The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-30

no t02Iag place BAT the bar room. ARD
every nigh, a. about 1 sheep farmers.
merchants, CLERKS aHa3 others drop in % gee
their nip before dinner. A. dinner does not
come on s>efcrs S:N they haze plenty II
time 70 III. no before that. The savcrsts
Enetso1 OF buying drinks IS by leach man IN
the party throwing dice aaI the loser pay
Ing the bill Liquors are very high here.
This = 30 notwithstanding that Puata Arc
mas Is a free port ard no aGtv Is charged.
Champagne costs Twelve silver dollars per
bottle. This last | knew 10 nv sorrow fo~
IN a generous mood while TALKING sheep
siih number OF farmers last nis1r or
0eTea champagne FOR he crowd The bill
Was astounding.
sheep Farming in TERRA Del FueEo.
Yeu can't tell a man down here hy his
clothes. One OF these sheep farmers.
young fellow of thirty. whose iaconne rams
into The tens OF thousands year, wears
faded SO vslve,een suit a .s-cent wool
shirt. SLOUGH Ia; and pair - high hooss
Half the time his shirt X unbuitcned at
The neck and 20 look a. him you would aot
think him worth cent. His sheep farm
- as big as an Ohio county, and AZ The
sasi counting his sheep numbered sn.t"o
head Another cf the party was young
kTg-sshman. who was dressed IN 4 costume
that would not have been out ~ place IN
Hyde Park. He had swell riding boots
with velI-cnt sslit q Scotch tweed. He
was only an empioys AZ a big SHEEP STA
ton. third man was dressed much IKE
an American business man ne was he
MANAGER u The biggest sheep ranch ~
TERRA del F'Gago. He had the supervision
~ No. tnan d hundred thousand s.aeep
and Of a grazing terrl;oFiyy Of TWO and enc
half million acres Of land.
Sheep farming has now become the great
industry of this part or the world a 'arse
part Of lower Patagonia is given up 10 I.
aud all OF tha available lands IN the
Chilean territory Of ne MageI.ans. inc,u6-
ing TERRA de. iNlego, have bern either
hoaeh, or leased. Il VIII give YOU some
idea o. ths growth 81 the Industry when
| tell YOU thar in ISIS just twenty years
ago. there were only M sheep in All thS
Magel.ans. Seven years later there were
ia.eA, and in 1882 the number had lncreas-
ed 70 +s0so In 1925 Ii was estimated tina;
there were ss,fs.. and now on taS stand
alone there are considerably more than a
million sheep. The sheep farmers origin
ally came here from the Falkland Islands.
bur since then Australians. French, ,fef.
mans Russians and others have joined
with them IN gobhling up The Lands The
majority however are EngliSn and Scotch.
one Of the largest owners OF sheep here -
our American consul. who Is also interest
"a in many ether things. HIS name IS
Maurice Braun. He i Russian by birth.
bui the most Of MS lie has ~ n spent IN
the Magelans. He has eioen acres IN
Tierra del Fuego. and is interested in
number Of other large farms there and on
the mainland. He is il young man, bat
possesses remarkable business ability, and
makes an excellent consul
On a Rig sheep Farm.
The management of one or these large
sheep farms is interesting.
Take that If the company which has Two
and one-half million acres In TERRA del
| F'uego Its one hundred thousand sheep
are divided into focks OF two thousand
each. Each flock has a pasture tract about
six miles square allotted 10 1t, This IS Just
the size OF many OF our American town.
ships. and u YOU will imagine a township
as one field you will have Idea Of the
ordinary Terra del Feuego pasture This.
to many OF our farmers. w6uld seem
large amount OF land for this number Of
sheep bur the grass here Is short. and in
TERRA del Fuego from two 20 three acrns
OF pasture are required for each sheep.
fN7E HaT is own 81 aE}hcrt. who
watches the sheep horseback. He has a
number of dogs which he so trains that
| they viii obey his signs. Most o. the dogs
| are Scotch colies. which are very futeiii-
| gent. and which understand their masters
| almos, well as though they could under
! stand language. When the shepherli makes