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Show H According to this description, this road, when H fully completed and in commission, will carry H down such mighty stores of tropical products as H -will give fame to two or three states, an empire H of such productiveness that it will, in some re- H spects, change the lines of commerce. Indeed, B the. city of Para, at one of the mouths of the H Amazon, is spending millions of dollars to pre- H pare for the coming commerce, it expecting to he H the place where the products that come down by H boat will be transferred to ships. H Among all these products the one most H counted upon for revenue is rubber. Since the H advent of the automobile and the apparent im- H possibility of using any substance but rubber for H tires, the demand is so increased that now men H do not dream of grape fruit, oranges, or pineap- H pies, or bananas, but their rage is for a rubber H ranch. H And that teads us up to what we began to Hj say at the beginning, which is that out in Uintah H county, in Utah, there is a deposit, the technical Hi name of which we cannot at this moment recall, H but out of which rubber is made which in a lit- H tie manner, at least, is much superior to that H found in the market. For instance, a hose made H of it will last longer and stand a much stronger H pressure than the hose of commerce. And there H is enough out there to supply the world, and there H are no anacondas, no cougars, no parrots and no H excess of water; indeed, water is so limited a H compound in that region that most of the people m have ceased to use it. H And that is only one of the slumbering enter- H prises which will burst into wonderful life when M the Moffatt road comes through one corner of it. It now is sixty miles from transportation, and it m might be as well six hundred. m At the same time, there is no doubt but what H that heart of South America at the head waters H of the Amazon, the Madeira, the Mamore, that M region in central South America which is bigger H than the state of Texas, has, within its possibili- V ties, sufficient to give employment to, and to sus- M tain the life of the people of an empire. H) We suspect our friend McCune is down there H pushing his road which is to go east from his M mine in Peru to some navigable point on the ' Amazon, and that the chances are that within five M years from the present date, if he lives and es- m capes the anacondas, the crocodiles and the par- B rots, he will be a new Pizarro or Bolliver in m South America, the political and financial boss H of all that interior magnificent country, the last m remaining empire to be opened to the world; be- 1 cause, really, wlia. that road will bring down will B cover nearly all the products of the earth. It K was built to transport copper, but up in eastern M Bolivia there are magnificent silver and gold mines H which have lain dormant through the centuries be- m cause of want of transportation. Then there will M be the diamond fields to flank the road on the m southeast; then the agricultural land which will H prpduce everything tMt grows out of the earth; HLi With the result that with the opening up of that road there will be places for millions to work, and it will be possible to produce products which the whole world wants, and for which there Is an unlimited demand. And if our congress and our rich men were half as bright as they imagine they are, they would want to be down there and have a hand in that development, because what is grander on this earth than to create, and make potential, an empire of land that before was given up only to wild beasts, crocodiles, snakes, and gorgeously plumaged birds? |