Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-18
Copyright. 1899. by Frank O. carpcr

land south OF the equator. II lies at
the mouth Of the Rio de IN Plata. Just
across the way from the Argentine Re-
public. and ut the southeast corner of
Brazil. The whole country would hard
iy be mouthful for the Argentine and
not good-sized bite for big Brazil. but
It's land ls as fat as tho valley OF the
Nile and Its people step high on the
stilts OF self-cstccm. Most u the coun-
tries OF South America are big. BRAZIL
IL NJ biz as all the United States With
out Alaska or our new islands. The
Argentine covers more territory than
all Of our country east ~ the Mlnsisslp-
pi. but little Uruguay Is only about ns
big as Missouri and Connecticut. II il
about the size 81 North Dakota and IN
not 20 thickiy populated as Nebraska.
IL has about as many people as Boston.
and fully one-thlrd OF these are In the
capital. Montcvidco. which nj present
T. considerably less than Cleveland In
the number ~ liH inhabitants.
BiisD's-EYE VIEW or URUGUAY.
hut first let me give you a hlrd's.oyc
View Of the country. n you should look
at Uruguay from boiioon you would
see that u N gently rolling. II has no
hills more than 1000 feel high. The
country W covered with bili0wy waves
the Greater part of which IN made up Of
rich pastures.
Il IL well wn,ored There are rivers
and streams everywhere and ntlll hut
few rwampa. The climate IL such that
the EtiHs u green an tho year round,
ana the cattle and sheep are fed by
turning them out to chew Tor thcm-
There n not barn In the country.
You may travel thousand miles aud
not see hay stack ~ feeding trnurh
SUI there are noclsr nnd herds every
wherc. aud I learn TINT 40 least 5000. 900
cattle. iooo0.cn0 sheep and several hun
dfcd thousand horses and mules are
thus kcpt without much trouble. Talk
about job ana his cattle on n thousand
hillni IN respect 60 both hills aud cat
t.. job was not IN Il with Uruguay
The land " wen adapted 60 support n
great population. II has now about
twelve % the square illln. ana probably
rot half th.a number when you take out
the cities. doubt whether there o.
family fuf rVUrY 60 ncfcH. SIN this
soil VIII raise wheat n grows apples
ana pears Tor the llnonoa Ayres market,
nnd u has ifuwhcfrioa nine months In
the year II Il In about the latitude Of
Florida, but II n not na hot In the SUM
mer. nor. ~ whole. 20 cold In the win
tor. Its SEASONS are Just the opposite
Of ours. When we have fall Uruguay
has spring, aud whom we put on our
renlrkina the uruEunynn ladies use
their fans. August n the coolest
month. and nionf about January you
win md II the warmcnt.
WATER TO SPARE.
spoke about the land being we'll wa
tered. The streams cover Il like veins
of leaf. The veins ~ the human body
are not moro In number than the water
0f tffuuuHW ATutfuI uIWfuHf Tho
whole country there II n great bolt ~
water. making " n very ponlnFuih. ~
has. In fact. between FiN hundred aud
seven hundred miisa o. navlgnhie watcr
ways. There ~ the Atlantic on the
south and southeastern miles. There IL
the muddy River Plate. with 49, miles
NJ coast iino. lttlo further over. aud
along the western honuiory, go miles
Df the fwlfi-noWinr Uruguay.
The Uruguay II about nino miles Wide
NJ IT, mouth. md during the most Of
the year atcambontH NJ fourteen feet
can 30 up y 20 plynudu. bin town
about the middle Of the western houn-
dairy. From this point you get smaller
steamers which carry you further M.
and the R,o Negro. which crnwla nrrora
the country dividing II In two cguai
parts. Il also. 60 some extent. naviga-
bic.
THE CAPITAL or URUGUAY.
Uruguay has not many large cities,
N IN like the Argentine IN that the
capital rules n and forms lia rocinl. In
tellectuni. financial ana Industrial ccn-
ter, There are rerh1nl four cities which
range between lo.ooo and 1900 In pop.
ulntion and dozen smaller towns OF
from 5000 10 G0oo each. TheHe nre mar
ket towpr and state capitals but they
NIL pay tribute 10 Mnntcvldcn.
Montcvldeo calls Itself the Paris OF
fouth America. II n the hcalihicst
d. "a. -. .alNs
on the continent. liullt upon tongue
N rock which runs out Into the muddy
RIO do Ia Plata the streets all drain
Into the river. and every rain riveH the
city washing. There g. water on all
Sides ~ you n YOU walk M or down
hill you arr bound 10 come Ia Il, and
there Il, In fact. no chance for stag
nant pools.
Montc-vlden rnennr, "t see the moun-
tain " you look at the root OF this
tongue 81 rock you VIII really see tho
mountain from which the city was
named! II u called 'rhe ccrro," but
20 Tar from being mountain II n not
pnite 30 hiGh NJ the WnnhlnEton monu-
meni. ~ nifht you may distinguish
twenty-five miles out ~ sea tho revolv-
Inf liHht upon ita tower, but even VI
this were ont you could tell that the
cerro was there. Howl Why, by Its
smell. There IA a great slaughter house
on the cerro In which 100000 cattle are
Killed every year ana from which dur
Ing land breeze q diaguriinr odor W
waited over the waters. know I was
coming TO Montevldro LONG before !
could see the city by this smell,
LOOK At THE HARBoRs.
The Ray II Montoyldon ~ naturally
one Of the finest In the world. II ~ In
the shape OF n horseshoe six miles In
circumference. and No large that a
thousand ocean steamers could be In
y az one time. Hundreds ~ steamers
Formerly cast anchor there This " not
The case now. although more than one
thousand ahina call NJ the port every
year, Tho waters ~ the RIO dc IN Plata
are flllcd with mud. md for the past
seventy years they have been dropping
this mud into the bay. They have been
Milling II up AZ the rate ~ an inch
more than fifteen feet can come In,
The result II that the ocean steamers
must anchor far out In the river and Az
goods have 10 be brought In upon light
era, We were carried TO tho city on y
steam tug, our ship remaining several
miles from land.
For years Montcvideo has been plan
ming TO dredre out this hay. N IL eati-
mated that II WIN cost sa0,00o,0o0 70
Glenn II, but the result would be worth
much more thnn that to the city. II
would make II the chef port Of the
River Plate, as II II already tho. CHIEF
port of the country There are now
daily steamers from M0ntevdeo 10
buenos Ayrea and every day or go you