The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-16

cisco with the cattle regions of Matte Crosse within a short distance of the Bolivian boundary.
 The pastures of Matto Crosse will support millions of stock. and they are great city of southern Brazil, as from New York to Cleveland. The Brazil Land and Cattle company has formed an alliance with one of the large pack ing companies of the United States, and they are now erecting packing houses at Sac Paulo The cattle of Matto Crosse will be sent there by railroad and will be killed dressed and frozen preparatory to their export to the Uni ted States and Europe. The short ex : tension of this projected road would reach the cattle fields of eastern Be- liyia and bring them much nearer the seaboard than our cattle fields west of the Mississippi, from where we have shipped vast quantities of meat to Eu- rope.
 Another probability of the near fu- ture is that railroads will be built from the Argentine boundary through east
 
 railway center at Santa Cruz The lat ter town lies in the heart of the pe- troleum territory and it will eventu- ally be great railroad center
 line has been surveyed from there to the Marmore river. which runs into the Madeira and on to the Amazon, and Tn the far future this may be extended through the Amazon valley to Iquitos Another road has been surveyed from the city or Cochabamba, high up in the mountains southeast of La Paz, to con meet with the Santa Cruz extension Where 1t joints the Marmore. All of these lines, with the exception of the southern connection with the Argen- tine system, are in the future How ever the Bolivian government has de- cioed that the Andean regions and the eastern plains must be united and it is planning railroads to that end The argentine government is anxious to build it's railroads into its undeyeloped territories known as the Chaco. ana faraguay has been invited to extend the railway from Asuncion into east Cruz.
 At the present time eastern Bolivia IS practically inaccessible and it can not be opened up to civilization until railroads are built. There is no way to get into the country excepting on foot or on mule back. and no way to get the crops out When the railroad is completed to Corumbia the cattle can be driven there and shipped to the markets of eastern Brazil but just now 1t is not possible to send them down to Buepos Aires on account of the heavy freight rates of the steam CTS on the Paraguay and Parana rivers.
 So far all of the Bolivian railway irae h I-. teau and It's connections with the Pa cific coast The most of the cities are still Inaccessible except upon mules. and there are towns of 0.000 and 3O- VV0 and more than can be reached only by mules Away from the railroads there are practically no hotels fit for a white man to live in. The country inns are more like stables than any thing else, and in the out of the way places it is almost impossible to buy food of the Indians or to obtain quar- ters in their huts for the night The beds of the inns are platforms made Of stone or sun dried brick and the bedding is often lousy and dirty One should carry camp bed, and he should be supplied with rugs, heavy boots and rubber coat or poncho. He should also carry along some provisions
 During my stay here I have gone over the exhibit that Bolivia has pre- pared for the San Francisco exposition. A large part of this comes from east ern Bolivia. It includes, with other things, samples of fine timber found there. About fifth of that whole country is covered with trees The area Is as large as the state of Missouri and the timber is about the finest in South America. Some of it is so hard 1t Will turn the edge of an ax. and a great deal of it takes beautiful pol ish. The cabinet woods include ebony, walnut, mahogany cedar and lignum- vitae. Some of the trees are of great girth and height, and the wood is so heavy that it will not float It will re- quire railroads or steamers to bring it to the markets. There are also many rubber trees-trees that bear the silk cotton and those producing vegetable