Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-04

IL navirablc by steam for more than
1 200 miles and were II mob for strip
Of falls and rapids along the eastern
edge OF southern Paraguay. II could be
nnvigatod for many hundreds Of miles
further.
NOT An OCEAN HIGHWAY.
The boats going up these rivers must
all draw not moro than ten feet. and
those to the upper ports cannot have
more than from I'VE to nine feet. Even
then they arc liable 10 be grounded In
the sand by low water You frequently
see statements that the ocean steamers
con go by the PARMA Tar into the in
terror of South America. This Is not
true. steamers Of sixteen feet can 20
VI the river ~ FAR us Rosario. u dis
tancu ~ 800 miles from Bucnon Ayrcs
and about 800 miles from the Atlantic
above this ships would stick fast In
the mud. AZ Il "a. our steamer. tho
Snturn0. which was at the time draw
iug only ton feet ~ water. stopped at
nlEit nrhin and again on our way TO
AHcunclon for fear of tho alnd banks
There ~ no good chart Of the parann.
The river often changes It's course.
and Il ~ always building up ard tear
ms down bars and Islands within lts
chunnti. The water carry 20 much mud
that q aung VIII form n bat. and wreck
win sbon build up an island. Onc Of the
largest Islands 10 the river nearitosairin
WAS started By a submerged hay barge.
ana further up the atroam there are
hundreds Of Islands the soil " which
has gathered about the watcr-lorged
trees which have iloaiod down from the
forests % Paraguay and Brazil
TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS.
Put qn the thinking cnp Of yo,i i'm
oFlnrtinn and take trip with me up
through the thousand Islands " the
raraun. You may nave seen tho thou
sand Islands 90 the st. Lawrence. They
are nothing In comparison with the ton
thousand isiandn " this wonderful
liver. There are. Indeed. 70 many h.
lands that they have never been count
ed The liver for hundreds of miles
u great Inland sea. 20 wide IN places
that among the islands you cannot
see the banks. Come oi the Islands are
covered with willows. fcnthcry reeds
line their shores and gnarly trees hang
down low aud mirror themselves w the
water. Others further up the river are
though Il has been said that there In
enough rood soil upon them to raise
food for all Europe. and on few there
are cattle and weep.
Most u the Islands are great fields
Of frufn. and % those some are not
NNti nut inAtihfi anu Afny Kud' ny
uur steamer down the river almost AZ
fast az We steam on our may up H.
These fioatirg islands are called came
lots. Thry ARE great masses ~ Ernss,
weeds, and flowers which the rurhing
Hoods have torn from their fgguda-
lions and are carrying down 60 the sea.
Some arc 80 fifm thpt they VIII support
q man. and upon them tigers. inruara
and snakes ARE often carried TO tho
islands about liuenol AyrrH.
THE DELTA or THE PARANA.
Just after leaving Bucnos AyFcs We
steamed through the delta Of the Para.
~. This delta u about twenty miles
Wide. and u extends up the river ar Tar
~ Rosario. q distruce of 900 miicn. u
ir rcppcrud with Islands. some of
which nru covered with forests Of
peach trees. ana other with gardens
Nt 10y italinnH t. nulply the mnfkctn
~ flunnun Ayrer. Many ~ the hoayrr
ar. raised upun rlloh tp be out OF the
way OF the Hoods and the tides when
they c1rfy, aH they romstiinca 90.
great vpNer In from the ocean.
Al the entrance to the purlna We
plra tho Island 90 Martin Garcia. thc
Gibraltar ~ the River I'iutA. Niiioii
once belonged o. Uruguay. nut which n
nov the property ~ The Arscntinc ile-
public u he's q naval school aud o.
fort mon ~ the batteries N which are
worked by electricity. u o. un' ~ the
hiatcric points Of the leo d. IN Plata.
and 90 wr 20 ~ II We recall the fact
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