The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-05-10

I gu ilttt tioSt lSIptpliNS. 'tt
cipaliy into the first country. and : 4
result of the application CT N2r:h Amer
lean farm machinery to tie great Hliu-
vial basin CT the River Plate. the NJ
gcntine Republic alone exports to En-
rope 100000 bushels of wheat AID
half that amount of maize each year.
Not content with having TINS ,""",le
| the competitor CT the CnitCl States 3::u
Canada in the Old World in tie P::p1r-
tation Of breadstuifs. the same republic
has also become their competitor nd
strong and growing one. too-in the
expectation of meat products. Few
have any idea of the growth of this in
dustry in :he River Plate republics.
Thirty years ago Great Britain ini?N"t
cd less than 100000 pieces of f;o.."n
mutton. Indeed that was the begin
ming Of that industry. Today there are
killed. frozen and exported TO ;u:>p"
each Gay from the province of Bu"nos
Ayres alone. in the Argentine Republic
13,CCO carcaSSes OF as good mutton as
the world can produce. while inr;iE:r-a
, Bic square miles of alfalfa fields dot
the republic and furnish rice cheap
| fattenng material for 3O.CGn.GEo or
more of cattle possessed by the com
try.
The advantages the people CT the
United States and Canada might obtain
by gTaSping the true meaning cf the
above facts would appear to nj" Lnlay
and their value very great.
If they would. for instance. but real
iZc the significance of the c:lr fact
that q well bred. fat steer can I've AMI IS
being produced in the Argentine Re
| public and exported to Engla ~ at Il TO-
, tai expense at least Sl5 less than it is
possible to do the same thing i'll either
| the United States or da-while
great advantage lies with the producer
of River Plate mutton-they woi:.d
realize the strong appcara nee Of prosa
bility to the often quoted statement
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 is
| they dc that the conditions in the init
ment in manufactures is so pronounced
that il can be looked upon as altogether
probable that within the next ten years
meat will be profitably 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 n borrower will then carry the
! we'll known aggressiveness and zeal Of
| American fn1ncierS and industrial op
orators into South America. where u
highly profitable field would be found
for the employment Of capital in the
development of many of the smaller
industries now in existence there and
in the consolidation and operation on
| large scale Of the meat producing
plants there and in the handling Of
breadstutfs and all their related indus
tries.
Millions of acres of tilla bic 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 these 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 q better knowl-
edge than now exists concerning the
countries of the Western Hemisphere
and that there might result from the
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direction of 4 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 cssg n:ial to 4 proper realization
on our own part of III" problems Of
trade and of commerce tat are in
store for lis and for our children to
solve. that through it the people CT the
Western Hemisphere might more clear
ly appreciate than they now do the
enormous resources of the Western
Hemisphere and the possibilities i, con,
tains for the building VI CT ar cnor-
NOUS Industrial empire. run.a ming, as
It doe. the most fertile agricultural
lands VI the world toward both *
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 subtropcal products known
to or used by man.
The Pan-American Exposition was
not, therefore, either entirely or large
ly born of q selfish desire on the part
of the people of the State of New York,
| and Of Buffalo primarily. to draw at
tention to anything they possess or to
acquire wholly local prestige and bene-
fit from the undertaking. The loca-
ton of the Exposition was fixed at
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 81 Inter-
national Exposition which should be
confined to the Western Hemisphere
was strong enough to convince Con-
gress that the work would be we'll
done, and hence the location was de-
cided upon.
What Buffalo Has Done.
This step having been taken and the
die thus cast, Buffalo has risen equal
to the occasion and has subscribed
millions of money. and as a city, there
have been sunk, in one common pur-
pose to succeed, all personal and sec
tional jealousies and ambitions.
\ splendid location was selected for
the Exposition. in which there is in
ciuded a large part of the city's great
and famous.y beautiful park. and from
the time that was done up to the pres
ent moment the interest and energy
manifested and the strong intent to
succeed in every way shown by the
people of the city in their great under
taking have been focused UPON ana cen
tered il the work now nearing compile
ton. The extent 10 which this interest
has been shown can be gagged from
the fact that on SeVcI2! recent .;;..I-
days 10000 people Lave passed through
the wagon Gates to the grounds in or
der that they might see low the work
of constructing the Exposition build
inSs was progressing.
Architectural Wonders.
In its architectural qualities and out
lines the Exposition pays the republics
Of Sauth and Central America tho