Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-16
Cattle East of Andes May Yet Fill Our

borders Of the Psraguayan Chaco. There
are wild cattle also in northern Bolivia,
next to Brazil, very near the tract OF
100000 acres taken up by Murdo Mac.
kenzie and the Brazil Land and Cattle
company That tract has the best OF
pasture and it is already stocked with
10000 beef cattle.
Eastern Part the Hest.
During my stay in La Paz I have met
number Of explorers from eastern
Bolivia. l have also gone over the maps
with Or. Manuel Vicente Bolivian, the
head of the national bureau OF statistics
and the best posted man in the world
on the geography and resources OF this
country. DR.. Bolivian tells me that the
eastern part OF the republic Is by far the
best part OF it, and that It will some day
support vast population. He describes
it as we'll watered by tributaries Of the
Amazon and Parana. and as having a
rainfall well fitted for crops lie has
given me a report just received from DR.
Guillermo VelasCo concerning the coun-
try. DIR. Velasco has devoted many years
to the study Of this section, and in his
report he discusses the extension OF rail-
ways and the opening up of the mineral
resources.
Great Petroleum Deposits.
One OF the great possibilities lies in
the petroleum deposits Eastern Bolivia
has strip of land running north and
south for a distance of 900 miles where
the oil oozes out OF the ground and where
1t has been used by the Indians for gem
eratlons for lighting and burning A
number OF oil companies have already
been formed for the exploitation OF these
deposits. and concessions have been
granted to Americans and others to de-
velop some OF them Among the for
eigners who are interested in the region
is the Faruuehar syndicate, which has
vast properties in Paraguay and Brazil
and which has to do with the building
of the Madeira Marmore railroad, far up
the Amazon valley. Experimental wells
are now being put down, and the pros
pect Of discovering flowing wells is said
to be good. The chief difficulty will be
the getting Of the oil to the market The
distance across country to the Atlantic
seaboard in a straight line is considerably
more than 1000 miles, and this will ne
ccssitate the pumping Of the oil over the
high plateau of Brazil. If pipe line
should be run from the lower end IT the
field down to Asuncion in Paraguay, and
thence through the Parana valley to
Buenos Aires, the distance would be al
most twice as great, but the slope would
be gradual and uninterrupted all the way
to the sea. Such a pipe line would have
the markets of the fast populating coun-
try of Argentina on the way, and the oil
would command a ready market there
for both fuel and lighting,
No Valuable Coal.
As to coal, so far more OF value has
been discovered in this part of the world.
There is said to be some in the northern
part of the Peruvian Andes and on the
coast of southern Chile there are great
beds that run far out under the Pacific
ocean. The latter mines have been
worked for generations, and they still
supply a large part Of the fuel OF the
west coast There is no coal in Brazil
sufficiently good to make steam or smelt
iron, and so far Argentina, Uruguay and
Paraguay have shown no fuel of value.
Mr. Forbes, an eminent English geolo-
glst, who has done some work in eastern
Bolivia, says that an enormous carboni7
ferrous deposit probably exists at the
cal stern foot OF the Andes and that geo.
logic conditions lead TO that belief. No
or borings have set been made; !
but one evidence is the petroleum springs
thirty miles from Santa Cruz.
AS to the gold of eastern Bolivia, the |