MESSRS MEIGGS AND Co.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1582, 3 August 1885, Page 2

MESSRS MEIGGS AND Co.

' A correspondent of the *Ota?o Wit n^Rs,' writing from Peru nnder date of lDth May, 1871, thus notices the work being carried on by the contractors named liv Sir Julius Yogel in his Statement : — There are many lines now in progress to tlip *«ilver Mines, generally ; s<»me distance inland, which in mo-t I c-tsoc a?-o private enterprises. The 1 principal cmi'ncfor for the (Jnverni incut i» a Mr Moiggs, of t?»o U nited ■ States, who at tin's prpsf.nt^Uwe has contracts ill hand to the extent *€jsD. 000.0-O of do' lavs, and who. on th* p% Janmrv. on the occasion of tbeiioenirtijf ' of or." of liis lin-s. a?»ont 300 miles flown the foas% irave an immensey*/'*. ; lasting five days, and costing 250.000 dollars, one of the fine steamer? of th»» ■ P.S. N". and Co. being chartered, which w;»s accompanied *»y all th*» ni'vwof war iin the port, containing the President and all the grandees of Peru. Engineers from all quarters are flocking ; around him, and with those at present :in his employ it is reported that before the end of February mo^ than a thousand of this profess-on will have arrived b\ Peru on the ch mce of obtaining work from this one man — Meiggs.