Show g A ROAD THAT SHOULD BE BUILT y fry t One of the great resources which would be utilized utilized util util- were a railroad to be run down on the east side o of f the Cordilleras an and Andes would be the lumber i i trade There would be enough of it to pay the running run run- run run- running f i ning ng expenses of the road and the interest on its i IZi IZ bonds k 1 f Within the next decade the lumber supplies of the tt f the e United States will be restricted practically to toti toto ti t to the west coast and to the forests of the Southern States And even these alrea already begin to feel the i strain upon them Lumber has has' in price so much that builders are turning wherever practical 1 r t to cement and structural steel In eastern Peru and andr v. v r v Bolivia livia and western ves ern Brazil Brazil the fore forests s are wonderful 6 of their woods and all t. t f in to the luxuriance and variety would be in striking distance of a railroad passing V 4 J down the east flank dank of the great South American an f- f range Th There re would woul b be the won wonderful hard woods of the i alley valley succeeded by the temperate zone woods as Ii 1 f the the elevation increased so that any order could be filled Were the road t to skirt the mountains and anda a ithem t en Deflect to th the the- coast all the cities of the coast t l be its p patrons tro s. s The lumber would be but one onet f kf t item m The factor fo for years would be he th thI the mines mines The Their treasures are inexhaustible and a ro road d would in a few years produce a greater transformation transformation transformation trans- trans I formation there than has come come of the Union and Southern roads for that would not be a d desert sert to f. f Lc W t 4 i lint a R. R orf ion rea-ion ion V.- V. 7 where eve every every possibility of agri agriculture and and- horticulture L r ture could be realized V It is s a wonder to us that the rich men of this J v 4 co country who are worried about how to to invest their I t mon money money y where it will be safe and where it will return r r. r r them Dla a low rate o of int interest rest do not combine and wi with witha h hl l 1 i a great through road from the Caribbean sea to Rio rte 1 and and nd Buenos Ayres make a peaceable conquest est of that continent sr t S When n our co country was poor and when California fr cw t was vas s a hun hundred re d days s removed by tea team or by j t and and- twenty-eight twenty days by steam via vIa the isthmus i h people were transported transporte there in two two and anda a aI I f lf years rears Now the northern t terminus of of this road f would be but six days from New York but four and andL andi i L sa a half days from our southern ports H How w many many men f would would f follow the opening of a road through that A k 4 country c u I ry il kS it rr Two o millions of f young men m annually are seeking for f r places in m which to achl achieve ve fame and fortune r. r Quite colored men in the South would be I I. I glad to find fina a congenial country a million people c H land on our shores annually quite half of whom f r. r tr could be easily diverted to to a new field where lands I. I t J are e cheap and where a railroad removes the pl pro pro- O- O if- if v ducts Of f the center of ofa a 3 continent to with within D three dars days o of a market on the coast i Th The road w were re rei i it begun and d pt pushed two h hundred i i c miles ile into the interior so that the world would s see e that ha it was a sure suie thing could not hot after that keep t-t t r l out out out-of of the way vay of the rush that would be pressing upon on it it It t is the one gre great t conquest left for American American Ameri Ameri- f 1 can can railroad men to tom make ke if they have ave but the nerve nerve f t to go first and look up its possibilities and then go gox 4 x t to to work to build it J. J |