Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1913 — Line Through Wilderness. [ARTICLE]

Line Through Wilderness.

Buried hundreds of miles from civilization, its nearest source of supplies 1,500 miles away, the MadeiraMamore railroad, connecting Brazil and Bolivia, Is to that part of the world* what the panama canal will be to the east and the west. It was built to overcome 200 miles falls, rapids, rocks, and shoals in the Madeira river, which had compelled rubber handlers to make use of a costly and unsatisfactory method of portage. Although built through a tropical forest, the ties on which the rails are laid came from Australia, because it was time and again proved cheaper to import them than to try to hew down for that purpose the hard but resistant'woods close at hand. Trains are run regularly between the terminals of Porto Velho and GunparaMlrlm.