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meat. One-half of the whole republic
consists Of plains that slope down to the
Amazon and Orinoco rivers, and these are
now raising something like 100000 cat
tie The Cauca valley alone could supply
enough chocolate TO glDt the markets of
the world. and there are extensive re-
gions along the Caribbean fitted for cof-
fee. On the lowlands of this coast the
United Fruit Company now has vast
plantations of bananas. the product Of
which it is shipping to England and the
United States. The exports run into the
millions of punches year, and they are
carried away to New York in steamers of
5000 tons. each having accommodations
for 100 iirst-ciass passengers They have
steamers to Europe which make the run
in about fourteen days.
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understand that there are valuable
deposits of petroleum on the northern
coast of Colombia. In coming to Panama 1
Travelled with a Californian who owns a
tract of 10000 acres not far from Carta-
gena He says that il is underlaid with
oil and that there is oil all along the
coast. and here and there throughout the
West Indies. This man has been ali over
South America investigating the oil fields
He tells me that our sister continent has
probably more petroleum than we ever
had. and that the most of it is yet to be
exploited. He describes the oil fields of
Colombia, as being SO close to the sea
board that the oil can be easily piped into
the steamers. So far the country is I'M
developed, but American oil men have
been coming in, and a thirty-year con-
cession has been granted to a tract of oil
fields 100 miles long and 60 miles wide
in the department of Santander The
owners have agreed to work this field and
to put UP one or more refineries. and the
government has promised to admit free of
duty all necessary materials. Arrange
ments are now being made for an oil re-
finery and warehouse at the port of Car
tagena.
The mineral possibilities of Colombia
correspond with those of Alaska 1t
WAS there that Balboa found his first
gold. when the Indians told him of the
treasures over the mountains that were
afterward opened up by Pizarro. Since
that day more than 10000 900 dollars
worth of gold has been taken out of Co
lombia, and there are mines in a half
dozen different states which are now
paving well. The great gold-bearing
regions are in the mountains of the
Choco and Antioquia provinces. and in
the ranges between the Cauca and Mag
dalena rivers. This area covers thou
sands of square miles and gold is said
to be found wherever there is gravel.
Back in the mountains, where the rock
has been laid bare, there are gold veins
everywhere that require only modern ma
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eleven days to have made the less than
500 miles between the two ports. whereas
the Huallasa made il in less than three.
The Manayi is ii little British boat of Leo
tons. and its passenger rates are over IL
cents a mile. The fare from Panama Ia
Guayaquil is S.. 81. 1t is so high that If
You had to pay at the same rate. il
would cost you $500 to cross the Atlantic
from the United States TO Europe. and
something like 500 TO go from san Fran
cisco To Shanghai. have bought a
through passage from Panama to Callao.
Peru, on this steamer and have paid for
il just about 500 The distance direct is
only l,346 miles. or about far as from
New York to New Orleans d trip that
can be made by rail for less than one
third the amount.
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And still 1 like these Peruvian steam
part of the world. The cabins are large
and they open out upon deck with large
windows and doors You can sit
in your room as though on a
porch, and look out over the ocean, and
the windows and doors can be kept open
both day and night. The ship carries
much of its own live stock on board, and
I awake every morning thinking | am
on my mountain farm i'll Virginia. There
is a growing of roosters and a cacklins
of geese and ducks. We carry about 2o
fowls on board, and the stewards gather
the eggs every morning. The omelet |
had for breakfast today was almost fresh
from the hen. and it was far better than
the cold storage egg that one gets at
Uncle Sans hotels on the isthmuS.
We have breakfast at II clock, which
my boy Carl says is Il peach of Il time
for the meal. The times of eating here
are strictly Latin American. They begin
with desayuno. which is a cup of black
coffee and a cracker served in your room
upon rising. After that comes almuerzZo
or the first breakfast. at IL, consisting of
a soup and fish. steak OF eggs, with ba-
nanas and oranges at the close. We have
tea at O'Clock in the afternoon, and at
Z table d'hote dinner. The cooking is
Spanish, and is not at all bad. The
walters are natives. and the bills of fare
are in Spanish, so that Carl takes his die
tionary to the table TO order his meals.
The Huallaga has just about 5000 tons.
1t is a new boat made in France about
two years ago. 1t burns oil as fuel, and
it can make sixteen knots an hour 1t is
very steady and is exceedingly comforta-
BILE
Just now We are moving RAPIDLY down
the west coast of Colombia, but SO far
out that the land cannot be seen. 1t is
only the small steamers like the Mauavi
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of the railroad will be to carry this coal
down to the Pacific ocean, where il viii
command a high price. The road will
eventually connect with the other rail-
roads Of the country. and will probably
some day he SO extended as to reach
Bogota.
You people of North America have no
idea of the possibilities right under your
noses Colombia is your next-door South
American neishhor and it will pay you
to cultivate it. Its people now have
strained relations with the United States,
because they think Uncle Sam look adj
vantage OF them in regard to the Pana-
ma canal. 1t is very much "A question
whether they have been equitably treat
ed and it will pay the United States to
make a treaty with such terms Will
satisfy them. The Hon. James I. Du Bots.
our last minister to Colombia, had such
negotiations We'll under way before the
present administration came in and if
they can still he consummated il viii be
of great benefit to the two republics. 1t
would also improve standing with
all of the other South Aerican countries
But before / go farther let tell you
Just where Colombia is and something of
what it contains. II is lust across the
Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
The shortest distance between it and our
country is not far as from Philade-
phia to Chicago Tampa, Fla. is as near
to Cartagena as New York is to St.
Louis, and from that Colombian port TO
steaming. From Barrenquilla to New
York is less than 1900 miles and the trip
can be easily made in five days. By
way of the canal Boston can reach the
west coast of Colombia by steaming a
little over 200o miles, and the whole of
this coast is nearer our Atlantic sea-
board than any part of Pacific North
America.
And then look at the size of the coun-
try. Colombia has d coast line of about
100 miles on each ocean. From south TO
north it is longer than from New Orleans
to ST Paul, and from east to west in
places it is wider than from Baltimore
to Chicago. 1t is larger than all the At
lantic coast states, with Ohio and West
Virginia added 1t is nine times the size
of New York and ten times as big as
Kentucky. 1t is bigger than Germany,
France, Holland and Belgium combined
and Notwithstanding it is almost the
equator. the most of the land is SO high
above the sea that white men can live
in it and the soil will produce crops that
have steady market i'll Europe and in
North America.
Colombia has pasture lands which may
make ii one of our future sources of
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women are born to the saddle and accus-
TONED to horses from our babyhood. so
came naturally by this equestrian ambi-
ton OF mine
Il say that l am an enthusiastic horse
woman. My habits OF the past two wears
however. hardly prove my statement I
haven l been on a horse during my entire
residence in Washington But INV en-
thusiasm has not Jagged for a minute
AS l see riders go past my house on
their way 10 the park or as they pass me
when l am out in my slowly crawling
eieetilc envy them from the bottom OF
my heart Washington offers such splen-
did Inducements in the way OF beautiful
ROADS and bride paths TO the devotee of
horseback riding that l wonder why
see comparatively So few riders about
town.
nen II comes to place to ride
do love our free open west with its
sweeps OF sky and mountains distantly
bordering the plains. The horses out
there have 10 pick their way over I'M
peaten and little known territory: charm
OF adventure and exploration lies in every
riding experience
We DO not have the same kind Of
horses out west that one sees in the east.
No Kentucky thoroughbreds ever kick up
the turf on our remote bride paths We
RIDE on Indian ponies, called by the ma
tive name 'cayuse. They are alert. sure
footed little animals that can be trusted
implicitly to carry one successfully over
the sharp turns in the mountain passes
l suppose that they resemble the South
American llama in this respect more than
any other mountain animal Some Of
them are white. others are spotted They
are not especially pretty to look at, but
they are at least dependable, and that
is more to be desired.
Here in Washington with Mr.. Borah
during the congressional sessions / have
to content myself with the electric ma
chine. but. oh, II seems SO slow when one
Iea.s for swift-footed horse! have a
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laughingly, but he was guessing until
the last minute
Mrs. Borah says that the state of Idaho
is one of the most unique places in the
world
Boiling artesian wells all over the
state" she explained, supply us with our
heat. Our houses are piped with the reg
ulation hot-watel- heating pipes and radi-
ators The boiling water from these
springs is piped into the houses. and we
get the heat without expense or the dirt
of coal fires. In the summer. of course,
the water continues boiling under the
ground. Then have to empty the
pipes and turn off the radiators
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Idaho until lately was not very fer
tile because it was difficult to get water
to carry out the irrigation system. When
my father first became governor of the
state he amazed every one by declaring
that he had plan for irrisating the
state with the boiling water from these
ever-fiowing artesian wells. All of the
people thought he was crazy until he
finally carried out his plan and demon
strated that it could be done.
He built huge reservoirs hrs. Borah
went on to say, had this hot water run
into them and cooled. Then through an
outlet the cooled water was sent all
was needed With this accomplished,
everything in Idaho is blooming.
1t is extremely difficult for the eastern
er to get the right conception of our
west. 1t is quite impossible to get accus-
toned to it at first. The greatness OF
things is appalling.
This summer l had some eastern girl
friends to visit Mr.. Borah and me p.
camp we had beside one of our pictur
esque mountain lakes. We We're abso-
great mountain was our back yard and
this lake was at our front. The
only way we could get to the town was
by boat across the entire length of the
lake
ooh" exclaimed Mrs. Borah, "how my
friends did dislike it. They thought 1t
was the slowest place they had ever been
to- We had "a motor boat and frequent
ly went canoeing. but they were bored.
1t was so totally unlike the hustle and
hustle of their eastern shore resorts. |
love to have the wolves and coyotes sing
me to sleep. l like also the great quiet
of things in the mountain camps.
We go out frequently ON long trips
of this sort, itinerant camping, as il
were. l remember an automobile tour
last year with some of the members Of
my family. We went wherever our fancy
directed, slept under the stars and de-
pended the Indians for food. They
brought us berries and game.
THE pleasure of this particular trip
was marred slightly for me because it
was taken d3'ing the hunting season
and the Inlans We're out for their annual
hunt. They stay their reservations
all of the year except during this season
They snoop around with their snoopy
dogs and always make me feel very
creepy
"One hears so many tales of the In
dians that many people think that fear
of them is innate. BY my feeling
toward them is not one of fear. 1t is
simply that hate TO have people come
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velop professional ambition OF even
work one out. That is why | have to
admit of my childish fancies when
am asked where my tastes would lead
me in the world of endeavor. l have
been married fifteen wears. The fam
lily consists of Mr.. Borah and myself"
Here she was interrupted by the tril-
ling of a canary in the next room
Hush" she warned. as she explained
that her pets were sometimes disliked
because they sang so loudly. Il have
two birds and they sing bea utifully. /
guess l shall have TO include them in
nay family, too
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is an example of the condition of af-
fairs that formerly prevailed. But
Idaho is losing all of that frontier
fierceness and in our cities We are TAX
ing on a metropolitan air that would
surprise our eastern visitors
Mrs. Borah was married shortly after
she left school. before she had time,
as she says. to formulate any profess
sional ambition.
Il think every girl at some time in
her life thinks that there is one thing
she would rather do above all others.
WAS married SO soon after gradual
ing that | had no time in which TO de.
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great deal of pleasure, nevertheless with
the machine. ! take little trips out in
the country, and / find il boon when
am still too weak to walk long distances
Mrs. Borah is al present recuperatins
from the effects of a serious illness. She
Is participating very little this season IN
the social activities of the capital. Not
as the wife of an Idaho senator did She
make her initial bow to Washington So
ciety. Mrs Borahs father. as well as
her husband. was senator. She was Il
young girl in her teens during his term
OF ONCE and away at boarding school
most OF the time. But her real ac-
quaintance with the capital began when
she came here with Mr.. Borah.
only three other wonen-Mrs Hal,
Mrs Elkins and Mrs. Oherlin-can claim
with Mrs Borah the distinction of hal-
ing both father and husband members of
the United States Senate.
Mrs Borah IS slightly built woman
usually associated with the vigorous
women O. her part of tine country Her
voice is soft and her manner calm ana
reserved She has reddish golden hair
and blue eyes \ shaded blue chiffon
scarf draped about her shoulders accen-
tuated the depth Of the blue of her eyes
she made a very pretty picture as Size
sat in an old-fashioned colonial chair be-
side the open fireplace in the drawing
room of her uptown apartment.
am an Alice-Sit -The-Fire this
season. she said II have not even
kept up my membership i'll the Congress
sional Club. | do Very little socially
Every week I have the young boys and
girls who are here from Idaho attending
school come III and dance.
1 play the piano very indiffereItly
am afraid but | prided myself lp until
recently that what l did play was at least
considered good music. Well, these yuung
friends said to me one evening Mrs
Borah. Your music is awfully out of date
Why don't you get some of the new
lie We can
dance to the things you play SO they
Drought me all OF the new iishwalks and
one-steps Now | am right UP to the
minute on the music question.
DO ] dance these new dances myself?
No. | must admit that have not even
started 10 master the intricacies of the
tango thus far This is not because |
am excessively serious. In fact | am
quite frivolous. AS young girl / know
that l was not as studious as | should
have been AT school and college / was
always out for fun more than study.
California is my horne state. and 1 re-
ceived most of my education in the west.
I went first to Portland. Ore. to boarding
school. then to college in California and
later at Elmira, n. y.
Il think college education is a spleu-
did thing for a woman. With the grow
ing feminine interest in national affairs
of government and sociology it is neces-
sary that women have wen deve,oped
basis of understanding of them Yet. on
the other hand. have known women
who were fine thinkers and managers
who never saw the inside of a college
A great many of our western women To-
day are not college women. They read
with their husbands and discuss the in
teresting questions uppeTmost in the pub
nc mind aud IN this way become almost
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~ .SPITE the protests of his son and
number of his friends, Marechal
Hermes da Fonseca, president of
Brazil. was married recently to young
lady. member of a prominent Brazilian
family nearly thirty years his junior.
1t was the first time president Of the
South American republic ever had mar
ried while holding office. His son and the
friends who, according to cabied reports.
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up unexpectedly here and there about
me from behind trees when ! am out on
camping trip. Then, too. the Indians
on the plains are not clean about their
bodies. They have much TO learn yet.
Our state is very peaceful now. Up
until a couple of years ago the mining
classes gave US great deal of trouble.
We have many foreigners who are
easily excited and ready at a moment
notice to avenge a fancied grievance.
A recent case which attracted national
attention, where of the miners
hung a bomb on the governors gate
that exploded and killed him instantly
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tried to persuade the president from tax
ing unto himself wife at this time con-
tinued their efforts up to the last minute.
but unsuccessfully. His four-year term
as president of Brazil will expire Noyem-
Der II next, and he cannot be reelected
to succeed himself for successive term
The first photograph showing the we'd
ding of Brazils ruler has just reached
this country. The ceremony took place
in the Palacio Flo Negro, a stately old
building in Petropolis. the summer CAPT.
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was my earliest
girlhood ambition, y
said Mrs. William
F. Borah. wife of
the senator from
] d a h o, "a n d l
yearned to be one
OF the real bare
back variety. This
sounds very ex-
travagant. 1 know,
but we western
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tai up in the hills not many miles AWAY
from Rio de Janeiro. the capital. After a
civil ceremony by Judge Tocatins of Pc
tropolis the religious portion was per
formed by Cardinal Joaquin Arcoverde.
the only cardinal in Brazil. The bride
Senhorita Nair de Teffe-is thirty years of
age and the daughter of Baron DE-. Teffe a
distinguished member of the senate OF Bra
iii and also of "a prominent family which
has furnished many officials Of variou.
ranks 10 The country.
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as well acquainted with them as their
colleee-bred neighbors.
Il think that a woman's experience in
whatever line of endeavor she may be in
will qualify her to determine her attitude
toward a great many political questions.
Household duties. though one often looks
askance at them. are just as good mind
sharpeners other responsibilities with
Understanding names. The college
woman is more apt To become leader,
but as far as the women of the ranks
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chinerN and ne'nods ior INC cktrac,Ioa
OF the metal Muyh q ms 'err't"s
mas never neef eNPit'" 'N1tpi ~ 20
INDIANS. mere y aiso s"ia IN W, ue
raf'hieht OF .Natalio, ""i ~ i s on ..
DOR. ana soio husee'S ~. t"u''u ~ ''e
htaNei "ees Va ~ -. -, - ''.s
'l"n Nh.cn Ho~ mo - ~, e,.l,.
!. r.,,,...,,,,, - ~, ss,,.,.a ~. Of
80. ,,t.n ~ bfsi, ,,., ~ 80
,,o,,n,s,ns ,a'o ,,t,,s abo,.. s.s level
This lake has a dss,osit az mud ,hoit
thirty faet ,iaen Of mo hoito,,l that is
hsi;e,sd 20 @on,ai,, a.faptiti.s Of cold
in,.g.s ,otd nia,.s an5 ..l.g aust mat
were nizced ther, ~ tho INDIANS before
and since Columbus discovered America.
According TO th,a tradition the Ind
came 10 the shores Of the lake and
the chief. who first took a hath IN soli
III, - "a - -,
shares out to the center Of The LAX"
Here his SUBJECTS washed the gold dust
from ms hoa& ana threw the S"'dch 81
roIasn ;r's,os -. psr,,,a n,tct 40
said to have come from Lake s.ustaVts.
and l know that gold images have been
nus ~ rom rs shores Tor a s.ifr r..
fards have ,riad ~ 6rain ~. ial.e by
making a cut through the mountains
they nave always failed and now an
tss. =. nas @ott'h 4" Sohees
through the rronn.,in u.ati ,,nier-
stand that a great part % the lake has
already been drained. and the treasure
tn e ,,;,,a ~ ,: s,on ~ ot ioL'"
they viii some dav bava ,b,. ,.ro,,cst
copper producing country Of the world
Copper ores are now found in ike differ
ahp,,, 70 ,,,o ~ -, ~ T -
is navigable for this whole distance. win
the exception Of a short stretch OF rapids
The copper there is in low mountains
bordering the stream, and the mining
engineers say il can lie worked at q
profit.
tn. .,,arol.3 nina !. ,.,,t.,,,,,,;., 80,
- -'''''' - uioiii'i.i a. sam
TO be the richest of the whole world.
They belong TO the state and are worked
+bro,,ah o,roassio,,., q. ,,,a. ,.,i..,-
''i'e
- the raw private parues are now pro-
hibited from claiming any emerald they
may discover and those which hav, been
,io.d e, - -,
iH y "oi heu ~
paying the government SGodvo year
from the time the mining begins.
Tho 10. a,,ar.,s ,,,,,,e.
those OF Muzo, about seventy-fve miles
from Bogota. Here the stones have been
deposited in the bowl of an extinct vol
cano r,a,. 49, -, - ~
edao' iHef are ouS oui OF the crater
by iaborers. who break the lava along
a fixed line uncovering the trail Of green
auartz tb.t oo,..tns - ,..., ,r,.i.
'.'' ms
quartz is then taken out with great care.
The gems are extracted from the matrix
and the debris f.us in,a e,,f..,,,.,,.
where II IS washed by water dropping
down from the higher planes of the mine
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that call at the ports on that coast and
this will be the case until the Panama
canal is opened
There are half dozen Colombian ports
on the Pacific. the largest OF which are
Buenaventura and Temuco. Neither of
these has over 900 population. Most of
the other ports have good landing
places. and at some YOU have to be car
rled on shore on the backs of negroes.
Nevertheless. l am told that the harbors
are good. and that they will be improved
as soon as the canal is i'll use.
Buenaventura will probably be the chief
port on the west coast of Colombia The
town is built on island. which lies at
the head of the bay about eight miles
from the sea, and at the mouth of the
Dagua river. BY dredging. the harbor
can easily be made an excellent one: and
the ilrm of $. Pearson & Son of London
mas Just made a contract with the Co
Iomblan government for surveys with a
View to its improvement In this con-
tract they are to get S25,Go for the
plans and estimates of the cost of con-
struction. The proposed improvements
include clearing and anchorage ground
OF more than mile long and about half
a mile wide. and also new city in
Guiding its waterworks and a system of
sanitation and paving All of the plans
are based upon a city of $4,000 inhabi-
tants, and by the contract they have to
be ready on or before August ~. 1914
The Buenaventura of the present has
only 2,Vo people, that this will give
YOU some idea of what is expected in the
way of growth from the opening of the
canal.
Buenaventura has already a railroad
winch is being built over the mountains
INTO the great valley of the Cauca river
This road is owned by Americans. 1t be
gins at the harbor and will go over a