The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-03
URUGUAY IN 1915
A Little American Republic That Has On It's
Seven League Boots. .
Seven League Boots.

A Land Where the Average Farm is
q Ncrcs and Where There Are
20 Cows and go Sheep for E-ach
FamiIy-A Meat Country Which
May Supply Our Markcts-NcW
AGRICULTURAL Movements Backed by
Oar Government and Assisted by
North American ExpOrts-Ihe
New Fish Department-An Era OF
Tree Planting With Prizes OF $780,
600 Each-Littlc Chance for Amer
lean FarmerrS-The Port OF Mon
teyidcO and American Trade-A
Line OF United States Steamers
Needed.
Copyright, 1915, by Frank G. Car
penter.)
MONTEVlDEO,. Uruguay.
came from Argentina to Uruguay
In a night. The two countries are
separated by the Rio de la Plata and
the Rio Uruguay, and they both form
q part Of the great Parana basin,
which is destined to be one Of the
mightiest food lands on Gods fat
earth. Argentina is far the larger and
richer. 1t has more tina fifteen times
as ruch territory, more thar eight
time } as many people, n its capital
city, Buenos Aires, is four times he
size of Montevideo, where 1 am writ
ing. Buenos Aires has, at least, l.
600, 900. It's people claim 1,8OO,O 600
and they say that it will have 3,OOO,-
900 by 1925. Montevideo claims AGO.
900, and it's claim is not far from cor
rect. Buenos Aires lies on one bank
of the Rio de la Plata. Montevideo Is
on the opposite bank, but one is near
eA1 ha,I ~ tho rix-nr a nd tho other on
the edge of the sea, so that the two
cities are about 120 miles apart. 1t
takes nearly eight hours to go from
one to III other, and there are three
ines Of steamers that ply nightly be-
tween them. These steamers are
somewhat like those between New
York and Boston. You go to bed al
night in Buenos Aires and wake VI
in Montevideo The fare is IS, and
you have included a good nights rest
and some coffee and bread upon ris-
ing.
The traffic is great. for the two cite.
represent not only their own popula
ton, but the countries of which the.
are the commercial, financial, politi
cal and social centers. You might sa.
thai Buenos Aires is the Argentin,
and that MontevideO is Uruguay, a
far as these things are concerned
Buenos Aires contains about one-fiftl
or the population of Argentina, ant
MOntevideo has almost o%ne-third o
Uruguay living within its bounds. II
addition to this. the citizens of Beu
nos Aires and Montevideo PRACTICAL,
own the two countries, so that tn
story of each is not that Of the cit,
alone, but of the great industrial EN-
pire which lies behind it.
have already Wriffop of ArOoptjn.
That country is about one-third tn
size of the United States, but it has
great strip of mountains at the bac
and some deserts in the far south
Uruguay is not much bigger tina
Missouri and Connecticut combined
but it is rich all the way through. T
use q expression, it is
yard wide and all wool, or, in the lar
guage of the butcher, it is a gree
chunk Of tenderloin steak with tn
fat trimmed off round the edge
These comparisons are apropos. Tt
country produces 100, 900, 900 pound
of wool every year and it has so man
beef cattle that it is now shippir
meat to our American markets.
Indeed Uruguay is the smallest of a
the South American republics. 1t
only about one-fortieth the size
Brazil, which country, by the wa
is bigger han the whole of the Unite
States proper. 1t is only one-four1
n size of Chile, one-seventh the ST
of Columbia, o~ne-eighth as big
Venezuela and about one-ninth Il
size of Peru. Ecuador comes next
1T, but it could make Uruguay al
have enough a n to spare to equal
state as big as Illinois. This gives y,
some idea Of the area of the count1
Now see where it lies! Uruguay
In the heart of the great bread Ian
OF the southern part of this c~ontine,
1t is a pocket of rich soil at the low
end of the Parana basin. Upon t
north are the wheat and cattle lar
Of Brazil, and on the west is the 4
gentine Mesopotamia, that great st
Of fairness that lies between the u,
quay and Parana rivers. On the e;
and south is the ocean,. with the ri
province of Buenos aires on the