The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-15

and even to that of North America.
The development of California and Or
egon, however, changed this, and today
the latter not only supplies their own
wants, but as well large section Of
Central and part of Western South
America with breadstuffs. Chile on
her part has become the worlds nitrate
producer and notably so in copper
while her vineyards have increased
with each year.
In the Argentine Republic the
changes that have occurred are even
more striking. because they relate to
things with which we of the United
States and Canada are more familiar
1t is, for example, relatively speaking,
but few years since the United States
was shipping -four to the Argentine
Republic and to Uruguay. Today, as
result of the immigration that has
poured into those republics, but prin-
cipally into the first country, and as
result Of the application of North Amer
| lean farm machinery to the great allu-
vial basin of the River Plate, the Ar
gentine Republic alone exports to Eu.
rope 35.O00,000 bushels of wheat and
half that amount of maize each year
Not content with having thus become
the competitor of the United States and
Canada in the Old World la The expor
tation of breadstuffs, the same republic
has also become their competitor-and
a strong and growing one, too-in the
expectation of meat products. Few
have any idea of the growth of this in
dustry in the River Plate republics
| Thirty years ago Great Britain import
ed less than 100000 pieces of frozen
mutton. Indeed that was the begin
ming of that industry. Today there are
killed, frozen and exported to Europe
each day from the province of Buenos
Ayres alone, in the Argentine Republic.
| $1,000 carcasses of as good mutton as
| the world can produce, while innumera
BILE square miles of alfalfa fields dot
the republic and furnish rice, cheap
fattening material for 30,00O000 or
more of cattle possessed by the coun.
try.
The advantages the people of the
United States and Canada might obtain
by grasping the true meaning Of the
above facts would appear to me many
and their value very great.
If they would, for instance, but real
! lie the significance of the one fact
that well bred, fat steer can be and is
being produced in the Argentine Re,
public and exported to England at a to-
tai expense at least $50 less than it is
possible to do the same thing in either
the United States or Canada while
great advantage lies with the producer
of River Plate mutton-they would
realize the strong appearance of proba-
bility to the often quoted statement
made by some that the not distant flu.
ture would bring River Plate mutton to
our tables ilRthe United States.
Great Cattle Zones In the south.
Many public men in South America
| believe this will occur, reasoning as
| they do that the conditions in the Unit
ed States are such and their develop
ment in manufactures is so pronounced
that it can be looked upon as altogether
| probable that within the next ten years
meat win be profitably exported to the
United States from the great cattle
zones Of South America. They also
believe that the turn Of the tide that
has carried the United States into the
position of a lender of money rather
than a borrower will then carry the
well known aggressiveness and zeal of
| American tinanciers and Industrial op
orators into South America, where a
| highly profitable field would be found
! for the employment of capital in the
! development of many of the smaller
| Industries now ia existence there and
! in the consolidation and operation on
a large scale of the meat producing
| plants there and in the handling of
| breadstuGs and all their related indus
tries.
/ Millions of acres of Nllable land in
an excellent climate, with every facili
| ty except immediate transportation
await those who will seriously look for
| it in South and Central America, and
| it was the earnest wish and purpose
of those who formulated and planned
the Pan American Exposition that in
all the above fields they might, through
toward bringing to all better knowl
| edge than now exists concerning the
| countries of the Western Hemisphere
and that there might result from the
| Exposition something of value in the
direction of wider dissemination of
that practical knowledge of our sur
roundings and of our future Industrial
| outlook so much desired by all of us
and so essential to a proper realization
on our own part of the problems of
! trade and of commerce that are in
store for us and for our children to
solve. that through it the people Of the
! Western Hemisphere might more clear
| ly appreciate than they now do the
enormous resources of the Western
| Hemisphere and the possibilities 1t con
tains for the building up of an enor
NOUS industrial empire. containing. as
1t does, the most fertile agricultural
lands of the world toward both ex-
| tremitics of the hemisphere. with min
erals and forests adjacent in either sec
ton, with great navigable waterways
| in both North and South America and
with a central zone capable of produc
ing to an unlimited degree all the trop-
| ical and subtropical products known
| to or used by man.
The Pan.American Exposition was
| NOT therefore eit her CENTRALLY or LARGO.