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miles, and only recently completed, requiring 
about 14 hours for the journey. To go to La 
Paz via Mollendo, or via Antofagasta is much 
longer in distance, requiring two days’ time, 
but repays the traveller in the magnificence of 
the scenery encountered all along the line. 
Roads are in process of construction from 
Potosi to Sucre, in order to afford an outlet 
for the products of the mines located in this 
vicinity, and from Uyuni to Tupiza near the 
border line of Argentine, so that direct com 
munication can be had with this country as 
well as Chile and Peru. Other roads are be 
ing built from Oruro to Banderani and Oruro 
and Cochabamba, also from La Paz to 
Yungas, from Yungas to Puerto Panda and 
from Cochabamba to Chimon. The govern 
ment also intends building roads from Ya- 
cuiba to Santa Cruz, and thence to Puerto 
Saurez. Connecting lines will be built to the 
famous Mamore-Madeira R. R. in Brazil. 
There is a perfect net work of rivers in 
Bolivia, located chiefly in the northeast and 
southeastern sections, many of which are