El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-09

here with their families are the fol-
! lowing;
I William Pyles from Georgia. VII
I liam Reese from Mississippi, AlOnzo
/ Reese from Mississippi William Pres
Z tidge from Alabama, Wilbur AicKnight
Z from Texas. Ezekiel Pyles from Geor-
/ gia, John Rowe from Mississippi. Mc-
! Alpin from Alabama, Charles G. Fin
! ley from Mississippi John Carlton
/ from Mississippi, Charles n. Hall from
] Virginia and others.
] Mr.. Han now lives in Americana al
{ though he has a number Of large
farms IN the country nearby. He has
/ sugar plantations and cattle ranches
and is, I judge, a man Of considerable
! wealth. 1 called upon him at his
[ home, and met some OF his children.
who are now grown up The young
women have been educated In the
United States, and the family is a de-
lightful little slice Of America trans
planted TO the heart OF Brazil Mr.
I Hall did not come with the party from
New Orleans, but on SSter steamer.
I which carried several families from
Alabama and elsewhere.
Have Early Struggle.
The first settlement near Santos was
at the town Of Iguape, and Mr.. Hall
said the colony contained a preacher
by the name OF Ballard Dunn, who re-
turned TO America and brought out
colony became disguised Ballard Dunn
left them and went back to the United
States After that the exodus oc-
CURED, and the people climbed to the
highlands, many of them on foot
None OF the colony had very much
money, but lands were cheap, and
those who held on have found that
their investments have Quaurupled and
quintupled in value, alhtuogh 1 doubt
whether the land has. on the whole
increased more than similar lands IN
those parts OF the United States from
where they came.
Is n Land OF Beaaty.
And still there are not many parts
of the world more beautiful, more
fertile and more Salubrious than these
highlands of Sac PaulO. The land Is
about 5000 feet above the sea II is
about twice as far south Of the equa-
tor as Panama IS north Of II, and the
climate is something like that OF
southern Florida or northern Cuba
The scenery Is beautiful The country
is rolling and it reminds me Of the
Shenandoah valley Of Virginia o. the
famous blue glass lands Of kentucky. :
There are great meadows with trees
scattered here and there through them, /
and You have a succession OF views AT /
every spin Of your motor car.
The soil is rich and il will raise /
corn. cotton. sugar cane and rice ]
Some Of the cotton lands now under !
cultivation are producing a bale and a {
half to the acre. and sugar cane grows /
luXuriantly. There Is great oeaA I
Of rice raised and there are four rice !
mills near Villa Americana.
The Farm Of One COloniSt.
In connection with the agricultural 3
conditions Of this part Of Brazil. 7 can !
not do better than describe my visit to 7
the farm Of one Of the Oldest Of the I
American settlers refer TO that OF Z
Ezekiel Pyles Of Georgia He came .
here at the age OF %. and he has IN
der cultivation and in pasture some .
thing like a thousand acres of land
He has 400 acres which are now in I
crops of one kind or other. and his
fields are as clean as any garden IN
Georgia. His home is far mole COM
Portable than the average farm house
Of Georgia, and its luxury approx
mates that Of some Of the richest
homes Of the south Mr.. Pyles has
thirty men working on his farm They
all have homes there and most OF them
have families
Native Farming Poorly Done.
I asked Ezekiel Pyles as to the char
acter Of farming in the country about
he said il is poorly done Before the
came the people used moth
ing but hoes to cultivate the fields.
The new settlers brought in American
plows and they are now used every
where The people have learned our
methods OF farming from them ana
many Of them are better off from the
fact of the American colony
Before our people came many OF the
fields were covered with bunch grass
so tough that II could not be dug out y
with hoe. The Americans bought
this land at low prices and used their
plOws to turn the grass under. The
grass made a good fertilizer and the
land trebled in price.
No Place For Poor Men.
This is no place for Americans
without money. The farm hands get (
wages Of about IS cents a day. with /
free house rent The tenant house is I
2 shack about fifteen feet square and /
from eight to ten feet in height The !
whoe family sleeps on the floor. The
stove is usually of brick with a sheet (
Df iron on top. The common food OF
the people is rice. beans dried beer
and bacon The farm hands work from /
daylight to dark They have a hair
hour off for breakfast and 40 minutes
Tor dinner.
The working day is "A hours in the
summer and ten or eleven in the win
er- The climate is such that the work
goes on all the year round. The grass
s always green and several crops can : :
be raised on the same ground in one
year The ordinary working man
leeds but little clothing. his usual at
ire consisting Of a shirt, hat and pair
y trousers The hat is Of straw and !
[ costs about cents, the shirt and I
rousers can be bought for s. SO that
or SZ-O6 man can get a fun outfit
Americans Well Satisfied.
] find that a mimi mar o= fhe Ar,arf ,