The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-21

lowing thelr foresight dllu SoOu management. The definition of gentle man herein implied may be somewhat open to question, otherwise the state ment gives very good idea of the situation. The latter do ont return to England every summer on visit, have fewer fads and fancies, will use Ameri- can machinery when 1t is proved to them that it will do twice as much work with less men than the English, and in many other ways display more "horse sense" than the born gentleman. Most of these are making money faster than they can count it.
 The others are making money, too, but because they cannot help it rather than for any other reason. They farm sa gentlemen farm in England, and their kennels and stables and fancy cattle and their imposing but antiquat- ed agricultural machinery are respon- -ible for a substantial deficit every year which, however, their thousands of rec- tares of land out to Italian tenantry regularly make good, and with some to spare. Over and above this the seadily increasing value of their land incident to the growth of the country is doub- ling and trebling their wealth every few years.
 There is nothing like an Argentine grain train anywhere else in the world, and the sight of one on the move is alone worth a trip to the pampas. They are specially designed for this country and could be used in no other One of them would be far too wide to pass through an English lane far too long to turn an ordinay crossroads corner in the States and far too heavy to be used in any country wher horses were not at bedrock prices A good sized wagon will be from 40 to 50 feet long and from F to 15 feet wide. Its hind wheels will be from 12 to IA feet high and the drivers seat 20 feet or more from the ground.
 The horses used appear innumerable and actually at times run above two and three score. They are driven either by the jerk line" system com mon in southern California and the San Joaquin Valley or by reins run out to the leading pair. The capacity of one of these vehicles is enormous, and the general rule of "a wagonload makes a carload" will not often be found amiss- The principal idea of so large a wagon is to have somthing that will not be en- gulfed by the mud or dust of the bottomless roads of the pampas, but it also has its economic advantages in a country where men are scarce and horses plentiful.
 The gaucho of the pampas is the counterpart of our cowboy of the plains and the boundary rider of the Aus tralian "back blocks" and his Is in many ways quite as attractive charc- ter as either of his brothers. His worst fault seems to be his extreme care- lessness in regard to the lives of those around him, but as he is equally care- less of his own, I cannot see where this can logically be held against him. As a handler of stock he is possibly the peer of a Queensland drover, but is cer- tainly not to be mentioned in the same breath with Texas, Arizona or Mon- tana cowboy, nor with the best of Mex lean vaqueros.
 had arrived at this conclusion in my own mind from the first time had seen what were said to be expert gau- chos working out at a roundup; hence I was the more pleased when, not long ago, a bunch of half a dozen Texas cowboys came to this country on an exhibition tour and demonstrated to the satisfaction of everybody. that, both in method and execution, in the hand ling of cattle and horses, the North Amgerican is far superior to the South American.
 I say demonstrated to the satisfaction of everybody; as matter of fact, it was to the extreme dissatisfaction. of every one but the Anglo-Saxons The average Argentinian is quite lacking in anything resembling a sporting instinct and he took it very hard when he saw his representatives so completely out classed in a kind of work he had fondly imagined, in his ignorance, that they were supreme. At no branch of their work did the cowboys not make the gauchos appear fairly ludicrous in com parison. Tn roping and tying and at breaking and riding untamed steers, horses and miles, the work of the Americans was neat and expeditions; that of the Argentinians and Uruguay ans, clumsy and slow
 A cowboy would rope and tie a steer in from thirty to forty seconds so deft- ly that it could be released by a single pull. where the gaueho would spend five minutes smotherings the animal in coil of rope. from which a sudgi- cal operation was usually required to release it. Buenos Ayreans found the dose hard one to swallow, but the best of them finally got it down and admitted that their men were outolass- ed at their own game. The English pa, pers stood up manfully for the worthy Texan visitors-raoe pride, no doubt but the Argentinians were obdurate to the last, continuing doggedly to insist that the natives had all the best of the competitions.