The Republican journal., 1904-03-31
The End of South America.
pArAG0NIA AND TERRA DEL FuEGo,
M SUCH COUNTRIES NOW. NEW
,,r7HoD OF DISCIPLINING INDIANS.


,,rrEoD OF DISCIPLINING INDIANS
..I,, correspondence of The journal.
a.>-A ARENAS, PATAGONIA, Feb
1904 When you and went to
.a- --ader mine. there was Pata-
.... on the maps that we studied, and
Terra del Fuego: but now there
rr such countries anywhere, al
..H the old name still clings to the
rles. \ few years ago it happened
-- chance that the two most pow
A r-publics of South America
.-.. t Argentina-found themselves
40 internal revolutions on hand,
isl, they combined in a sort of mis-
...5 enter rise against their weaker
less civilized neighbors, the
-aIans and the TERRA del Fue-
Ailiing off most of them, en-
lie remainder, and dividing
sessions between themselves.
came to division of spoils,
led States was called upon to
-- E.. rough her Ministers in Buenos
md santiago, and so entirely to
faction of the yictors was the
adjusted that they afterwards
-.r-G costly testimonials of regard
Ministers aforesaid. 1t was
nat the boundary line Of Chilli
.. - be extended down the coast of
.utry and then run eastward
.uItu of the Strait Of Magellan,
s argentina should have the vast
..- VI Patagonia, and Chill the
II Magellan and most of the
n-ioW it, THIS making the mod
30 Of Chill look like the leg of a
au. long and lean with a very
,,tep and several conspicuous
1t is difficult to say which
3. got the best of the bargain
II the great international water
ga the southern archipelago, COM
Thousands of uneXplored islands
-,ei to be rich in gold, silver, coal
a- pper, is most valuable, or the
plains which fell to the share of
-l,ua, rising in regular terraces
-a The seaboard to the summit of the
traS and as extensive as those
stretch between the Mississippi
and the mountains of Colorado.
s a- useful for agricultural purposes
attic raising.
H a. T. Curtis writes as follows
his high-handed dissecting of
.-l. country: 1T is commonly
stom to divide property after the
teath, but in this instance the
-dLct was first shared by the
and then the owner was merci-
>aughtered They called it
trilmph of the genius of civiliza-
Wei the barbarians: but, as in
other cases, the impeachment to
ALTON was swept away in a cata-
If plood. Gen. Roca, a recent
-&eit of the Argentine Republic,
Tie author and executor of the
-..-..e Of civilizing Patagonia. and he
pI>hed it i'll the same way that
.4r.y Conquistadores introduced
tanIty-With the keen edge of a
,... This is a fair sample of his
try work: The old dividing
tween Patagonia and Argentina
4 Rio Negro, a mighty river
lows along the forty-first paral-
-agIy a thousand miles north of
~-Ialt of Magellan. The Southern
this great stretch of country is
.. and barren, mostly shale beds
ed with thorny shrubs and coarse
.-s upon which nothing but ostriches
Ubsist: but farther north the
altered pampas rise in terraces
l. Andean slopes. During half
eaI the region of the Straits is
by those fierce winds called
p~r0s, which are the dread of both
gators and landsmen. Since time
ol mind the Patagonians had been
habit of driving their cattle from
I'D and windy lowlands to winter
foothills of the Andes; and these
{r Savages also had the habit of
ug their herds and women in the
aN-4tains while they made excur-
otS INTO Argentina, stealing, burn
and killing. At every raid the
stricken ranchmen fled toward
titles, SO that year by year the
Nt-er line of that republic receded
ward the Capitol instead of advanc-
ill.,
tlesdent Roca-then a general of
tyalfy who had won some renown in
lie var against Lopez, the tyrant OF
laTaguay-WaS sent out with three
7Hments to discipline the Indians"
aoj this is how he did it; while the In
AaAS were enjoying their customary
winter picnic he set three Thousand
'oders to digging an enormous ditch
''~nty feet wide and fifteen feet deep
the way from the mountains to the
"'o Negro and gave the diggers partic'
-af orders to scatter abroad the earth
N the excavation in such a manner
IN cave no evidence of their work
heh the ditch was completed he