Show THE SOURCE OF THE AMAZON Dr Stevenson thinks he hits has solved the problem as to the rca real source of tJ Hip Amazon He has been exploring the Peruvian Peru Andes for a n long time lie He seems to have discovered the truth about bout th the thc water parting between the tile streams that break brcak breakthrough through the western m mountains to tJ tho the Pacific coast und those th that t swell the floods o of or three other othi f s r jr- jr s f if vert ot rn o Pit P i 1 r i 1 1 not appreciate that Maranon It is one of or the the great and grand rivers of this whole world world and we suspect it win the power that will vill furnish famish the light and run the machinery of Peru fifty years hence Tiiu Thu great feeder of the Maranon is the he Lauricocha anc anc- it is the greatest t c c. c the tha Amazons Amazon's sources the doctor traced this thi river to a head hi hia u lJ ua a snow mountain called San Lorenzo Torenzo in the Cordil Cordil- leras Here the waters from some Home glacier fronts arc are gathered into a stream that forms a little litHe lal lake c Caballo Coca feet feel above the sea This is the most important source of the Maranon When hen we read of the Amazon it is like e reading of the distance to the thc stars stars we we can read the tha figures figures fig fig- ures but hut we cannot comprehend their magnitude The tributaries of the Amazon have l miles of navigable waters and the watershed of the great river is double that of our Mississippi If our townsman Mr l succeeds succeeds and andt t t is said he hehns his has the contracts in connecting some point on that thit river or one of its upper tributaries by bj rail with the Pacific a famous journey one of these days will willbe willbe willlie be lie to leave New York go to Para Pars by br sea then up the Amazon to the McCune railway from there over oYer to Lima IJima and Callao on the Pacific and thus thins another transcontinental highway will be open opened d dand and the tile commerce that will go by that route growing growing grow grow- ing jug with tI years will be something majestic before before be be- fore long and persons traveling over the road can get un anything thing they thop want from a mango apple to a silver sHyer bar oar and the they will see ee some somo of the most wonderful wonderful won won- tropical scenery on earth and they will sees see s some me other othel things which arc are nO not particularly encouraging en en- for the anacondas in that country in inthe inthe inthe the warm weather have a fashion of taking a twist around a a. tree on the bank of the river and then submerging the thc rest of their length i in iii the water and the tile healthy p on ones s grow nearly forty feet long And their squeezing accomplishments are arc something some thing astonishing They rhey can take lake a a. couple of winds around a bullock and crush all his bones hones They They- are a living proof that there is such a thing as a too warm varni embrace in this world |