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TIIBJALAPA. RAIL ROAD.—VERACRUZ.SMprlt;picwothttoris 1pelt;rifiwilthe(liddooilpnthlt;From Maj. Robert B. Gorsuch, who passed through this city yesterday on his return to Mexico to VeraCruz,—where he has been under an appointment from the Imperial Government, as Inspector of the Ja-iapa Railroad, —we gained information which will be interesting to our English readers.The railroad, projected between the cilies of Yer Cruz and Puebla, via Jatapa and Perote, commenced only a few months a go under a decree of the Imperial Government, of the 25ih of Ociob*r, ISGv, granting the privilege of construction to Don Ramon Zangrouis, is already well under way •, the track is laid to a distance of ten kilometres, or about six and a quarter English miles, from Veracruz tuwards Sta. Fe, by the way of Vergara. The rail adopted is of the same pattern as that used upon the Medellin road near the coast, and the Chaleo road in the valley of Mexico, and weighs fifty-three pounds to the lineal English yard. From Veracruz to Perote only horse power Will be used, and grades of eight feet per hundred have been adopted as the maximum. Upon the plains of Puebla steam will he exceeded four per cent.,—the limit, also, of the “Imperial Mexican Railway/’A cargo of rails for the Jalupa road, arrived in VeraCruz a few day ago, and the inroice of another has been received. Con* tra:c« for cr.»s3-ties have been made, and theprospect is that the work will be pushed for- m ward vigorously. | ryOwing to the adoption «f gra%les and curves which would not be admissible upon a road intended furs earn locomotive power, all that portion of the woik below the table*eh;frtob:theg*’inwhpeantindoanOViedhofobytocitVxivbtsi;htid may' be constructed at a small cost and j tj in a comparatively short time. The Gov- .intlihi|Aeib\\tros» •arlt;I eilcaeminent gives pecuniary aid to this enterprise in the a mo tin l t f 80,500 for eachkVlumetr-, advanced in sums of 832,500each five kilometres of the work are completed inspected and received by. th« engineer appointed for that duty,—this advance remaining a lien upon the road and its equipment5, hearing six per cent interest; ten percent, of the total gross products of the road to be set apart and applied to the liquidation of this debt until paid.The general health of Vera Cruz Ita?im- t] proved much within the last few tr-ck«. tSince the 41 norther of the 2!?ih ani 30th j nof last month,—which was a very unusual oceuVrencc for this period of the year,—the “vomkr” has abated in a very marked de- j gree. fH\e wind has lt;*miw from the north ! ^ several times during the present month,an I ; j-rontiuued from that direction from a few hours to a day at a time, allhouglfnot blowing a gale. There has also been more rain than during the preceding month. This [ very much reduces the liability to attack, but no one. unacclimatcd, is actually saf* from the dig ease.Mr. Brown, the engineer of the Jaiapa railroad in charge or construction, although having been a resident of Havana for aev* i*ral years, and in Vera Cruz during the present summer, was attacked with the uvo-milo” in a very bad form on the I4ih inst., and died on the might of the 18tli. Others having arrived from abroad within the last fortnight have been attacked, but are now convalescent or else have favorable symptoms. ’Just at this time the disease does not assume its most virulent and fatal type Yet at this season and until the regular “’northers” at the fall and winter months, strangers obliged to go to or pass through Vera Cruz should spend as little time in the city a« possible. Those having a fear or dread of the disease had best not expose themselves to its influences.CIIIIIi«i8.[The Mexican Ratlvay Era.]
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Mon, Aug 06, 1866
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