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Jk. Great Enterprise! —James P. McDonald, a New York (contractor, is the man selected to be \at the head of the great engineering (enterprise of building a railroad across *tho Andees from Ouyaqull to Quito, (Mr. McDonald's experience In railroad building has been wide und va-irled. Many thousand ties have been !laid and many hundred miles of steel trails fastened under his supervision. (Dorn In New York, he prepared for college in the south, and finally took his .degree from the University of Ten-juessee. The road from Guyaquil to iQuito, which he is now engineering, la to be but 300 miles long, but the difficulties in the way muke the task one requiring unusual perserveranco and knowledge, and Involving enormous •expense. Fully $25,000,000 will be required to carry this great project to 'conclusion. Stone work and masonry that It is necessary to use to a great jextent are largely responsible for this heavy outlay. At many points along the route the road bed will reach an relevation of 13,000 to 14,000 feet above the sea level. Though there are at present but 1,500 men pushing the work forward, this number will soon 'be swelled by 5,000 native Jamaicans, with whom Mr, McDonald Is now contracting. Sixty-five hundred half-clad natives dii.gently plying ax, hammer, pick anu shovel will Indeed be a scens worthy of the Yankee push and in-JAMES P. M'DON ADD. dustry which Is behind It; and theso inen work, too, as contentedly as though they never had a eare In the world, yet their wages conge to a tmeager |l.2a a day In the sliver cur-Tency of the country, which Is the (equivalent of much less measured by tho gold standard, and wages have •been lately raised at that. Twenty American engineers, the sort that you read about in Richard Harding Davis* ‘'Soldiers of Fortune, accompany Mr. McDonald. Young men. who will themselves, perhaps, carry on even more gigantic enterprises somo day.
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Lamar Register
Lamar, Colorado, US
Wed, Oct 17, 1900
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