Word: pasco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Louis Terah Haggin, 81, of Manhattan, president of Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., son of the late famed James Ben Ali Haggin ('Forty-niner, racing man, hops and sheep raiser, mining tycoon, connoisseur), uncle of Artist Ben AH Haggin, onetime designer of living tableaux in the Ziegfeld Follies; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Salt Lake City-Pasco...
There is, on the Andean plateau in Peru, a standard-gauge railroad owned by an American mining company (Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.) connecting their camps with the main line of the Central Railway of Peru at Oroya...
...main line of this railroad (Cerro de Pasco Railway) is 132 kilometres (about 80 miles) in length and every foot of it is over 12,000 feet above the sea. Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea. Quite a way up in the air-far above the Moffat road's modest 11,600 feet-but let us consider the Central of Peru, which was- and probably still is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...Boston to New York, via Hartford; 2) Dallas to Chicago and six stops: 3) Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, via Las Vegas; 4) Elko, Nev., via Boise, Ida., to Pasco, Wash.; 5) Seattle to Los Angeles; 6) Cleveland to Pittsburgh; 7) Chicago to Minneapolis and St. Paul; 8) Miami to Atlanta, via Tampa and Jacksonville...