El Comercio De Bogotá. El Comercio De Bogotá Al Honda

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The image presents a news item called "El Comercio-De Bogotá. El Comercio De Bogotá Al Honda" Expensive.* mate: a thousand scant ones I present to you because of my rude adjective of old, because of the gray hair and the glasses, which seem to have gotten in the way for a while. I wanted to use the old man in the sense of ancient, and the gray hairs were only assumed, imagining that whoever has given way to the horses of Humboldt, Morillo and Sámano, could hardly comb them now. I do not allow your susceptibility to be surprised in this regard, because knowing that you have a heart that for its tenderness and goodness is equivalent to thousands, whether or not others are inveterate or hard, it does not matter to you. But, let's move on to the matter of your last of 12 of the present, which only requires an answer to a few points. The first is a supposed conversion to the great railway trunk in the state of Santander, which some compared to the use of the hair hat with quimbas. From where do you deduce such a conversion? The idea of Mr. Wiils was fought by saying that what matters to these regions is not the exchange of potatoes for potatoes by means of railways in the highlands, but the exchange of the productions of different climates, and that of nationals for foreign ones. what would not be achieved with the great trunk if upon reaching Old Age or the Manzanos it had to occur to the mules. I have said that the two great roads from Bogotá to the upper Magdalena one, and the lower one to the other are convenient for the interior; It is understood that you start from Magdalena upwards, which is where the great obstacle exists today, since in the highlands the roads are less bad than in the mountainous and warm regions, and the freight rates are relatively lower. In my humble opinion, there is no doubt that traffic by rail in the savannah and by cliffs and swamps in the mountains is equivalent to the use of the well-known hat with quimbas. I have heard that Colonel Totten is of the opinion that railways cannot be built on our Andean mesas, among other difficulties, because of not being able to bring locomotives to them, whose weight is several tons, and that they cannot be disassembled without very serious drawbacks. It would be necessary to start by setting up ironworks up here. And then great workshops to build those delicate and perfect machines on which the life of the traveler depends, which would suppose an industry as advanced as that of England, Belgium, the United States and France., And this in a country where it is not they make plows! A large trunk, if it does not have, like those of all trees, its corresponding roots, will not bear fruit, and it will be more useful to the lumberjack than to the farmer.

I'm not talking about freight *

He asks me if I'm serious when I say that the neighbors should take care of your composition, and his question seems like a joke to me. I believe that, with the exception of you, there will be no one who does not agree that if the neighboring roads were in charge, by virtue of contracts, of the repair and conservation of small sections, the damages would be repaired daily and at a negligible cost. I also believe that the neighbors have, in addition to the more or less general interest that everyone has in the good state of the roads, the very special one of keeping their legs healthy, their mules, cattle &,a &, only so I understand that someone on this earth could agree to respond before a juri for any charge that was made against him due to his culpable negligence, which is how page 136 of the Compendium of Jeology recommends that the composition of the ways.. You must have believed, since you say so, that your neighbors did make proposals to General Gutierrez to compose it, and that these were frustrated for the obvious reasons that you give. I know that one of those, who was strongly urged to contract the composition of Mave up, resisted it for fear of the government, despite having almost contiguous ownership of it. Mr. Rudecindo Rodríguez, who is composing the section from Guaduas to Pesquerías, was almost materially hunted down, linked up and brought to the government to celebrate his contract, having a friend of yours to take care of some painful procedures to commit him to encourage him. You are mistaken in believing that General Mendoza has invited me in vain to contract your composition, or to manage your funds &, well, although he has invited me for some details, it has not been in vain. A commission from my ranks lent itself to the invitation, and filled out the object of the invitation, came forward to present the idea that the Bogotá board of commerce should collect the tax on merchandise, which the general could not accept because the government did not allow it. , I read: but both he and Mr. Pinzon welcomed with interest the idea of presenting to the next legislature a bill that decentralizes the business that concerns you. Now tell me, if the obligation to contract compositions would be more bearable for me than for its neighbors, when I, despite having properties on the Magdalena, do not come down even once a year because of my services here, while the owners of lands adjoining you, they hardly stop stepping on it once a week Returning now to the question of ajio, I have not said that this is exercised by those who have mules for hauling along one part of the road and rent the necessary ones for the other part; What I have said, and I believe, is that there is a problem when the driving of loads is contracted to bring them on other people's mules, what happens, whether all the loads are brought on these, or that the driving of a number of them is contracted monthly greater than could be carried on own mules, even for only part of the way. For the rest, I have not claimed that the profit made in this business is unfair when there is no monopoly and there are many inconveniences with not a few risks. You have to entrust the Socorro prescribed it to drive loads for 50 leagues of a very bad road to freight, that they leave something more than necessary to cure the wounds on the mulitas, before thinking about what could happen to us if so many loads of descent transit through you As of rise, because if today, that those are missing, the slaughters cost us so much, what will happen to it when there is abundance? \ Let us now pass on to my assertive force that, in concept of what you call the public, daily converts each franc or shilling that I buy in Paris and Manchester, into an equal number of strong pesos. \ I ignore, compadre, the part that should be attributed to your bad condition, to those who steal my boxes, and to everything else that we have both already talked about, I limit myself to asking if you think it is possible for that miracle to happen today of the francs and shillings in pesos. Go through the six or eight streets where I live and count the importers, because that way you will be convinced that it is impossible, you say. Everyone has their warehouses full of merchandise and they fight to place them by lowering prices to the point that a merchandise import operation, which lasts a couple of years, does not cover the capital interest at 12 per 100 years. It is that you still have memories of yesteryear, when only two or three houses, such as Mr. Illingworth's, had in their hands the commerce of almost the entire republic, since then the merchants of Socorro, Popayan bought in Bogotá , Cali, Hondai even Medellin. So the trade was indeed succulent, which did not require the trouble of selling as small as today; And then yes, the shillings could be converted into pesos by taking cups of tasty wood with the buyers. Now when we achieve that more in crockery, hoes, beer and other things of that sort; And don't doubt, compadre, that such a business could be transferred, with good edging for bringing loads from the hold. You say that the public gentleman also asks if I want to work for nothing and sell my belongings at principal and costs. Will you be surprised if I take your word for it, at least as regards my little old cotton cloths? But the first question is unfair, because I have not pretended that those who exercise garlic do it for nothing, since I have recognized that garlic exists because of your poor condition, as there is a currency exchange office mainly because of cause of bad currency. Read my last letter again, and you will see that what I say is true. What is this that if I was wrong in terms of its legal status? Well no, do you speak your own name? I would have demanded the presentation of his power if he had spoken on behalf of another. Nor have I been mistaken about his person since I am addressing my compadre on the way to Honda. I believe that with this I am answering the second of his appreciable letters, and far from believing that my peace with correspondence is disturbed, I am pleased to place myself at your disposal as your most affectionate compadre. (NOTE. A few years ago, the import trade was the best business in the country, but then there were only 2 or 3 importing houses, like Mr. Illingworth, who handled the trade of almost the entire country and when almost the entire Republic bought in Bogotá, but today all the stores are overflowing with merchandise and they sell at retail, with which the profit margin is very narrow.) LA OPINION No.128 of July 19, 1865 Page 229 (3b)