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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 39, 22 January 1886, Page 11

Mr. Michael P. Grace, a Queen's County man, who was educated at Tullabe.g has, we perceive from the columns of a contemporary, just entered into a contract with the Government of Peru to complete a very remarkable railway from Lima to the ancient mines of Cerro Del Pasco. When its projector and builder died it bad cost Beven hundred livts and £6,250,000 to push it to the crest of the Andes ; and fifty miles of the line were yet to be bnilt. It has remained unfinished because no one would undertake the task of completing it. The Peruvian Government gives the road to Mr. Grace and bis associates on the condition that he shall carry it to its original destination and pump the water from the mines. The water has been accumulating for half a century, and the contractors are to have all the silver they can get for ninety-three years at a rental of £6,250 a year. These mines are the source of the ancient riches of the country ,and are believed to contain now the richest silver deposits un tbe globe. The ride on this road, going up swiftly from the sea into the clouds, is often fatal. To get accustomed gradually to the height wary traveller take two or three days to make the ascent, stopping over night at stations along the line. At Chiela, the end of the line, the traveller goes at once to bed, and is careful to avoid exercise as much as possible while on the summit. Mr. Grace is a brother of the Mayor of New York, the Hon. W. A. Grace, and-brother in-law of Mr. William Farrell, of Naae, a member of tbe well-known and enterprising firm of Richard Mylod and Co.. tobacco manufacturers, of this city.— Dublin Freeman.