The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-18
City NEWS
AMERICANS THRIVE
IN SOUTH AMERICA
MINNEAPoLIs MEN TELLS Elk
PERIENCEs IN ARGENTINE.
Practical Men arm as Much There in
Three Months as They Make Here in
Year-Land Has Odd Features.
London Loses Rank for Cheapness.

Advantages and disadvantages Of life
in Argentina, South America, for a
wide-awake American are entertaining
ly told by Q. A. Johnson, mining part
ner Of G. r. Nimmons, who yesterday
returned from Bnenos Aires. On the
whole, Mr.. johnson concludes that
while Argentina is a good country. for
a man who wants to make money fast,
Minneapolis is in no danger of losing in
population on that account. Minneapo.,
lis even has advantages over good old
London in some respects. q.
Mr.. Johnson has found that practical
men can earn more money net by work
ing at their trades three months in Ar
gentina, paying passage, than by work
ing in the states year. -. r
What He Made.
ct threshed grain ninety days. said
Mr.. johnson today, "and was paid 100
pesas a month and 10 centavas fame
pa. This means about $40 in American
gold and cent and a quarter for every
222 pounds, or bushel OF grain threshed.
A man can make $500 a month in
gold in a good season. threshed
II, 900 bushels. Some men have made
ST. 300, which netted them 5000 after
travelling expenses.
Mr.. johnson lived in Hawley, MINI,
uuC1l 1SOO, S1uCo Nu1CH ClI1c nc nag
made headquarters in Minneapolis.
Last winter he worked 200 miles west
and south Of Buenos Aires, at Carlos,
| Casares.
"Buenos Aires is the largest shipping
port in America, not excepting New
York; he said today. "For ten miles
| up the river Rio Plate are the finest
| docks to be found and ships loading
and unloading three abreast on either
side. The docks are made Of cut
stone. Every thousand feet or so are
drawbridges crossing the river. The
docks are equipped with the latest
hydraulic cranes. The river is about
500 feet wide and will take boats of
twenty eight foot draught.
Rents Are High.
HReal estate values are high in
Buenos Aires. A bootblack and cigal
stand, about by 6 feet, rents fol
about $50 a month. When I left the
owner was talking about raising the
rent $24O year. Farm land near rail
roads sells for $50 to $75 an acre.
"I have farmed in North Dakots
and find that the Argentine land il
not so rich as the Dakota land. Ate.
has to be sown to alfalfa. The soil il
sandy loan. ..u- . q.
| Water Cuts Capers. r.. -.
"In the whole district Of Bueno
! Aires I saw. only two creeks. Tn
railroads have stol build no culverts 0
bridges, yet water is plenty. When W
J wanted water. for our threshing crew W
simply drove an inch -and3a- half PIP
On stock farms windmills are used t
pump water to tanks. A .pecullarlt:
of the. district is that wells four, fee
apart may have entirely different kind
of water. One may be fresh and tn
other salt. If the. wind blows mort
two or three days the water would b
fresh, and if it blew south for fey
DAYS the water would turn salt, and "
couldn It use it. Apparently, this d
not affect the crops, but at times Tn
stock won't drink the water.
Coming Shipping Port,
"Bahia Blanca, 200 miles south 9
Buenos Aires. on the Atlantic coast,
the coming distributing point for large
ships. six lines of road enter the cit.
| "Americans have practically,
monopoly Of the business in harvester
mowers and other agricultural impl
| ments. In the .threshing-machine li1
| we still have the English to compel
| with, but we Americans are doing the
as fast as we can: The threshlng M
chine company which leads obtained i
| foothold by sending down expert Anne
lean machine men, the Stinson boys
Morris, MINI. They sell machines, 81
them up and then watch their operatio,
When turned over to the natives tt
machines generally fail.'' ;"
Mems furnishing goods can be bougl
cheaper in Minneapolis than in Londe
or New York, if the experience Of M
:! Johnson is any criterion He came hon
> by way Of .London an NIB to OUT
! in London sell for about SO cents ::
Minneapolis, while the New York pri
IS between the two. Mr.. johnson r
mains loyal to Minneapolis, but he wi
spend next winter in Argentina.