkestaeVa. The road fnllowa the old Camino Real, or royal highway, built by the Spaniards to give the city of Tahuantenee aa outlet out-let to rentral America. A little way south of Gamhoa ene cornea open the lands knowa at Ui Merquiaadas, now subdivided Into the vast haeieadaa. or ranches, of La Veeta, Chapiea aad Tar-if Tar-if a, which were presented to Cortex by tha Hpanitk crown. The cattle aa these ranches are still brssded with the tame symbol that waa used la Cortex's Cor-tex's time. Near Tonala, and only a few miles from the railroad, are the ruins of an ancient eitv, which Professor Hewitt of the Smithsonian institutiea believe constituted one of tha ehaia of eitiaa which included the Case Orange ruins of northern Mexico, the Mixtee pa lace of Mitla aad tbe luint of Yucatan. At Tapeebnla oae finda a castoms house, although the town ia inland. It ia fee the port ef San Benito, which ia situated situ-ated on-the coast. When the vessels which call there coma into port, eus-tnma, eus-tnma, ouarantiaa and port officers go dowa from Tapachula aad attend to tbe bnsieess. When the clearance papers pa-pers are turned over, all band return to Tapachula, leaving Baa Benito da-aerted da-aerted aatil the next tain cornea In, aad that ia usually a long time. With tbe coming of the Paa-Amerieaa the glory of Baa Benito at a seaport hat departed. preeent moment the outcome it uncertain. un-certain. However, the tntereaU behind tbe Guatemala Central are the interesU that have been powerful enough to prevent the United Htatea from calling Cabrera to account for some of hit of-trial of-trial acta, and it ia probable that the final decision will be ia favor of those intercuts. When the gap between the Pan-American Pan-American and tbe Guatemala Central la rilled is, the next gap will be the one betweea tbe Gnatemf la Central at Eaeuintla aad the Salvador railway, or the new railroad being built north from La Union ia tka lower part of Salvador. Front here a line would hnve to be built to Chinandega, Nicaragua, crossing the little strip of Honduraa territory betweea Salvador aad Nicaragua, The government railroad rail-road ia Nicaragua would form the link aa far toward Panama aa Granada. Between this latter point aad tha railroad rail-road ia Coata Rica there ia a wide fan, with ao immediate plana for filling it. Betwaea tha railroads of Coata Rica aad the proposed extenaioa of a road front Panama te David there ia aaother wide gap, with ao greater prospect of being filled. .The recent etatement ef aa ex aaaistant secretary of Stat to the effect that there will be a through- Paa-Americaa Paa-Americaa system to Panama ia five reara it aot accepted seriously by the railroad builders of Central America. These man ara matter of fact railroad men, te whom profits look more import ant than aentimeat, aad they assert that such a through system would not pay at the present time Na eae who aaa traveled frera tbe afexieaa border to Waabingtoa earns to do it a second time, aad anyone who hat traveled ever tbe railroads ef Central America would never plan enrk a trip aa a plena-are plena-are eating. Kreigbt bsuled hv rail for sucb a dittaaee weald bave prohibitive pro-hibitive tariff! te encounter. Therefore There-fore local traffle weald bare te tap-port tap-port tbe sv st sin, and ia Central America Amer-ica tha Batumi lanea of traffle lead front the interior te tbe aeaporta. Tbe proposed Paa-Amerieaa would arose these natural chaaaelt of trade at riffht aaglea. Even wbea tbe iy comes tbat tbe rape ia tbe proposed system are filled la it will be impossible te take a through train if the roadi now built or eerioetly projected south ef Guatemala Guate-mala are to be considered ia tba eoa-structioa eoa-structioa nf tbe Paa-Amerieaa ayatesx. Almost wit boot exception they are Barrow Bar-row eauge roada, aad tbeir reastnie tioa baa heea projected oa sneb a basis tbat BOthing bat rebuilding would eerva to transform them late ataadard fan ire liaee. 80 far as the Paa-Amerieaa ef Mexico Mex-ico is concerned, it will serve its part |