The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957, October 13, 1907, SUNDAY EDITION, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textwft'Wjvi JWHHS t Pr w Wtr twyjHuc, WP T''MWIH ! i i 1 WW ,-HL. &5vr?c,C jazaBnwwwwr" tj-ttvse w THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1907. A) PDl DA p$ ..,, i V; V m. m- I 1 f 2 " trip to Ecuador s a 1 ttcr by A. C. Richards, General Freight Agent of Guyaquil and Quito Railway, to his Son. Hulgra June 2B0G Dear little Mankln: When I started on my trip to Quito Juno 9th. I took along a scratch pad bo as to make memos of all the strange things 1 saw, so as to Do able to write and tell my boy all about It, and I also make memos on the same pad covering a report I had to' make to the manage ment. Well after 1 had made my re port, which was nine pages long, I tore up the memos, forgetting that the most important part of the ivhole business, outside of my ex pense account, had yet to come, I. e., my report to you, so I will havo to trust to memory to not miss tho many strange, queer and odd things I saw and experienced. I left Hur grla, at mll0 73 from Duran, which place, Duran, you know Is across tho Guayas river from Guayaqulll Tind the terminus of tho railroad, at 1:30 In the afternoon and arrived at Cajabamba, Mile 131 from Duran -two hours late or at 7:22 instead of 5:22. Mr. Cash of tho Andean Trading Co. was good enough to meet mo at the train and I went to Ills tent for tho night, or such part of it as was left before the Raplda, stage started in the morning, he had supper all ready, but as tho train urew had asked me to eat with them at Colta, only three miles from Cajabamba, and by the way Is the liighest place on the now operated lino being 10,815 feat above sea level, I was not hungry, particularly as now is the quail season and we and Bomo delicious broiled quails, there was no toast or small "bot" however. Mr. Henderson, our gen oral manager, and Mr. Forrester, secretary to Major Herman, wore -with Mr. Cash, as they were there to meet tho president of the repub lic, General Alfaro, who was, with his party, occupying the private car, Elizabeth, which Is named after Major Herman's wire there enroute -with his daughters to Guayaquil to meet Mrs. Alfaro, who since tho late unpleasantness tho revolution which put General Alfaro again in power, has been living In Panama, I went around to the stage office and deposited my ticket, which cost sucre 10.00 as I was only going, in the Raplda, as far as Ambato, 30 miles from Cajabamba, as from there I was going to Quito, by easy stages, so as to study tho country with tho Inca Co's. paymaster, you know that the Inca Co. Is building tho road for the Guayaquil & Quito Hy. Co. Well I saw tho Chltro and gave him a sucre, which is the same as 50 cents in gold, so wo would not forget to call me, like the May Queen, "good and early" and ho sure did It, as at 3:45 he was knock ing at tho door, or rather the fly, of tho tent my but It was dark and cold you see Cajabamba is only 277 feet lower than Colta: I man aged to get a lamp lit and dressed and Mr. Henderson and Cash woke up and said good bye, Forrester had been reading half tho night so did not wake up. It was awful dark and I hollered at Ramon, Mr. Cash's boy nnd ho got a lantern and wo walked around to whoro the stage starts and found three or four al ready there, we managed to get tho proprietor of tho hotol(?) if one can call It by that namo up, and wo got a drink of mnyorca and a cup of coffeo and at 4:15 were on the road, I hardly mean on tho road, as wo seldom touched tho earth, but wo started C lnsido sitting opposite each other and I in front with tho driver and tho herder. I wished a thous and times that you and your mama wore along, as you would have en joyed It greatly and sho would havo screamed all tho time and helped tho mules along. Thoro were six mules nnd in tho 30 miles wo changd flvo times. Tho way they herded those mules was a caution. Don't think that thoy drovo thorn lor thoy did not. Tho steeper tho hill and faster wo wont tho mules Imd 40 Just fly to keep out of tho way uf tho coach so, It would not run over thorn. I don't mean that thoy walked. I don't mean that thoy trotted. I don't mean that thoy ran. I do mean that they ran away. Tho brako nnd the reins woro ornmnontB and not for use. Doth mon had long whips, ono for tho lenders nnd a shorter ono for tho wheelers, nnd they for the 30 miles kopt thonibolvos and the mules wnrm by tho most vlolont exorcise In tho wny of honoring, whistling and whipping tho imilOB. Curses did not count. Tho sharper tho curvo tho fnstor thoy tried to round It. Thoro woro two mules on tho polo and when it was light onough to soo, I found that tho mules nt encli side of tho 'polo had no brldlos on, only traces and u ropo collar. Thoy being tied by tho neck to each of tho polo mules. Now thoro was ono curious thing with all that fast driving, I mean herding, wo only bumped twice all tho way to Am bato. The mules seemed to know the road, which by the way was a very good one, and could on a dead run miss all the chuck holes. A little after 5 day broke and before us to tho left was Chlmborazo In all its glory. Tho sun tipped its summit of snow and that sight alono com pensated for the cold and tho thought that at any moment some thing might hnppen. You know that Chlmborazo 1b nearly 22,000 feet high. Tho high est extinct volcano on earth. Tho snow line extended half way to its base and I wish that I had the flow of language of Maurice Hewlett or that of McCauley that I might tell you of its beauty. It Btands out all alone a sentinel over a great plain silent, grand, beautiful, to its left, east, I mean right not loft, is Sana cajas Pass the highest point on the surveyed lino of the road from Duran to Quito, 11,800 feet high and on the edge of tho plain was the second stage stand, very ap propriately named Siberia. Tho road Carretera which runs from Alausa 88 miles from Duran to Quito, 287 miles as surveyed, la paved In many places and the pass Is 8 miles long and paved and the way wo ' flew ovor that part of the road was a caution. Tho Carretera was built by President Garcia Moreno in the 70's and Is suro a monument to his enterprise, as It averages about 10 meters wide the whole way and Is a very good road Indeed. There is a saying, and wo found it a true ono, that ono is never out of sight of human beings on the Carretera. It is simply lined all day long with Arrieros and their principal occu pation seems to be, aside from reaching their destinations, to keep out of the way of the Raplda and tho "automobiles. As soon as they saw us coming they commenced to hustle their mules and burros off to ono side of the road and as we were at what seemed to me to bo at the rate of 45 miles an hour. Very often we camo w'thln an aco of running into some animal or other. Once we did run into a man on horseback but never stopped to see whether he was hurt or not. From Sanacajas pass wo could see the snow capped Alter, a volcano that the crater has seemingly blown out of and left lovely Antlsana, and on a very clear day one can see Sangay and every now and then tho smoke that bursts from the crater every 15 minutes. Well we got to Ambato at about 10:30 and I took my grip and said good byo to tho very nice and con gonlal people who were my fellow passengers. Ono of them was a young officer and he had como from Guayaquil and had on cana pants, you know ono could not call tnem trousers, as thoy evidently cost less than sucre 4.00. He was laughing about their thinness and said next time he camo ho would put on all tho clothes ho had, and I don't reckon they would keep him warm as tho ofllcers-tho Equadorean army don't got much pay and I am told not very regularly at that. I took my telescope, that Japanese ono that your mamma let me get away from Durango with, to tno headquarters of tho engineers and was kindly welcomed. We made such quick time that they did not expect us for an hour or more so wore not at tho stage stand to meet us. Wo all went around to tho Italian hotol and had a very good dinner nnd I went to see an old friend of mine Sr. Lafltto, a Frenchman, who has a flour mill and Is rich and lias lived In Equndor for 3G years, but who is soon going with his family back to Franco to bring them up and to end his days. I wns asked by Mons. Lafltte to dinnor hut we decided to start and mako Sau MIguol, where tho engineers have another house, that night and wo did. Wo had a buckboard which made us sort of homesick for Arizona and I could not but romem ber tho trip your mamma and I took In ono 'befroo you camo on earth, through Arizona and tlio many and kind people wo met on tho trip. I found very soon that oiuig Mr. Rnkor, tho paymaster, had imbibed tho same way of driving ns tho stago pcoplo nnd u'wny wo went just as fast ns tho inulou could run, not gallop mind vou but run. You know that tho Carretera follows a basin, ns it were between tho oastern and wcat- ora Cordilleras. Tho valley Is about live miles wldo and has throo com paratively low passes In it from Cajabamba to Quito. First Sana cajas, then Cotopaxl nnd then Santa Rosa and a curious thing Is that onch pass or basin sends Its waters to the Atlantic and to tho Pacific. That of Sanacajas to tho Pacific nnd Cotopaxl to the Atlantic by way of the Amazon and Santa Rosa to tho Pacific. The two engineers who make their headquarters at San Miguel we had left at Ambato bo we had their rooms and a very good dinner and breakfast. They claim to have the very best cook of any of the engineers and it was real good. Wo changed mules at San Miguel and off we started. It was good and cold, at about 7 a. m. We soon got to Latacunga, the cap ital of the Province of Tungurara, and stopped ,a little while as I want od to see about some building stone which ultimately, I hope, will give tho railroad a considerable freight movement to the coast. These towns jare (all about tho same, Latacunga Is all built of stone, a pumice, and If they kept tho place clean would not be unattractive, but they don't. Dirt seems to bo second nature. Art has done nothing, while naturo has unsur passed herself. The road from Lat acunga to Manchachl, another town of about 20,000, is splendid and it was on this stretch that we had our only trouble. The -brenst Btrap of the nigh mule broke and the gentle man started off, going If possible faster than we were driving him. Wo Anally got them stopped and I got out and caught him by the head. Baker got at the head of the off mule. He said that he would get a piece of ropo that I had tied my telescope on with and the moment he let go of the bridle off went the two mules with the neck yoke dragging on the ground and dragging mo as well, bo I had to let go and off they went with the buckboard and my valise on the dead run, but within 100 yards they collided with a telegraph pole and skinned them selves from tho buckboard and away they went. You know that I have said that ono is never out of sight of someone on the Carretera so in a few minutes along comes a na tive boy leading them back. Two traces were broken, and both neck yokes. The hooks had pulled out of the singletrees but fortunately there was a relay station. Baker changed mules three times be tween Ambato and Quito. Quito was only about a mile and a half away so we hired the boy with his companion, to push the buckboard to the station and we led tho mules. My contract with Baker, based on a telegram, received In response to my request that he wait at Ambato for me, was that I was to buy all the drinks on the road. So right along side of the relay station was a sort of cantlna or tledahone, that Is not the way to spell that, and there happened to be just four bot tles of Guayaquil beer in stock which we immediately preemptied at one sucre per. Well wo got the young lady who was looking after the relay station and whos0 folks were away at another hacienda, to get us something to eat and after that wo bought a rope and used the one I had and finally patched up the affair and started. Wo soon camo to Cotopaxl Pass but it was cloudy and wo could not seo Coto paxl, the highest active volcano in tho world, and which was oft to our left 19,013 feet high. It rained and sleeted on us while crossing tho pass but wo both had coats and Baker had a rubber ponce to put over our legs. Wo soon got to Machnchi, a dirty looking place, and still had about an hour and a half before dark. Baker said the next place was Tambillo nnd that he did not know what kind of a hotel they had there. I said "Well we can't do much worse than here, so lets go on," and on wo wont in the rain. It was an hour and a half nftcr dnrk when wo got to Tambillo but wo did not slacken the pace any. Wo went on a dead run all the way and finally drew up In front of tho Grando Hotel Victoria. Wo had a relay of mules at Tambillo and as wo passed the statlonon the way to tho hotel wo hollered at the keeper and he came along and took tho mules out. Ho had n tlmo getting them unhitched ns tho harness and singletrees and neck yoko were all tied up In all mnnner of knots. ,1 wont Into tho place and asked If wo could stop all night and a very pretty nnd bright eyed young lady, Miss Izulla Montalvo. of course I did not know her namo then, said "Yes." "C:ih wo get something to drink?" "Yes." "Can wo get something to eat?" "Yes." So I hollered to Hi'ker who was still helping tho station man unharness, that wo woro all right and sure onough it proved to bo about tho very best hotel on tho whole road. Wo had a delicious supper, us sup pers go down this way, and good bods with clean sheets and for a (Continued on page 6) The Steamer M. F. PLANT Plniit sails Saturday from Marshfield. . . - No rescrvutlo n will bo held nftcr tho nrrlvnl of ship unless ticket Is bought. RS DOWAent MARSHFIELD, : : : : OREGON Portland & Coos Bay S S Line BREAKWATER Sails for Portland and Astoria every Thursday. C. F. McColIum, Agt. Phone Main 34 A. 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