Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — Got a Concession. [ARTICLE]

Got a Concession.

He burst into the office of a wellknown with his hands full of papers and called out: “I’ve got it! I-’ve got it 1 I’ve got the. biggest and most profitable enterprise on earth.” ’ “So?” “I have, and I’ll let you in for half a million and nothing less.” “A new canal?” “No, sir! I have a concession from the Mexican Government to build a railroad from Tarqua to Cinquaxa—a bee line 400 miles long!” “Let’s seel” mused the capitalist, as he brought out his map. “Here’s Tarqua and there’s Cinquaxa. ” “Yes.”

“And between them seven mountain ranges from 4,000 to 6,200 feet high, 100 miles of desert, 200 miles of wilderness, the Apache tribe of In 6 ran a and five rivers! My dear sir, sell me a half interest and I’ll throw in my patent right for a railroad suspended from balloons! It’s just the chanoe to see how it will work!” The man with the concession is now figuring on the cost of forty miles of tunnels and eighty-seven curves and 200 miles of blasting, but this shouldn’t deter Americans from making a gridiron of Mexico with railroad tracks. — Wall Street News.