Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-19

Cordoba. In the basin OF the Parana.
and also In the province 81 Entre Rios.
between the Uruguay and Paran1 rive
crs. This country is like Illinois along
the Ohio river. II Is divided into
clmparatively small tracts, and is
largely farned by colonies OF foreign
cra,
such ls birds eye view OF the
Argentine Republic. I will lll out the
picture IN letters describing different
paris NJ the country and the different
Industries
THE POPULATION OF THE AR
CBNTtNE.
The Argentine now has i00000o reo-
pie. n SLOWS fast. ~ has trobiCd %
within .hlriy years. and lis people
claim they viii have b.OOo.OOl ln 1900.
More than 100000 Immigrant came On
last year More Than onc-third 81 all
Che people 100 The country are f'rrign-
Urs. nnd 30 per cent Of the foreigners
are Italians More Italians are COME
Ing. and I se' from statement ln this
m1rnings paper that King HumbeN
ostimltcs that 100000 Italians VIII rml-
gfate next year Eighteen per cons "
the Immigrants are Spanish and 4 per
cent French. This makes ~ per cent
~ si the immigrants ~ The Latin race.
The remaining 5 per cent u mado ~ "
British Russians. Danes. Swiss ana
Portuguese. Until lately there we're
a1 ftW Americans that they were not
worthy Of consideration. Now Amor
leans of the better class are coming
Ion. ana they VIII form an imp1r1nt
factor In the Argentine. Tho P1rtu.
ruese al rule DO not stay. The men
" the other classes remain. In Enu-
Grafton o. 90 thov marry Argentine
girls aud become Arg ntince. aud out
- the whole Is being evolved the
Argentine type NJ the future.
THE PEOPLE OF THE ARGENTINE
Those Argentine people are not like
the South Americans of the west coast
They have no great strain % Indian
blood runflnE through chem, They
are 81 aimon pure European cNiitc-
tlon. They are not Spanish, not French.
not Italian. not AnFl1sshNnu. They
arc evolving combination " all these.
with the latin strain proiomlnatlnr.
Just A. In America we ore forming u
type with the AnElo-saNon strain In
great asccndnucy. l think, however.
that our Tyre % far superior 70 any mat
can be produced here.
The chanrs IN the Argentine goes on
very rapidly. Al the beginning ~ this
century the old families were spanish
and Portuguese. Since thea they have
| been intrrnnfrylnE with the English
Scotch. Germans and Americans and
Italians. You can see this In the names
u he distinguished ArEcnilnea Al.
mirii Brown. one of the famous naval
officers. was ~ English extraction. tn,
| Livingston family. whose ladies ar,
noted Tor their wealth and beauty. q
/ In the fourth generation from the Llv'
mgttoua % New York. pclllrrlne.
former PRECEDENT. and one u the mos.
| able men ~ the country has Engllsl
blood IN him. The grandfather ~ thl
| chief ~ police NJ Hucnon AyrfH was 40
! American. The father ~ TrunlulHt
another prominent Argentine. was
| New orleans man. ana there Hrr many
other leading families IN whose V0in'
How rich strains VI Irish ana itallaf
blood
| Already the Spanish type has beer
materially mollnod. Indeed. with "a
large percentage ~ foreign born. thii
counEy n today o. cosmopolitan a. ans
country " the world. II you could hi
hllndfoldcd and upon one Of the magl'