Evening star., 1898-12-03

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,GR48~ this letter is publish
SSN#s5a& cd hundreds Of ocean
YNlMYTAS steamers rilI b an
AsAh chorc1 under its
bluffs loading this
years crops for Europe Rosario is situated
on the Parana river about 1o0 mil, $
by land from Buenos Ayres. 1t is three
hundred miles by water from that city,
and about as far inland from the Atlantic
ocean as Pttsburg. Ocean steam rs sail
for two hundred miles up the Rio d. la
Plata past Buenos Ayres into The mouth of
the PaTana, and then Tor about three INN
,ired miles up the river to Rosario. The Pa.
rama at this point is mighty sire I'M. 1t
has many islands. and il Is very wide Its
channel is 50 deep that STEAMERS drawing
sixteen feet can reach Rosario at any tine
Of the year. and they come here from all
parts of the world for grain.
Rosario Itself Is one OF m thriving towns
of the Argentine. 1t was founded about
1IJ years ago. but wheat raising in the Ar
Seutine gave it "A great boom, and will hin
the last ten years il has almost traDlad its
population Il has now about 1JH.nn peo-
pie IL is well built. the streets crossing one
ttS'NAi't at LEttN tliSitS II mas S)nt nbIclS
daily newspapers. electric lights. telephones
ana banks II does big wholesale and re-
tail business, hut ths most % lis money
mes from wheat.
Loading " heat at Rosario.
The warehouses are along the river and
the wheat is, l venture, taken from the
cars To the steamers more cheaply at RO.
sario than at any other point in the world.
The land about here is deep aIluviaI soil
which has been carried down from the
mountains by the streams Of the Rio de. In
Plata system. Through This soil the farana
mas cut its channel 10 such a depth that
the bluffs upOT which The city stands are
at least seventy feet high. They are pre-
clpltDuS. and Rosario is Duilt clear to their
edges, go that the warehouses are higher
than the masts of the steamers floating OF
the river. All along the banks Of the river
warehouses have been built. They are
made OF gray galvanized iron. They have
railroad tracks running between them and
the edge Of the bluff and much Of the
wheat which is carried in the cars -
transferred to the ships without going into
the warehouses. The transfer is male hy
gravity. Each shipping company has a
long chute running from the edge Of the
bluh. and often from the warehouse itself
down into the river. These chutes are made
IN sections, and are SO arranged that they
form trough running from the bluff right
into the holds of the steamers. Some Of
she chutes are sections Of iron which can
." hung on wire cables making an iron
chute from the hold to the warehouse, 80
arranged that It can be lengt hened or snort.
fnet at will
The wheat - baGged on the farm. The
ears carry it TO the edge of the bluff
and Italian laborers take the bags and
r;ch them into the chutes. AS soon as
q bag tous hes the chute it begins 20 de-
-cend. and It fairly gallops down the in-
ri1et trough into the stea mcr. Tie ba Ks
HN d0Wn one after the other at the rate Of
several to the minute, and az ypu look at
he n No 10 p
Galoping mice and you remember the horde
which attacked the cruel Archbishop Hatto
III his island in the Rhine.
Poor Railroad Facilities.
At harvest lime the wheat becomes con.
Gested at Rosario. The railroads have
moIe than they can do u carry the crop
ana almost all other traffic has 10 b.. sus-
pended. There are not enough ears for The
business. There is here no such sys.
tenn of Interchange Of cars as we have
IN the United States one ConpJny's cars
cannot go over the tracks of other com
ran:es- The result iS that the wheat is
piled mp in bags at the stations and left
lnrFe until II can be shipped. | saw such
piles in different parts II The Argentine
rs Net there are compare lively few ele-
NatprS and tn caring for the wheat is af-
Ter the most wasteful methods. Tbcpe arc
no barns IN the Argentine. The :, Gather is
such hat the stock feeds out of door.
the Year aIouud. and only the fjnest
10. bloc ded animals are kept under cover
Many Of the work animals are not fed b,,t
hAFr 10 rely upon " hat they can cat In tn,
pasture fields. The result - that there i.
tt' chance for the farmer - store his wheat
IN harns and he has to rely upon the rail.
roads ioI getting 1T to the markets. III,
I'hd Is level. There are 10 grades Il
low.
The wheat Fields of the Argentine.
i believe that Arpeuti-r,. .TI.e.4r !,
IN Its infancy. Twenty years ago the Wis,
mea said that grain coula rever be crow1
I" any extent. The Argentines we're the,
importing millions of dollars worth o
wheat every year. aRC jhe farmers VIII,
were pasturing stock on what are now IN,
principal wheat nelds were eating fioul
shipped from the United Statas and Chile
To-day the Argentine mas to L large exten
the wheat trade of South America
plants millions of acres every year and i
produces from thirty to eighty rniIli,I
bushels a season according to the weathe
and TO the inyasions of thc locusts. Fo
the last seven eight years IL has t,ro
duCed from three-fifths To G.Ir-nfths OF m
wheat crop of THIS cOntihCnt. and TODAY /
Is shipping wheat to the diE -fCnt parts o
South America and TO Europe. when th
Argentine has good crop the prices O
wheat In the European markets are effect
ed and our farmers Often get less for thei
wheat in consequence. In the past year &.
80 Hour mills have been spriugiag up an.
thS Argentine has now more than 500 fiou
mills many of which use machinery i'm
ported from the United States. I had a
line bread for my breakfasts at Bueno
Ayres as you can get at any hotel in Ne;
} ork, and as a rule the -four used In tn
Argentine Is as good any We produce
great deal OF Argentine -four is shippe
&c Brazil and Uruguay, and some is beinj
sent TO Europe.
The grain producing area Of the Argen