Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

long current among the native races. 1t
only remains to add that he first attracted
attention as editor Of La Prensa of Buenos
Ayres, the paper of largest circulation in
South America, and as he is accepted all.
thority ON agriculture in that country his
opinions on the future are of value to us.
Everybody knows that Argentina (poet-
cal na1no of tho country as Columbia is
IT ours) is the United States of South
1merica, consisting of II federal states
md nine territories; that it is unique
7nong Spanish-American nations in hay
ing a population of unmixed European
stock (there is much less admixture than
In this country); that it's capital, Buenos
Ayres, is called the paris of South Amer
tca,' and that it is fast becoming our for
midable rival i'll the export of food prod
ucts to Europe. 1t is not SO we'll known,
however, that a few years ago it had a
regular western Yankee boom, with all
the phenomena seen in this country in
lS6S-73 on an exaggerated scale, such as
paper money galore, great subsidies to
railroads, assisted immigration, Credit
Mobiliers and speculative bubbles to make
a man dizzy, and that tho collapse double
discounted ours. but we arc coming up
again." said DR.. Zeballos, and on q very
NAN Da"oAo' OtA SouAUIy ! . wv uSW, UOO
large, too rich III natural resources Of ev-
cry kind, to halt long, and it is a land in
which man can attain and preserve his
greatest possible health and energy"
A Great Country.
II should be pleased to have your latest
figures Oh the products for this year,"
'Ah, but you must get the basis first.
Start with this: That we arc the purcst
h1NO1n1 J1OnIlDtic, VI, f,o rroe+orr, ,.-t;
nent, except it may be Canada. We have
fewer Indians than you and no negroes,
not 500 in tho whole country. Indeed
there arc many sections in which one is a
curiosity. We arc now nearly 5000, 900 of
pure European blood. The national cen
sus will be taken next spring, but I csti-
mate by our ordinary growth from the
last census, and there is very ample room
in the country for 100, 900, 900 people be-
fore 1T is as thickly settled as your Oldest
states. We have almost 1000, 600 Italians,
and there are not quite half SO many of all
other European born, French, Spaniards,
Germans, Swcdcs and English, and we
are now receiving about 1870, 600 immi.
grants a year. l may say that in climate
our main area corresnonds with YOURS from
Canada to the gulf, only our" most north
ern province runs a little into the tropics.
and there altitude more thar offsets lati.
tude, but of Stands we own away up south
into the polar regions"
What do you anticipate in the way Of
increased production and exports within a
few years?"
swell. l will put the main fact right
plain, and you need not bother about par.
t~iculars, which fact Is that you cannot
compete with US for many years. Our
land averages far more fertile than yours,
is virgin and developing with the advan-
tage of your experience. OF wheat we
speak of the last crop as 100, 600, 900 BUSH
els and this year it will be 100, 600, 600
bushels, Of which we shall export nearly
one-half. Now we speak of our territory
as in round numbers 1900, 900 square
miles, and If you will look at this map
you will see that nearly all of it which is
wheat growing is within 100 miles of tide
water or the great navigable rivers. Else
where the railroads are penetrating, and
you see by the lay of the country that get.
ting the crop to tho coast is but a tri1le.
The area sOwn is almost exactly 5000, 900
hectares. "a hectare is en- acros). OF
maize u crop this year may be l, 100, 900
tons, Of which we will export over 30, O0O,-
600 bushels. Now consider our small pop
%ulation, and the vast area we have yet to
develop, and the easy reach Of tide water.
and you have really all you want, but OK
cuss me from particulars, for I have writ.
ten a book on the trade relations Of our
country, and especially it's relations with
this oon:try and England, and that book