El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-05

cannot but increase greatly in value
within the near future. Indeed, L doubt
if there Is anywhere else on the globe
so large a block of good, easily accessible,
noccupied country.
Paraguay proper is considered the gar
den Of all South America. Much OF it
is high and dry, and 1t viii raise coffee,
tobacco, sugar cane and corn. Thousands
of acres are now in mandiOca, a tuber
somewhat like the potato, and there are
vast tracts OF open country, some Of
which are covered with cattle.
Natural Home Of the Orange.
The land seems to be the natural home
of the orange. The first trees were
brought here by the Jesuits not long
after Columbus discovered America, and
the birds have carried the seeds so that
YOU now find oranges growing wild IN
the woods. The villages are built IN
orange groves, and there is so much fruit
that it often rots on the ground.
There are great orange orchards, and
during the season a fleet OF fruit steam
ers goes in a long caravan down to the
Argentine. At that time the banks of
the Paraguay river have mountains OF
oranges piled near the Wharves Of the
towns, and you see long lines Of Para
guayan girls carrying the golden fruit IN
baskets on their heads to the steamers.
The oranges are brought in on carts,
containing 5000 each, from the orchards.
The oranges arc handled like so many
potatoes. The driver backs his cart
against one of the piles on the banks
and dumps out the fruit Just as our
wOrkmen dump dirt IN repairing the
roads. In the ordinary season oranges
are really worth little more than the dirt
a aarAFnrI Mill call for
SIS, and you can buy all you can eat for
2 or 8 cents.
So far there has been no breeding up
of the fruit trees. There are but few
navel oranges. and much of the fruit is
practically wild. Nevertheless, II Is de-
licious. and the country might be made
a great orange grove for the dense pOpu-
lation that Is bound TO some day pOpu-
late the southern part of this continent.
Raises Sugar Cane and Tobacco.
Paraguay is raising good sugar cane
and it has been exporting to Hamburg
and Bremen about 1,30O,000,O00 pounds
Of tobacco a year. The soil viii grow
all sorts OF vegetables and fruit, and 1t
is believed that cotton and bananas viii
some day be raised for export.
Paraguay is a natural stock country.
The grass, IS green all the year round.
Much Of the country Is one mighty park
Of green plains spotted with groves. /
There is water everywhere, and the cat
tie need but little care, except at the /
times of the annual roundups. So far
there has been no great upbreeding OF |
stock, and but few impOrtations Of Dur ]
hams, Herefords and Shorthorns, as IN |
he Argentine and Uruguay.
Cattle Like Old Texas Kind.
The cattle are now more ike Texas /
,attle of the past. They are long-horned, |
-angy animals, which Will have to be |
Teatly improved before they will do /
or chilled beef. Such as are now killed /
or their meat are Tor the salederos, the i
lesh being turned into beef extract or /
salted and dried for export. As YOU ride 1
through Paraguay you see strips and /
sheets of such meat hanging upon poles I
md swaying to and fro in the breeze,
md the people seem to like II better /
han the freshly killed beef. Such meat
5 eaten IN the West Indies islands, IN
Irazil, Argentina, and, in fact, in nearly |
Il of the South American countries. 1t |
5 used for stews, being cooked with /
ice, potatoes and mandiOca.
Has Great Future.
There Is no doubt. however. but that |
'aTaguay has a great future as a meat
roducer- The prices Of cattle are rising,
nd, with d little care, the pasturage |
ere tdu bc ulGut d5 Euuu d LuAL OF ]
he Argentine. ] am told that some |
rainloads of cattle have already been /
lipped over the new railway to Buenos
Tres, and that if the stock can be bred ]
p, there Is no reason why millions of I
cad should not there find a profitable (
larket. The good cattle lands are to be
,und not only in Paraguay proper, but
$50 in various places throughout the |
haco, and there are now companies and |
indicates who are buying the grass
md and preparing to stock them. II
TEX" Richards Company.
Indeed. it Is in such companies that !
merican capital Is now becoming large
r interested. I have already referred | .
, G. /. Richard. OF TEX Rickard.7 as
: is popularity known among the sport
z circles of our country. The bust
ass with which he Is connected Is known / 7
the New York and Paraguay COM
Inv, chartered in Delaware. 1t has a ]
pital OF s1.5OO,OOO gold. and 1t owns. J
DOut 100000 acres Of land In western !