The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-19
II Has the Richest Land South Of
the Equator, and Can Support
Millions Hontevideo and Its
Fine Public Buildings-Qneer
Features Of Uruguayan finan-
oes, Showing How . President
Stole S., 600, 600 Scenes on
the Street-Hilk Carts on Legs.

A0utevideo. Uruguay. Feb. ], 1883.
- q RCGTAT Is the smallest and
\ Il richest land south Of the equar
II laS. II SsS ~ the mouth Of tze
RIO Dc IA Plata. just across the
~ way from the Argentine RepGss-
lie. and AZ the southeast corner
of Brazil. The whole country would hard
Ey ce q nsnuthfui for the Argentine and
not a goo5-ssxsd bite for big Brazil! bat
IT'S land IS as fat as the valley OF the
Nile and it, people step high on the stills
of self-esteaua- Most of the countries Of
South America are big. Brazil Il as big
as al the United States without Alaska
or our new islands The Argentine covers
more territory than ali Of our country
east Of the Mississippi. hu, little Uruguay
Is only about as big aA Missouri and Con-
necticut II ID about the size Of North
Dakota and Is not SO thickiy populated as
Nebraska IL has about as many peoete
as Boston. ard fully one-thirG Of these
are in the capital. Nontsvideo. which at
present IS considerably less than Cleveland
in the number Of It's inhabitants
A Dira's Eye View Of Uruguay.
Bat drst let me give you q birds eye
view Of the country II you should look
at Uruguay from a balloon you would see
that il IL gently rolling II has NO hills
more than lido feet high the country is
covered with hl.owy waves, the greater
part OF which Is made Up Of rich pastures
1t Is well ~asered. There are rivers and
streams everywhere and still bat few
sNamss- Tbs climate il such that the
grass II green al the year round. and the
cattle and sheep are fed BIZ turning them
out 70 chew for themselves
There IS not Q barn in the country. You
may travel a thousand miles and not see
a hay stack or feeding trough. StlI there
are nocks and herds everywhere. and !
learn that 81 least g1s0eee cattle, IsOa,-
40 sheep ard SEVERAL hundred thousand
horses and mules are thus kept Mithou.
much trouble. TAX about Job ard his
cattle on thousand hills. In respect TO
both hills and cattle job was not IN it
with Uruguay.
The land - wen adapted to support q
great population II has now about twelve
TO the square mile, and probably 10. half
this number when you take Out the cities
I doubt whether there Is family for
every So acres. StiR this soil will raise
wheat II grows apples and pears for the
Buenos Ayres market. and il has straw
berries nine months Ia the year. II is in
about the latitude Of Florida, bat il is
net as hot IN the summer, nor as a
whole. 20 cold in the winter. Its seasons
are just the opposite Of ours When we
have fall Uruguay has spring. and when
we put On our seaiskins the rruguya1
ladies' use their fans. August Is the cold
IS; month, ard along abou. January you
VIII hn9 X the warmsSt-
Water and to spare.
/ spoke about the land being well wa
tered The streams cover it like the veins
Of leaf The veins % the human BODY
are not more in number than the water
ways Of Uruguay. Around almost the
whole country there is great belt o.
water. making II a very peninsula II has.
in fact. between go and 10 miles of nav
igaale waterways. There is the Atlantic
on the south and sousheast-3o miles.
There Is the muddy River Plate. with
is miles OF coast line, a little further
over and along The western boundary, 20
miles o. the swsft-.iowing Uruguay.
The Uruguay is about nine miles wide at
lis mouth. and during tsse most OF the
year steamboats, of fourteen feet can 20
UP IL to psyanGu, . big town abou. the
middle 81 the western boundary From,
this point you get smaller steamers which
carry you further up. ard the Rio Negro
which crawis across the country dividing
Il In two equal parts. is also. 20 Some
extent. navigahie.
The Capital of Uruguay
Uruguay mas not many large cities II
IL like the Argentine In thai the earHtas
rules IL and FERNS It's sc>.al intellectual.
financial ard industrial. center There are
perhaps four cities which range between
In.isa and Is 80 In population. and dozen
smaller towns Of from 3ts1 TO s, - each.
TsseSe are market towns and state cart
tails bat they all pay tribute 90 Monte
vt.eo
Monseyid@o calls Itself the Paris %
South America. II Is tire healthsesf city
81 the world ard the clsanest city on gae
continent Buiit upon a tongue % rock
which runs aat into the muddy Flo de la
Plata the streets all drain into the river,
and every rata gives tire city "a washing.
There ~ water on al sides Of ycu. X
you walk UP or down a hsl Yea are