The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1911-01-28
LET US MINE
OUR OWN COAL
SOUTH AMERICA LOOKS GOOD.

the Argentine Republic during the
past year, celebrating its one hun
dredth birthday as free state and
doing honors to her heroes, who
fought, lived and died in her war of
independence of 1910, is still fresh
in the minds of the public. The
country at the present time called
the Argentina was discovered by
Juan de Soils while looking for a
passage to the Pacific in 1903; he
sailed up and explored the Rio de la
Plata and again in 1926.
Following him came Sebastian Ca
bot, who explored the Parana and
Paraguay rivers in 1926.
Pedro de Mendoza in 1886 found
ed the first settlement, now known
as Buenos Ayres, but it was shortly
afterwards destroyed by Indians, and
in 1875 Juan de Garay was appoint
ed first governor of those provinces
by Spain.
In 1910 the war of independence
against Spain broke out, headed by
Don Manuel Belgrano, General Jose
de San Martin and Admiral Gueller-
MO Brown. The Spanish troops
were defeated on land and water,
but it was not until 1914, when
Spain finally was obliged to abandon
the fort of Monterido, their last
stronghold in the River Plata prov
inces.
South America has of late been
interesting the American public to
the extent of establishing Bureau
of South American Republics in
Washington, D. C. Although these
sister republics owe, one might say,
their lives, in a sense, in the past
years, to the United States Ii. e. the
Monroe Doctrine), the commercial
relations are not great. Now, al
though the Latin-American republics |
have been slow both in material and |
intellectual progress in the past, the
Argentinas can at least look with |
pride over their hundred years of ex-
istence as a free state. The other |
nations must realize what wonderful |
development that country has gone |
through in the last hundred years. |
If the Argentina goes on at the pres
ent rate of progress she will in the
near future be rival to the United
States for the supremacy of the
world in the value of exports and the |
winning of foreign markets.
Now the Europeans have been
more interested in the past in the
progress of South America and there
were very few publications in the
different countries of Europe that did
not have from time to time articles
dealing and discussing the present
outlook of affairs in the Argentina
and other South American republics.
Especially the Italian economists,
who have taken the lead in attempt
ing to point out the immense posi-
bilities that both labor and capital
may find in the southern republics.
Professor E. Lorini has recently
published an article in the "Nuova
Antologia" (Rome), which contains
a reliable account of the substantial
attachments of the Argentina, its
wonderful prospects and still more
wonderful advancement during the
last hundred years
With a population of scarcely six
million of people. her exports for
the year 1909 were nearly four hun
dred million dollars against three
hundred million for imports. The
exports of the Argentina are nearly
all from "the SOIL" as one might say.
Wheat to the extent Of nearly four
million tons; maize (corn) over a
million tons, and the same quantity
of fax.
OF the other products there were
100000 tons of wool, 100000 head
of cattle, over 100000 tons Of pre-
served meat and 10000 tons Of but
ter. The total production of butter