New-York tribune., 1904-09-08
THE PASSING THR0NG.

Colonel Henry Watterson is passing a part of
his vacation at Manhattan Beach Seen tbs
Hoffman, House. he said II quit
WHAT the activities OF politics IN 1892 ex-
wATTERsoN ceptiag as they are related to my
DOES. newspaper work and shall keen
within that Limitation during the
present campaign. stiIl keep in close touch with
Affairs OF The courier-JournaI but no longer feel
II incumbent on me 10 the paper 20 press. I
now have farm ten miles out from Louisville on
which I 1--we the year round have everything
the farm that can contribute 10 my comfort-a
s9 s@llIlnEes pool. a nshinG ssnd truck garden
The electric ear line within a mile OF my
ofice n Louisville in haif Al hour but the
teiephons puts me in instantaneous comnunication;
run away 30 Europe OF come 20 Sew-york--
Benjamin Franklin Abbott. who has practised
law in Atlanta, Ca for about forty years. Is IN
the city Seen at Tho Fifth Avenue
GROWTH OF Hotel. Ar. Abbott said: THE city
ATLANTA OF Atlanta is growing IN population
and industrial importance at
marvellous pace The OF 1900 credited US
with 5000 souls. while have fully is 900
within the corporate limits, and II the contiguous
suburban section be included the pOulaiicn Is cer-
tainly 1900. Atlanta attracts population because
OF it's exceptional hsalthfuluess and its schools
unsurpassed. II IS the centre OF things and the
gateway to the South. It is the great insurance
centre and the small manufacturing plants IN
many lines being multiplied. The great steel
structures in the skysoraper class that have been
built recently will compare favorably with those
erected in New-YorE. and Just now great union
will involve an outlay OF $io00Oo0. Il VIII compcrt
structures and public buildings that have made
Atlanta essentially up 10 date city and the
The banks have an abundance of money and At
lanta was never so prosperous az al the present
time"
Arthur Lsfrten Is a native Of Stockholm. Sweden.
who has Just concluded third visit TO America.
Mr.. Lenten. who is mechanical
PROGRESS IN engineer. spent the years ISso-'St in
ELECTRICAL the United States and again In
WORKS. 1898 came to this country as the
commissioner general or Sweden TO
the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Seen at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel AIR Lefften said; Since my
arrival In this country have visited the Worlds
Fair at ST. Louis ana as I have recently built 4
great electric power plant in Sweden | was much
m .ss m at shown al chicago The progress
that has been made in the mean time. both in the
devoted and the methods OF Transmitting power,
has been enormous The cheap creation & or power over
in Sweden. where must import every pound OF
coal consume We have the natural water
power. and its conversion into electrical potential.
ity means much in the industrial deyeooment or
economical development OF power
Alfred Bentz OF the Province OF Santa Fe. in the
Argentine Republic is guest at the Giisey House.
AIr. Benitz is a Californian, who
RANCHING went 10 South America thirty
IN years ago, and embarked In
ARGENTINA ranchns. the business in which
he is engaged. The Prov
ince OF Santa Fe." said Mr.. Benitz 'fs directly
north Of the Province OF Buenos Ayres. and I
about two hundred and fifty miles north OF the
city of Buenos Ayres Oar ranch products
shipped for Refrigeration and expectation to the
European market. The chief soil product of Santa
re Province is wheat. and the acreage under cuI-
tivation is constantly Increasing The crops for
the last two or three years have been very good,
the yield varies from ter to thirty bushels the
acre. The value of land in Santa Fe Province
employed IN either grain growing or grazing is
from Sl2 TO SIS acre while that nearer to
natural growth of the land is clover. which makes
good pasJurage. but the vast sown TO
alfalfa the growth OF which is more prolific
than in any other part OF the world. 1t is not
grown 10 be harvested but our cattle are
turned IN upon it, and require no other feed
for fatteung, The rancher In Argentina buys his
lands outright and either fences il or herds his
cattle upon his own domain. Land areas are meas
ured by the league, which is ten square miles or
six thousand four hundred acres. The average
ranch in the interior IS about ten leag1es. while
those in the more settled sections where alfalfa
IS grown about two and a half leagues in
extent. Cotton Is now being cultivated north OF
the country in which I am located The soil is
the climate is favorable. II there is any obstacle
10 be encountered il is the heavy rains that
in March and April. which correspond with Ocro-
her November this