CHAPTER IX

WATERWAYS AND RAILWAYS

Importance of River System--Existing Lines of Railroads--Pan-American Links--Lease of State Roads to Peruvian Corporation of London--Unfulfilled Stipulations--Law for Guaranty of Capital Invested in New Enterprises--Routes from Amazon to the Pacific--National Policy for Their Construction--Central Highway, Callao to Iquitos--The Pichis--Railroad and Navigation--Surveys in Northern Peru--Comparative Distances--Experiences with First Projects--Future Building Contemporaneous with Panama Canal 137