El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-27

out the country, so that the Argentine
viii soon have a system OF elevators
like those Of Canada and the United
States
Carried From Farm TO Elevator.
As il is now, nearly all Of the grain
comes TO the market in bags Of $50
pounds each. II is there carried in
open cars covered in canvas and is
stacked in bags at the stations. There
are no arrangements on the farms for
storing the wheat, and the most Of
the grain is carted from the rhresher
to the railroad in enormous carts,
which haul two or three tons at a load.
These carts have wheels eight feet in
diameter and tires four inches wide.
and il requires sixteen horses, or bull
locks, TO haul one of them
The chief marketing season is from
January TO Nay, when the roads are
often rivers Of mud. Some of the wheat
is hauled as far as sixty miles to the
10 cents per busheL J. cots Z or cents
10 haul bushel twenty miles, and in
one place, where the distance is thirty
three miles, the teamsters take two
days, camping out at night on the
"trip.
In some cases carts dragged oy
teams Of Uwenty-fOur of more bullOcks
are used such carts viii carry five or
six tons. and the load is so high that
the last bags are carried up on lad
ders.
Rich Valley Of the Parana.
me most Of the wheat Of South America
IS raised in the valley OF the Parana and
the earth washings Of the Andes which
have built up the vast plains Of Argentina
known as the pampas. These plains cover
hundreds Of millions OF acres and they have
wheat in one year
And still it is safe to say that not one
twentieth OF the grain area has been devel-
open entered Argentina by the railway
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al Mendoza, and from there Travelled 10 the
Atlautic ocean. a distance almost as great
as from New York TO Chicago The ground
Is nat all the way and much Of the soil
Is as rich as any OF the Mississippi valley
Wild Lands Covered With Grass.
Ihere are no stones, and the wild lands
are covered with grass. I rode through
vast estauclas supporting tens Of thousands
Of cattle and hundreds Of thousands OF
sheep. and now know that I could 20 in
either direction north or south. for hun
dreds Of miles and find the same kind Of
cultivated lands
Buenos Aires and travel for - hours 10
the northwest before you reach Tucuman-
you VIII see some wheat fields and corn
fields but the most Of the land is given
are In a country like our southern states.
From there you can 90 further north for
hundreds Of miles through fields Of sugar
cane tobacco. cotton and corn.
You can start at Buenos Aires. and 90
south. riding through pastures and corn
1lelus ana wheat fields for a whole day. or
you can 90 to the north, and. crossing the
RIO de Ia Plata some into the Argentine
Aesopotaria, Entire Rios that lies between
the Uruguay and Paraguay rivers. The
whole country Will produce wheat and in
tensively cultivated it could feed d large
part OF the globe.
Uruguay Also Great Wheat Country
crossing into Uruguay you find there
another wheat country. and going on into
southern Brazil see lands now farmed by
the Germans. which are among the grain
posi- bilities OF the future South America
already produces In the neighborhood OF
-ot,oOo,0oo bushels Of wheat per annun-
and IL may eventually yield more than 10
times as much, or an amount equal to two
thirds OF the present wheat crop OF the
world of this more than nine-teuths
comes from Argentina. a country which
already leads in its exports Of corn. and