Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-29
By WILLIAM l. BUCHANAN. Director General
by COURTESY OF GOLFERS WEEKLY

ANAN. Director General
OILERS WEEKLY.
her part has become the worid nlrrare
producer and notably so in copper.
while her vineyards have increased
with each year.
In the Argentine Republic the
changes that have occurred Or Zen
more striking because they rele 10
things with which we of the U4MLd
States and Canada are more familiar.
1t is. for example. relatively speaking,
but few years since the United States
was shipping flour to the Argentine
Republic and to Uruguay Today. as a
result of the immigration that has
poured into those republics, but prin-
cipally into the first country. and as a
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 35,000000 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 in the expor-
tatiOn of breadstuffs. the same republic
has also become their competitOr-and
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
4 each day from the province of BuenOs
! Ayres alone, in the Argentine Republic
! 1900 carcasses of as good mutton as
the world can produce, while innumera
bic square miles Of alfalfa fields dot
the republic and furnish rice cheap
fattening material for 3OOO0.O0O 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
ize the significance Of the one fact
that well bred. fat steer can lie and is
being produced in the Argentine Re
public and exported to England at a to-
tai expense at least $15 less than it is
possible to do the same thing in either
the United States or Canada-while a
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 in the 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 il can be looked upon as altogether
probable that within the next ten years
meat will be protitably exported to the
United States from the great cattle
zones of South America. They also
believe that the turn CT 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 aggressiveness and zeal OF
American tinanciers and Industrial Op
orators into South America. where g
highly profitable field would he found
for the employment of capital in thS
development Of many Of the smaller
!. industries now in existence there and
in the consolidation and operation OF
a large scale of the meat producing
plants there and in the handling OF
breadstuffs and all their related indus
tries.
Millions of acres of tillable land. il
an excellent climate. with every facili
, ty except immediate transportation
await those who will seriously look foi
it in South and Central America. anC
! it was the earnest wish and purpose
of those WHO formulated and planned
: the Pan American Exposition that il
all the above fields they might, through
the Exposition. do something tangible
! toward bringing to all better knowl
, fdge than now exists concerning tin
! countries Of the Western Hemisphere
! and that there might result from tn
Exposition something of value in IT,,
r direction of a wider dissemination O
that practical knowledge of our sur
. roundings and OF our future industrial
outlook so much desired by all of Ii
Rnd 50 essential to a proper realization
on our own part of the problems o
> trade and of commerce that are il
store for us and for our children f
/ solve, that through it the people Of tn
Western Hemisphere might more clear
, ~ appreciate than they now do TIL
enormous resources of the Westerl
Hemisphere and the possibilities it con
tains for the building up of an enor
NOUS Industrial empire. containing, a.
$ It, does, the most fertile agriculture
> lands of the world toward both eX
+ tremities of the hemisphere, with min
: erals and forests adjacent in either SEE
5 tion, with great navigablc waterway
: in both North and South America an
e with central zone capable of prOduC
S ing to an unlimited degree all the trol
4 ical and subtropical products know
:, to or used by man.
0 The Pan-American Exposition wa
y not, therefore, either entirely or large
d ly born of a selfish desire on the pal
y of the people of the State of New YOrl
e and of Buffalo primarily, TO draw a
+ tention to anything they possess or
O acquire wholly local prestige and bent
S fit from the undertaking. The loo;
q ton of the Exposition was fixed {
Buffalo by reason of the fact that III
q courage of the people of that city an
Z their public spirit and faith in the
/ ability to finance and produce an Int
q national Exposition which should |
s confined to the Western Hemisphel
y was strong enough to convince CO.
re gress that the work would be
ID done, and hence the location
De cided upon.
lie What Buffalo Has
rs This step having bee
e die thus cast, Buffa'
ly to the occasion
of millions of mo
I'd have been
IN pose to
.ir tior