The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

wheat and grain. he fields being I'D
Nv he plentiful rainfall
The latter region has also enormous
areas cf forest. II viii surprise yen
10 know that on@-fourth OF all Chile
Is wooded and hat just row they ara
cutting down the woods and burning
them. AS We footi<hty DID In the past.
To make farms Aliogethrs the wood
Cd area Of Chile i IS large a the
combined states Of ohto and indiana
1t is more than g. Geo >auar. miles
Before / leave this genera de-
scription ! want to tell YOU about the
lands and industries IF tE@ Strait e
Magellan and the archipelago Of Tier
ia del Fueco. They are i part IL the
frontier Of this s~hoeStrinr republic.
and as one looks at them on the map
ne might imagine them 10 he some
what like the country that the late
Capt Scott found about the south
poie- on the contrary, they have .
| climate about 49, mild a. that of Sitka.
| Alaska. which has been mpa 10
that Of Cincinnati or Washington
city. The sheep Of that region feed
out Of doors all the year round and
hundreds Of millions Of pounds II
wool are exported from the strait
each year. During my last visit 10
Chile this sheep industry Was at its
beginning. II has since grown h.
yond all that was prophesied then
and there are new single companies
which own more than 1.ea". 600 of
sheep.
That part of Chile is made up ~
the submerged range Of the Andes
some of which are covered with sla-
ciers. The country has a light fall
of snow in the winter, hut il seldom
lies long, and the sheep hurrow down
4 rhrnloh tho Epauy for the r.<
In striking contrast with that re-
gion is northern Chile. from which l
would have an almost tropical heat
{ have come. That part of the republic
would have almost tropical hea.
We're it not that ii Is tempered by tbs
cold Humboldt current. to such ar
extent that white men can live any
, where near the coast There are
thriving towns. ports at me I'D #
i, each little valley, which has Nater
> from the SHOWS of the Andes AM
- there are cities at the itaCes from
y where the nitrate AMI minerals ar.
: shipped to the United Sta - and Eu-
rope
Northern Chile is mostly Il desert
out it compares favorably H. its re
sources with the most fertile part
@ Of the earth. ] nave already writer
of the nitrates. That region sup
49, pIltS H1OSt OF lne nitrate OIL Sfud uSet
by farmers all over the world. From
that source alone the Chilean gov
has already received hun
dredS of millions of dollars, and | ar
. old that it has so much fertiiize
t left hat it will continue to receiv
a tens of millions more every year II
of three generations to come. The cour
e try also is rich in copper. and 4
the great outlet to the vast treasure
covering new copper mines and FRO
re of the Bolivian Andes. They are di.
lie mines and they have already uneartf
O. ed enormous deposits of both Of the>
pc minerals. Among the best of II
a. copper properties are those Of II
IN G~uSSenheims near A~ntOfagasta NJ
the best OF the iron deposits are tho'
lg belonging to the Bethlehem Ste
es Company, further down the coast ne:
Sc Coquinbo. Each Of these properti
is worth tens of millions. / Shd
ell write of them in the future.
IS FRANK G.. CARPENTER.