The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-12-23

rom Rio Janiero to Buenos Ayres
ny inland water route. In fact, prac-
tieally all OF South America can be
seen in a canoe or a launch.
Brazil is nothing but a fringe
OF civilization along the Atlantic
Sea coast and it's principal rivers.
For the rest it is more absolutely
dead to the knowledge of the world
than the darkest spots in Africa.
have travelled through forests of
ebony, mahogany, ivory wood and
other varities of timber that would
cover entire states in this country.
But the wood stays there; it is too
heavy and too dense to float, and a
sawmill would do as we'll in cutting
granite.
Il have seen great ebony timbers,
several feet in diameter, submerged
IN the water. Some Of this timber
Is taken up and floated by means of
tlelng it to the lighter woods. Its
value is enormous and there are
thousands of square miles of it to be
had, practically for the asking. In
these great jungles are found the
boa constructor. Some of them are
so feet long and they are invariably
encountered across the trails in
spots where the sun penetrates,
swinging from trees. They are not
considered dangerous by the ma
tives, but we had to kill several of
them before l would venture to
walk under them.
The natives in the untraveled
districts of Brazil-and that Includes
practically all of the interior coun-
try-impressed me as being of Jap
anese origin. They have the silent
eyes of the Japanese, but their heads
are abnormally large. AS rule
they are peaceful. / came across a
tribe which had peculiar methods of
warfare. They fight with blow
guns. This weapon is like the or
binary spit ball blower of this
school boys. The warriors will take
a piece of wild cotton and wrap it
around thorn so as to make the
thorn fit the blow gun tightly. But,
first, the thorn is dipped into the
DOlSnn nf a rnnti1n
master, the most venimous snake to
be encountered. l have seen the ma
tiyes hit dollar with a shot from
the blow gun at SO yards. When
they blow a shot at an enemy they
usually hit, and a hit means death
in five minutes"
Senator Hallett went up the Am
AEON river as far as Iquitos, Peru.
On his journey he stopped at vii
lage in the state of Cerea and here
a church was pointed out to him,
built more than hundred years
ago by native as an act of penance
for the murder of his brother. The
church was built solidly of quartz
brought from mine rs miles dis
tant. The quartz was alive with
free gold, not only visible to the
naked eye, but prominently streak
ed all through the rock.
Until the discovery of gold in
California" said Senator Hallet,
Brazil produced s700,00O,O00 in
gold from her placer mines alone.
The alluvial deposits along the Am
AEON and it's tributaries have been
pretty we'll worked out, but under
the shallow water there are hun
dreds of thousands of acres which
have never been touched. OH of this
placer land can be worked by dredge,
similar to the system employed in
Summit county.
Brazil contains, in the way OF
farming lands mineral wealth and
timber resources, coal and other de-
posits, everything that the United
States possesses, and the fact that
the European emigrants are rs years
behind the times is responsible for
the undeveloped condition of the
country. Its present inland develop
ment, insignificant as it is, it owes to
England, Germany and France, each
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