Show CONSTRUCTION OF PERUVIAN ROAD I Halbert S. S Kerr Tells of Line Built at High Altitude PUSHING T TO EAST COAST AST Modules Module's Cerro de tie Pa-co Pa Will ill ill Cro CIO i the Andes 4 and 1111 Descend Descends ll l s to tu the Atlantic Halbert S. S Kerr rr chief engineer o othe of the thc Cerro C rio de e Pasco railroad In Peru arrived cd In Salt Lake yesterday on a three e months' months vacation after superintending superintending tending the building of or the highest railroad In the world As A. A W. W McCune McCune Mc- Mc Cune of Salt Lake Is tho the principal owner and mann manager er o of the Cerro de do dePasco C Pasco mines there Is no small amount amoun of local Interest In the South American Ameri can properties now In III course of de development d i and hero ther nas een much conjecture as to the probable outcome of or the Uw Vast east mining venture In openIng openIng opening open- open Ing properties In the heart of oC the thc Andes Ande mountains that have o been worked work work- ed eti for 01 centuries un under r primitive metho methods s. s The most positive statement ma made e h by Mr Ir Kerr Jerr I last t night was that the work 0 as completed complete so 10 far had haO left no question as to tho the financial success of the enterprise There have ha been bee some delays In returns on the Investment on account of oC th time the peculiarities s of the ores and I the necessity for 01 devising special methods metho s In reducing them said stid Id Mr Ir Kerr Ken The Tiie ore is there in vast ast quantities quantities quan quan- titles and anel of high grade rade The railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road I H Is completed and rea ready for all nil business Smelters Smellers have ha been bulls bull and ind equipped and the coal problem Is settled tI by the opening of good gool mines nines with railroad connections The melters with a n capacity for fOl tons toms of sf ore ole a day lay were wre practically completed completed com corn last January but they thoy ha hay hav been jeen running irregularly irregular because of or orthe the he experiments that mu must t b be c carried on n to ascertain the most economical wa vay ay o of extracting the ore Extending the tho Road It Is probable that the Cerro de dc dePasco e Pasco railroad will vill be ext extended some one ICO miles atiles eastward to connect with the he navigable nl waters to the east coast ot of f South America This extension would be of great greal benefit to the gov- gov ov- ov eminent of Peru as well as to the tho railroad company and in view of or this lh he the go has hns ma made e propositions to o the company that will In all ability result in th the construction o of the he additional line This would open up LII ip a vast territory In Peru which has wonderful possibilities possibilities' for wealth that have been undeveloped because of a alack lack ick of transportation facilities The proposed line will run through h a great agricultural country and will Ill also open up p a largo larga expanse e or timber lands Pre recent ent conditions in Peru are such that hat with the west vest slope of the Andes Andel P Tactically practically r C I devoid old of or the sup sup- ply of the count country is being shipped from rom the United States On the east cast slope of the mountains timber Umber Is plen plen- Rond Hoad at nt High Altitude The Tue Cerro ro de Pas Pasco co railroad leaves the Peruvian Peru Central at Arroyo an and exten extends s to the eastward for a distance of miles through a n highland valley valley val Yal- Ie ley with a branch to the coal properties properties properties proper proper- ties of or the company compan rhe The lowest point pointon on the railroad is feet above sea level le nn and the hI highest hest feet while tho average elevation of tho ho road Is feet Of OC course at such an altitude steam for the locomotives locomotives' Is IB generated at a lower temperature but It is necessary to have havo a larger grate grute surface to procure perfect combustion of ot the coal These two features ab about ut offset each other and the cost CONt of operation operation operation oper oper- of or the road Is about the tho same as ason on oil lower levels Central which Is la I On the Peruvian inn miles long there are 52 tunnels and 75 j 5 per cent of the thc road load was vas as constructed constructed constructed con con- by heavy rock work worl This roa road was one of the most expensive Ive IveIn In n the world to build but the con con- of tho the Cerro de e Pasco road was much easier casler The main maln line lino of this his road was built hullt through a hIghland highland hIgh hIgh- land and valley and the principal difficulty difficult t ty encountered was wag with marsh ground and peat peal beds unexpected at ot such an altitude but bul ne erthe nevertheless q difficult to overcome o The construction of ot the ic coal branch of the road was extremely difficult as It was through a rugged count country nn and on hea heavy grades McCune's Fight Regarding the trouble between Alfre Alfred Al Alfred Al- Al fre fred McCune and the miners In one of or orthe the tho Peruvian villages that nearly neary cost the life American Mr Kerr said It was only local and M so 10 far as the government an and the better class c of or citizens Is concerned they are favorable favorable favor or able to the Investment In of QC American capital and antI the development of the country country- count Alfred McCune arrived e In New York la last t Friday a and was met h by 13 his father on the day a Mr Kerr left for or Salt Lake The two are expected to arrive here next week Mr 11 Kerr w was registered reg at aL the Wilson Wil 11 son wn last night and will leave to join his family in Main Manti I this morning |