El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-06

-rAsHINGTON, D. c., Dec. Eek
NJ president Roosevelt is about 70
w start upon his expedition into
the tropical interior of south America
He already has visited the civilized
sections of the three greatest countries
of our sister continent, and has de-
livered addresses in Argentina, Chlle
and Brazil He has Travelled over nc
vast coffee plantations ABOUT -, -,
Paulo. has ridden with the gauchos OF
cowboys over the pampas OF aIseH
tina. and has hunted the Wlld AI Il.l i
can ostriches in the desert OF a.
eonia. He mas climbed the Ah9eS'
crossed over into the progressive Jul
moose country OF Chlle, anu HlS-uS t
yvav nv rail north and south through
that shoe string republic he mas seen
the best in modern progress lhat SoOu ,-
America has to offer, and IS reaoy ~
that part of the continent Whlch toQas
is practically as wild as II was WASu
IMAM dc. soils first made his way up
the Rio de Ia Plata, ana Wheh FIIl]On
dicoVere5 the mouth OF the Amazon
Is Land of Big Rivers.
South America has the greatest river rive.
basins on earth, and it As IN the basins
of the two largest OF them. tnaI Nj
Roosevelt is TO travel The Whole cas-
ern and central half Of the continent -
COMPOSED of enormous river Valleys anu
plains and plateaus- Ine OIIHoco ~ - .
beginning in Venezuela, is longer than
from New York to Omaha. II flows
north and its head waters are IN bI4 49,
so near those Of the Rio Negro no no
YOU can carry a canoe across from Oiie
stream to the other. ana sraTrlng IN az
tbe Carfbbean sea cross Venezuela ana
Brazil and come out into the Allau1i0
ocean. The Rio Negro enters the ANA
son 1000 miles from its. mouth II lto"S
in Just below the city OF Mahaos' -
IL a.-rs
moving along side by side with lhe
yellow waters of the Amazon. 1hey
flow together for some miles oeLOLS
they mix, and then the black dlsap-
pears It is now 10 years since t-l,, " en-. M
a thousand miles up the Amazon anu
entered the mouth Of the Rio Negro,
The latter is an immense stream aio
at its mouth it seems as large as the
Amazon itself
III is not FAR from the mouth OF the
Rio Negro that the Madeira flows lnto
the Amazon, and one can go up tnaC
river during the rainy season dDouI %
far as from New Orleans to st LOUIS
This is 10 the falls of san Antonio by
taxing a boat around the falls he could
20 into the Benz and Mamore, Two OF
the branches which reach TO .BollNld'
and by a short portage from the A!d-
more get into the PilcOmayo, winch
flows into the Parana system L nave
seen the PilcOmayO where 1t enters the
Paraguay river in the Gran Chaco, some
distance above the Argentine boundary
and have Travelled up the Paraguay al
most to the plaeau Of Matte Crosse
where rises the Tapajos river, another
tributary of the Amazon, which IS
about 1900 miles long, / passed the
mouth of the TapajOs when L traVeled
up the Amazon in 1898 It IS ABOUT 0ug
miles from Para and about an equal
distance from ManaOs and the mouth
Of the Rio Negro
Route Not Decided Upon.
1t has not been reported as yet
which of these courses eXpresident
Roosevelt Will take in making his way
from the Parana system to that OF the
Amazon. He might go up the Parana
and Paragua and enter the PilcOmayo,
but it is more probable that he VIII
travel up the Paraguay river to It's
source and thence trek across country
and 20 into TapajOs and float down
that stream for 1900 miles into the
mighty Mother of Waters"
He can go almost TO the source OF