Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-17
OUR NEIGHB0RS.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning
South and Central America.
THE Most Enterprising City in the WOrld"-A
South American Bank with S3''-
100000 Capital.
Correspondence Manufacturers Record.

Correspondence ManuIacVuFefs A'OO04o' l
swAMPscoTT, MASS, Aug. 23-ihe I
Manufacturers Record has had good :
deal to saw from time TO time about the f
trade of South and Central America, ana {
has repeatedly urged the Importance TO
the South particularly, of closer COM
rnercial reIations with these countries
This subsect is given unusual prominence !
now Che interest that attaches to the
.anpssjtehing Pan-American conference
wfScR will convene in Washington early
in October, and viii be made up OF aele-
pafes from the independent nations OF the
American continent, The main purpose ol
the conference will be to evolVs such
methods and laws and treaties as VIII
lead to a more extensive business De-
tween the American nations. Inc uel-
egates that have been appointed 10 rep
resent the United States are: John b.
! Henderson Missouri; Cornelius n. Bliss,
Knew York: Clement Studebaker, 1hal-
| ana; T. Jefferson Coolidge, Massachu-
! setfs. William Henry Prescott, SouLn
! Carolina: Andrew Carnegie, Pennsyl-
| yania. John R. @ Pitkin, louisiana;
| Norris NJ. Fstee, California, ana
! John F. Hanson, Georgia. The appoint
| ment of Ex-Governor Pitkin as minister
TO the Argentine Republic created va
! cancv in the delegation, and 1t was sug
gested that Mr.. 7. J Hurley OF fort
| worth. Tex, be appointed as repre-
saD+otive of the great Southwest. As
soon as his name was mentioned IN this |
| connection. the governor Of Texas, the |
! Governor of Nebraska members OF con- |
,rress bankers in the Eastern cities,
presidents of boards of trade and many
pa1reDaners sent TO President Harrison
and Secretary of State Blaine by wire
and mail urgent appeals for MT. huF-
ley's appointment. unfortunately
however, he has had to put an emu 10
these energetic efforts by the announce
ment that he could not serve. OF TINS
4oo+ was ignorant until l met him
dav or two ago, here at Swampscott,
where he is staying with his family, anu
on innuirv learned that an imperative
business trip to Europe will make II I'M
possible for him to accept the appoint
| ment. / spent the evening III MS COM
many and asked him a great many ques-
lions about South America. L gathered
from the conversation some exceedingly
Interesting facts. Replying TO inquiries
as to the industrial and commercial con-
di+iou of South American countFles'
+beir depree of civilization, ETC., he said:
GFzSq,here exists in our land a surprising
5gnorance concerning that mighty PENN
Il euIa vxhich contains the Amazon, the La
8 fsIaIa+AsHnd the Andes. 1t makes cos
Tn6bolitan smile TO hear our people DoaSt
about our snap and enterprise, ana COM
nlacently assert that we are the smarteSt
traders on God IS green earth, ana al thal
sort of thing. Why, there IS ely III
South America, commonly sup
l.ag8 bssed abode OF baroarlsh' LIZ.
in push and enterprise
of
, cities Fmean Buenos AyTes, the ,capl-
% toll of the Argentine Republic Trade
OF ceuters all over the world consider Bueno
ms Avres the most enterprsing city to-day
VI on the globe. Probably not one man II
no a hundred knows anything OF Bueno
at Avres OF the country of which 1t Is TIT
". caDftaI. or could tell, off hand, Jus
where they are. The population o
Buenos Ayres is now nearing the n1IiiloI
mark. In l886-67 1874 600 Euro
3 mean immigrants landed there
It's DoDulation is made up of natives
italians. French, Germans, English an
many Irish. the latter there, as here, be
mo influential in political and fnancla
affairs The city has 146 miles of stree
cars It has more telephones in propoI
ton to population than any other city
the world. 1t is considered the De'
LIGHTED citv IN the world. 1t mas eleNe
large banks, some of them occupElI
1oorbIe DaIaces. Two of them have
larger capital than any dozen BANKS CON
bined in the United States. Inc Dank
provence has Il paid-up CAPT tai
S3O 600 coo, a circulation of S23, OOO, OU
5anosi+s amounting TO $50 900 900, WI
loans and discounts to the amount
$40 600 600 The other national pal
has a capital of S22 900, GOO. tltty-sev'
large steamers month arrive and
mart. but not one of them flies the Anne
lean flag. The british goYernhe
sDeuds about $500 600 year ID suosldl
70 mail steamers to Buenos Ayres. AS
- consequence freight and many
the mails from the Unit
C+o+as to Buenos Ayres 60
liverpool. Enterprising Yankees shou
e, mediate on that. The Argentine X
~ nublic offeredat6 the United States to ?
half of a5s{tksidy of 5000 900 to be graz
- y senf government to line or Unit
states steamers to BuenOs AyTes. L
CITY has twenty daily newspapers. L
editor of one Of them, by the way
Winslow, the fugitive Boston Forge
SEQ who If is said, has amassed fortune
9o' nearly half q million. There are ma
nos other nte1prising and rapidly grow
gen cities in South America ard in Cent
America and new towns are coming Il
existence all the time.
seThe Argentine Republic is proDaI
the most progressive of the nations sol
NOT of us. Every head of family is EMIT
ebb nv law to $50 acres of land free, and
with much more as he may want TO purcna
lille 70 q limit of 1900 acres, at IS cents
ever acre. Or a settler may acquire l
sale acres free after five years, by plant
led 200 acres in grain and twenty-four &C
in timber. They also have free ira
= Dortation from Buenos Ayres to
Mace of location, exemption from
"a taxation for ten years; and the COVE
~ ment will loan them money, not exec
ing $1,000, at per cent. per annr
upon the cultivation of certain area
So land. and the erection of lmproyeme
6e of a certain value, As result OF IN
- liberal laws, overa million acres
- are added to taeagricultural area
I like for soBae Of our Texas mossOacks
are chew oHstalat fact.
'ecs5ssl sSFssrHere are 40 600 900 sheep gin
Il IN