The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-19
THE PAN-ArfERICAN EXPOSE

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tor-and a strong and growing one,
too-in the expectation Of meat pro-
! ducts. Few have any idea of the
growth of this industry in the River
Plate Republics. Thirty years ago
Great Britain imported less than 3OO,-
900 pieces of frozen mutton. Indeed
that was the beginning of that indus
| try. Today there are killed, frozen
and exported to Europe each day from
the province of Buenos Ayres alone
in the Argentine Republic, $4,000 car
casses of as good mutton as the world
| can produce, while innumerable square
| miles of alfalfa fields dot the republic
! and furnish rice---cheap fattening
material for the 3O,OO0,OOO or more of
| cattle possessed by the country.
The advantages the people of the
United States and Canada might OBJ
tain by grasping the true meaning of
the above facts. would appear to be
many, and their value very great.
| If they would, for instance, but real
ize the significance of the one fact that
a well bred, fat steer can be and is be-
ing produced in the Argentine Repub-
lie and exported to England at a total
expense at least SIS less than 1t is
the United States or Canada-while a
greater advantage lies with the pro-
ducer of River Plate mutton-they
! would realize the strong appearance Of
probability to the often quoted state
| ment made by some that the not dist
ant future would bring River Plate
mutton to our tables in the United
| States.
Many public men in South America
| believe this will occur reasoning as
they do, that the conditions in the
United States are such and their de-
velopment in manufactures so pro-
nounced that it can be looked upon as
altogether probable that within the
next ten years meat will be profitably
the great cattle zones of South Amer
| lea. They also believe that the turn
of the tide that has carried the United
} States into the position of lender of
money rather than a borrower will
| then carry the well known aggressive
ness and zeal of American financiers
and industrial operators into South
America, where a highly profitable
| field would be found for the employ
ment of capital in the development
of many of the smaller industries now
in existence there and in the consoli-
! dation and operation on a larger scale
of the meat producing plants there and
| in the handling of breadstuffs and all
| their related industries.
Millions of acres of tillable land in
| an excellent climate, with every facil-
| ity except immediate transportat ton,
| await those who will seriously look for
| it in South and Central America, and
| it was the earnest wish and purposa
| of those who formulated and planned
the Pan-American Exposition that in
all the above fields they might through
| the Exposition do something tangible
| toward bringing to all better know
| ledge 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 realiza-
| tion 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 1t the people of
| the Western Hemisphere might more
! clearly appreciate than they now do
| the enormous resources of the West
| ern Hemisphere and the possibilities IT
| contains for the building UP Of an
| enormous industrial empire. containing
| as 1t does, the most fertile agriculture
| al lands of the world toward both ex-
| tremities of the hemisphere. with min
| erals and forests adjacent in either
| section, with great, navigable water
ways in both North and South Amerl-
| ca, and with a central zone capable of
| producing to an unlimited degree all
the tropical and sub-tropical products
| known to or used by man.
| The Pan American Exposition was
not, therefore, either entirely or large
ly born of selfish desire on the mart
of the people of the state of New York,
and of Buffalo primarily, to draw at
tention to anything they possess nor to
acquire, wholly, local prestige and
benefit from the undertaking. The To-
cation of the Exposition was fixed al
| Buffalo by reason of the fact that the
courage of the people of that city and
their public spirit and faith in their
ability to finance and produce an In
ternational Exposition which should be
confined to the Western HemispMc %,
was strong enough to convince co...
sress that the work would be W 4
done, and hence the location was de-
cided upon.
This step having been taken and the
| die thus cast, Buffalo has risen Cuua'
to the occasion. and has subscribed
millions OF money, and as city there
has been sunk in one common purpose
to succeed all personal and sectional
jealousies and ambitions.
| a splendid location was selected 70,
the Exposition, in which there is in.
cluded a large part of the city's great
and famously beautiful park, from
the time that was done up to the pres
ent moment the interest and energ,
manifested and the strong intent tC
succeed in every way shown by tn,
people of the city in their great un
dertaklng have been focused upon an
centered in the work now nearing com
pletion. The extent to which this in
terest has been shown can be gauget
from the fact that on several recen
Sundays 10000 people have passed
through the wagon gates to tn,
grounds in order that they might Sc,
| how the work of constructing the Ex
position buildings was progressing.
In its architectural qualities and out
lines the Exposition pays the republics
Of South and Central America th,
highest compliment possible since n
the character and design of the build
ings there will be placed before tn
| visitor the most perfect. the mos
beautiful and the most enchanting pic
ture of Spanish architectural memories
| that has ever heen nrasnntad In o.,