Show DO uON TINN IS thousand mile line from hudson bay to patagonia planned PH g fless IN 11 THE PROJECT L several sections already have been bee n completed american investors are invited to aid dream of fifty years h ew 10 fork rk R realization eal iza tion of the dream of a railroad from bay to prita conla has been brought nearer its as a result of the recent pan american financial conference in Wash washington logton according to charles II at pepper who in im 1003 was appointed ly by president roosevelt to visit the several countries from mexico southward and report on the project A journey by rail from the arctic cecle cl cle to the tip of south america approximately ten thousand miles could bo made under good traffic conditions it has been estimated in sixteen to eighteen days at present twenty four days are required for the mile sea voyage from new york to buenos aires this dream of a trunk line running almost the entire length of the he two american continents was born in tile brain of blinton nioton rowan kowan helper a writer and former united states const consi in south america more than fifty years ago the late united states senator henry Gai gassafy Gassa wy baals oi of west virginia a practical railroad builder saw its feasibility feasibility and with andrew Cur negie and other wealthy liy americans gave the idea a fresh impetus james G blaine also an once L advocated it takes definite form the project rec received elied first definite fortu form fit at the international american conference held in mexico city in 1902 1002 which appointed a permanent run ran american railway committee composed of prominent citizens of the united states and diplomatic officials ol of latin american countries resident in washington former senator davis and mr carnegie were members of it in the eighteen years since the plan was indorsed endorsed Indor sed by the mexican conference explained sir pepper in ills report considerable progress has been made in joining up various railway sections chile lias has completed the longitudinal on line from puerto blonett in the south to the railways in the north which form junctions with the malu main trunk of the lie pan american system the Tran sandean line from valparaiso to buenos alres aires also has been completed while the lines joining the DrIzI lInn systems radiating from rio do de janeiro have been finished so that they form junctions with uruguayan and argentine lines the argentine line was finished to the he southern border of bolivia tit at la dulaca several years ago while bolivia has closed up most of tile the links in her pan american trunk line there thera are now loss less than miles in bolivia to be completed some of which la Is also graded in order to provide through railway connection from buenos aldei to la paz and to the pacific it would cost approximately to complete it bolivia to get loan the group committee on bolivia at the recent pan amerlean american financial conference recommended recommend eil that n loan be granted bolivia for the he purpose of completing this link it was explained that the gauge was the same as that of the argentine lines and an arrangement by which bolivia could use argentine rolling stock was suggested the war it is said has made it virtually impossible for european countries to continue their financing of south america and tills this Is why delegations from colombia peru chile brazil ecuador uruguay paraguay and other south american lands have visited the united states in recent years to awaken american investors to what they call a big investment opportunity the proposed trunk line would run from the united states through mexico central america colombia E ecuador cuador peru almost the entire length of chile and from la quiana quiaca Boli bolivia viat to buenos aires from this main line would be connecting roads some already completed extending like fingers in many directions toward the atlantic ocean |