The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16

but two such questions are still to be adjusted upon the west coast. Stable
 government, well administered, has
 been reached in very many of the re-
 puhlics south of us. In some-notably
 in those toward the extreme south of
 the continent-the most striking and
 rapid advances imaginable have been
 made during the past ten years in their
 material development and in the pros
 perity of their people.
 This has been especially true of the
 Argentine Republic and of Chile. Fifty
 years ago the latter supplied flour to
 the entire west coast of South, Central
 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 a 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.
 Tn 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. It is, for example, relatively speaking, but few years since the United States was shipping flour to the Argentine Republic and to Uruguay. Today, as result of the immigrati tion that has poured into those republics, but prin- cipally into the first country, and as a result Of the application of North Amer ican farm machinery to the great allu- vial basin of the River Plate, the Ar genuine Republic alone exports to Eu- rope 35,OOO,O0O 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 Woriu Ia sae expor- tation Of breadstuffs, the same republic has also become their ompetitOr-and a strong and growing one, too--in the exportation 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, 13,000 carcasses of as good mutton as the world can produce, while innumera- ble square miles of alfalfa fields dot the republic and furnish rice, cheap fattening material for 30,000,0OO 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 we'll bred, fat steer can be and is being produced in the Argentine Re public and exported to England at 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 l made by some that the not distant fu- 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 1t can be looked upon as altogether probable that within the next ten years meat will be proftably exported to the United States from the great cattle l 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 fnanciers and industrial op- orators into South America, where a highly profitable field would be found I for the employment of capital in the l development of many of the smaller industries now in existence there and in the consolidation and operation on 1 a large scale of the meat producing l plants there and in the handling of l breadstuffs and all their related indus tries.
 Millions of acres of tillable land, in | an excellent climate, with every facili- | ty except immediate transportation, l await those who will seriously look for l it in South and Central America, and l it was the earnest wish and purpose | of those who formulated and planned l the Pan-American Exposition that in l all the above fields they might, through | the Exposition, do something tangible 1 toward bringing to sil 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 a 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 8 proper realization on AI1r nNzn raa1yt af fho Yaf.nllor1as ofe