Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-12
Life in South America,

Star, By Solon c. Csesrier, of Barton,
s0ho aoas IN that country IN 1864, '65
and '66.
A letter from a country so far distant
from New England, respecting which
the information is so meagre, may not,
at this time be disinteresting. We as
sured you upon leaving, that such let
ter should be forthcoming, and now since
we have had opportunity from observa-
ton and intercourse with the people to
learn somewhat of the country. we will
give you short description Of its agri-
cultural and commercial advantages. of
its general appearance, and Of the pecu-
liar manners and customs of the native
inhabitants. At home, from our Geog-
raphies, we learn that there is such
country as South America, and such a
City and Province as Buenos Ayres;
that the principal business therein is the
expectation of wool, hides, and tallow;
that political revolutions form the basis
Of the government and thatvast extend
ed plains are the characteristic features
in the scenery; but when we desire in
formation beyond this, it is not at our
command. There is a prevailing idea
that it is to-day what india was years
ago-a place where fortunes can be ca
silly accumulated-but by what means
one asks in vain.
Like our Western States the Province
of Buenos Ayres is comparatively new,
and not until within a few years has its
agricultural wealth been developed. The
rapidly increasing ratio of emigration
and investment of foreign capital is fast
converting the plains into Estancias !;
placing at the command of the farmer
the implements of modern invention for
! tilling the soil Extensive fields of rip
ening wheat and maize give evidence of
It's fertility. There are thousands upon
thousands of square leagues of the rich
est alluvial camp yet to be occupied, up
on which countless herds of wild horses
and cattle Craze almost unmolested.-
But few years since, the Estancia upon
which We are located was upon the much
dreaded frontier the line of demarka-
tion between Spanish civilization and
the homes of the wild Indians of the Pam
pas. Now the frontier town of Pergam.
inos is fifty leagues to the westward. and
, far beyond this, Estarios with then
) flosks and herds have taken possession Of
the camp.
In respect to the mode of occupancy
! of the country, there is striking anal
, ogy between the West at home and here
r From year to year the Indians recedt
before the advancing tide, though no
without struggle and ere many gen
I erations have come and gone. they vii
read their doom among the towering
, SUBMITS of the Andes The Scotch ant
h Irish are the great wool growers of tn
J. country. Many Estancias of great ex
tent are owned by them. The enormou
/ percentage realized from capital invest
/. ed in certain classes of agricultural in
v terests, has attracted hitherward the pas
k year great emigration, especially fror
d Europe So increasing is the deman
for land that it has doubled in value an
! is still rising. From the States the nun
it ber of emigrants is comparatively few
.. Maine has the largest Representations
J. A gentleman from Montpelier called uI
IS on us few days since. He had SUI
le posed himself the pioneer from the Gree
m Mountain State, and great was his SUI
d prise to find his own neighbors fully e
tablished here before him. A lare
proportion of the business men are fo
|; eigners. French and English capital |
II a great extent controls the commerci
interests; builds the railroads and steam
v. boats, the hotels and store houses. E
0. cry class of business is as fully repr
sented in Buenos Ayres as in New Yor
m The Neapolitan organ grinder, with h
at monkey walks the streets, and the Anne
ican dentist with his forceps, reliev
10 the jaws of the afflicted. Hackmen al
@ draymen are at your service. Pilot
cf graphlsts on every street are prepared
= take your image.
tn The Geological formation of the Pro
at ince is alluvial The Parana and r
od de la Plata are the agents by which SUI
, so vast deposits have been effected. VIII
nv approaching the coast, long before sigh
le- ing land, the turbid appearance of t
st. sea gives indication of the immen
quantities OF matter brought down
os these streams, as might be inferred fre
AZ the method of its formation. for leagu
of away from the banks of these rivers
dy one continued. unbroken level, sa
III where sluggish arroyos have dug
,ot themselves channel, or the depressi
IS. where fresh water lagoons lay spar
ling in the sun and upon these lie,
ne plains is the sweet Gramisia, and 9th
ar 'r' varieties of grasses, the growing veal
le- of the country. Not a tree of indis
i'd nous growth, not a stone greets the e.
he Flowering herbs and shrubs give beat
ny to verdure and perfume to the plain.
~ ono iolrc for tbo l,v,,ru of chaAa