The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-04

about 175 years ago, but wheat raising In
the Argentine gave II a great boom. and
within the last ten years Il has almost
trabled lis population. II has now about
10000 people. II IS wen btfllt. the streets
crossing one another at right angles. 1t
has good hotels, daily newspapers electric
lights, telephones and banks. 1t does a
big wholesale and retail business but the
most OF its money comes from wheat.
Loading Wheat at Rosario.
The warehouses are along the river and
the wheat is l venture. taken from the
cars TO the steamers more cheapiy at Ro-
sario than at any other point III the world.
The land about hero is a deep alluVial soil
which has been carried down from the
mountains by the streams Of the Rio de la
Plata system. Through this soil the Parana
has cut it's channel 70 such a depth that
the bluffs upon which the city stands are
at least seventy feet high. They are pre-
cipstous, and Rosario is built clear 10 their
edges so that the warehouses are higher
than the masts OF the steamers floating on
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 on the cars Is
transferred 20 the ships without going into
the warehouses. The transfer Is made by
gravity. Each shipping company has a
long chute running from the edge Of the
bluff and often from the warehouse itself
down into the river. These cAutes are made
IN sections and are 80 arranged that they
form a trough running from the bluff righ,
into the holds OF the steamers. Some Of
the chutes are sections OF iron. which can
D. hung on wire cables making iron
chute from the hold 20 the warehouse. so
arranged that II can be heightened or short
ened al Will.
The wheat is Ragged on the farm. The
cars carry IL 20 the edge OF the bluff and
italian iaborers take the bags and pssch
them into the chutes. AS soon as "a bag
touches the chute Il begins to descend. and
il fairly gallops down the inclined trough
into the steamer. The bags fly down one
after the other. at the rate OF several TO
the minute and as you look at them they
make you think OF an army Of galloplng
mice and you remember the horAe which
attacked the crael Archbishop Hattie in his
island In the Rhine.
Poor Railroad Facilities.
A. harves. time the wheat becomes con
gested et Rosario. The railroads have
FT.ore than they can 90 20 carry the crop,
and almost all other traffic Aas 30 be sus-
pended. There are not enough cars for the
business There IS here no such system %
United States. one company's cars can
not 20 over the tracks II other corapa-
MES The result is that the wheat Is piled
I'D n bags AZ the stations and left there
uu,H e can be shipped I saw such piles
~ different parts u the Argentine. As YET
there are comparatively few elevators and
the caring FOR he "a tsat Is after the most
9as.4ful methods There are 80 harms In
the Argentine. The weather IS such that
tie stock feels uaI 81 doors ine year
around. and only the fines, u hi0oded AM
-nais are kect under cover Many q ~
work animals are not tei hat have 20 rely
t1p.7 wat they can ca IN the pasture
feds The reSun is that there - - chance
s9r the farmer 70 store his wheat IN barns
ard be has 20 rely upon the railroads for
eating 4 20 tae raarkets TIE land 10
Jewel. TaeTs are 10 grades % sasak Of.
and tA@ freight rates should ne low.
The wheat Fields "f the Argentine.
7 believe sha, Argentine wheas ~ ising Is
g. is infancy. Twenty years ago the wise
re. sa.1 tat gran Ss.la rsysr e gJehS