About a mile above this point, after passing Chiclín, the train crosses an immense iron bridge, about three thousand feet long, over the Chicama River. The route then lies entirely through the district of the sugar lands, the principal stations being Chocope, Constancia Junction, Casa Grande Junction, Facalá, and the terminal station of Ascope, fifty miles from Salaverry. From all these stations, private railways connect with the sugar plantations. The Hacienda of Roma is connected directly with the port of Huanchaco by a private line, making an extension of thirty-five miles. This immense property, like the estates of Casa Grande and Cartavio, embraces many thousands of acres and supports large communities of working people. Life presents a very pleasant picture on these large plantations, where a good climate, healthful labor, comfortable homes and ample provision for their needs contribute to make the employés contented and happy. Churches, schools, and hospitals are provided, and on some plantations there are free libraries, and night classes are taught for the benefit of those who work during the day. Telephones connect the haciendas with Trujillo, and, as most of them are situated within a couple of hours’ ride by railway from that city, constant communication is maintained. The Casa Grande Company owns one of the most important sugar estates of the Chicama valley, covering nearly two hundred thousand acres of land, and supports a population of about five thousand, most of the number living in the vicinity of Casa Grande. The machinery used in the sugar factory of this hacienda is of the most modern manufacture, equal to the best in existence for the purpose. Electricity is used for lighting, the hacienda having a dynamo for two hundred lights of sixteen candle-power and a motor of twenty-five horse-power. The new system of crushing and elaborating the cane in the factory of Casa Grande is so complete that the process follows automatically from the unloading of the cars as they arrive from the fields, to the filling of the sacks with sugar, ready for market. Not only in the factory, but in the fields, modern machinery is used, and agricultural implements of the best manufacture are employed. This is true of Roma and Cartavio as well as Casa Grande. The resident managers of these haciendas enjoy every comfort that a well-ordered establishment can provide, and they entertain with generous hospitality. [Illustration: THE CHAPEL OF A HACIENDA AT GALINDO.]