Show the dig railway scheme to conned Ain trica 1 figmic boff 0 FOOT th Colom lla railway and corn flam bif organization lion ili cisxek OB earth WHEELING W va dec 20 in view of ita great importance as growing out of the that the pan american congress and its gigantic proportions as a railway enterprise ter prise the recently incorporated colombia railway and navigation company at richmond W va is likely to prove a sensation in commercial circle the following explanation of the plan as gained from parties directly interested will alpar in to morrows wheeling alie purpose of the company is to construct railroads in america steamship lires connecting these railroads with points in the united states aad incidentally everything necessary to properly carry on such business the companas comp anys capital is to be ard captain parsons of virginia is at the head of it briefly the aims of the colombia and navigation company ara as follows to construct a line of railroad from some point near the month of the madalena rn er in the united atutes of colombia along the casern bank of the andes and head vv aters of the amazon to points in peru there to connect with the perm plan and argentine system of railroads from the mouth of the mag dalana river steamships will be ann to alie bouthern part of florida and to new orleans from whence will extend railroad connections to all parts of the country the vastness of the enterprise con is thus apparent A continent pru baby the richest in material resources of all the continents in the w orld is to ba opened up to the purpose of commerce immigration and tion its products and people are to be brought into easy communication with thereat of the world and last of all direct and lasting benefits thereto accrue captain H C adeon whose home is now at natural bridge virginia is the originator and controlling spirit of the enterprise it is by no means the first difficulty and hazardous under taking in the railroad line ha has been engaged in though others w ere as when compared with this for fifteen ear captain parsons has given the subject north and south of of the line of railroad in south america his attention he has traveled and investigated and examined surveys cf the country and collected information of all kinds until he has demonstrated the f aai ability of his great project and at last brought it to the point of realization in to obtain a more thorough organization and secure heartier cooperation the have been selected and will shortly ba named in all the states when this has bea done and the organization completed by the election of olli cers etc subscription books will be opened and the practical work of making surveys and estimates inaugurated at once the only part of the proposed route winch is unknown and unexplored is between the sources of the slag lalena and rivers over the dividing ridge of the cordilleran cordilleras Cordi lleras in ecuador hero the mountain chain must be crossed in order to bips pips from the val ley of one river to that of another and in addrion add tion to natural are the fierce savage tribes who have hitherto resisted attempts to explore their country the northern terminus as now proposed will be furt car on the sea craco and Cerro pasco in peru the distance between them being about tao thousand miles half of which is along streams navigable by flat bottom steamers the road will trave ee alie pampas del sacramento perhaps alie richest agricultural region in the world will skirt the largest gold and silver mines and penetrate forests of untold value at the Bool hern termini a junction mil be afforded with two peruvian lines of railway and a railroad for buenos ayres on the atlantic which road is already in operation lor four hundred miles to alta on the headwaters of the la plata river thus diu erent outlets to the ocean w ill bo secured for products at present inaccessible at cuzco and cerro pasco ia found the heart of the gold and silver mining region which has been popularly reputed to be enormously wealthy in minerals and where it wa claimed by some of the old church writers waa really the ophir of king solomon the development of peru in the past has been very slow and at great cost its thirteen hundred miles of railroads have cost lie state per mile the most costly in the world this constructed portions these lines have al eady been largely paid tor by the royalty of guano beds what would hi the result of the rapid and complete development of such resources na it contains can be better imagined than almost aa much maybe bald for everyone of the states through which the proposed road is to anis in conversation with an associated pread correspondent captain barrons dwelt at length upon the element of uncertainty which most enter into the problem on account of the unknown region in croe aing the cordilleran cordilleras Cordi lleras whether man can do has never yet been done is a problem which the companas comp anys engineers will have to dolve in the near future it must ba clear said captain damone to the casual student of the matters involved that this or bome ia the only practicable channel by which wares can be carried in competition with those of aurore to the heart of south america it offers the pea ibo maos m aos of competing in time with the trans at alantic lantic steamers and lafiata system of boats liy this means the traveler will bo able to make the from lima the capital of peru to new york in nine days at lima he will be only thirty hours bv from valparaiso at new york he ia but beven avs from liverpool from chili to england in seventeen days if it be true that the united states with ltd pan american rec probity treaties is becking its chief market in south america it would appear that ahe can best cod not at rio de janeiro not at ayris not upon the coast fronting england nor upon the narrow arid plains of the upper pacific coast but by piercing to the center of the nut and at once extract the kernel the for eign nations are looking for an opening on the of the imposts to central america from the united states sin francisco now skims the cream because the difference in freight from there dawn san francisio a cheaper buying market than new york the new railway mil reverse this and new york bill supply not only the eastern but the entire western coast of central america the short cat or steamers will be pats cape hatteras Hatte rag through florida straits around the west end of cub and fouth to tha docks 0 puerto barries this will bare an immense advantage over the panama route C B I 1 change 1 CHICAGO dr 25 general fra agent paul morion of the chicago burlington quincy will leave the service of thaL company and take the position of vice president and general exe etive of the colorado fuel and coil co no piny of illinois ilia successor on the burlington will be thon as miller at present general freight agent of the burlington missouri river roal at omalia it is understood der stood that idillar will by G B crosby at present assistant general freight a en at denver thi dontai aej cantral NEW dec 26 judge patterson of the supreme court today to day handed dawn a in the snit of certain stockholders of the old houston and texas central railroad Hail road company continuing the injunction re the central trust romping rom piny C P huntington and othere from issuing stock of the rn organized houston and texas central company the plan of reorganization provided that stockholders might have an ecial amount of stock in the new company upon the payment of seen ty three per cent it they did not come in on thee terms the south irn pacific comply aa to have the privilege of taking the shares on better terms andie patterson Patter sou says in ills decision that it is apparent tha and his associates to acquire alie ownership of the railroad in oder to beahe it a tributary to their own lines toe old are entitled to the details of the indebtedness and in order to make any judgment he ts the distribution of stock to a new corporation until tha trial of the action and parrs dec 28 the epidemic of influenza has assumed a graver cyp and many casts are noa complicated with pneumonia in consequence of the constantly increasing crowd at the hospitals the authorities lire erecting tents for tha undertakers are overworked and many em aloyes are down in consequence of the increase in the number of funerals the system of draping churches ith enormous banninga ban ginga of black and various other woe as well agthe parales have been dispensed with the week gnes moe deaths than for the preceding week saili into LONDON dec ac the united states enterprise Enter arrived at gibraltar she had several laes la es oi lenza on hoard and was quarantined she did not wait to enter and therefore proceeded westward A fidfl on wednesday destroyed the of the new zealand steamship company at sidney new donth sonth gaea together with a large quantity of stored produce |