The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-27

With the Falls Of the Zambesi. Ii
Is Fifty Feet Higher IMAM
and More Than Twice as c
IT'S Electrical Possibilities-Thc
Il Qucdas or Great Falls OF the
Notwithstanding About the Ar
gcntine Mcsopotamia. How Its
Corn Lands Will Compare With
Those of the Mississippi-AmOng
the Scventh-Day Advcntists.
Copyright, 1915. by Frank G.. Car
penter).
Posadas, Argentina.
I crossed the Alto-Parcna river
from E~ncarnacion TO Posadas by
train. The Alto-Parana is very vide
at this point, and the trough cars
from Asuncion to Buenos Aires are
carried across on a ferry. The banks
Of the river are high, and the cars
are lowered by a wire cable. Our
boat went up the stream for some dis
tance, and made at arc of a circle In
coming to the Argentine boundary.
We crossed in the evening. n city
OF Posadas, with it's hundreds Of cleo"
trio lights, shone plainly out from the
opposite bank, and rays of electricity
reflected in the Parana looked IKE
pillars of gold uphOlding the sOmber
blue shore. Just before leaving the
custom inspectors came on board.
They were polite, but insisted on
opening every piece of our baggage.
Landing at Posadas, we found good
quarters at the hotel. and are now
waiting here before starting on an ex-
ploration rhc -een.Ine MeSopOta
MIA, that great body Of fertile land
between the Uruguay and Paraguay
rivers. The country is an island. On
the extreme north it has the RIO
IguaZu, which empties into the Para
ma river several hundred miles above
Posadas. The Alto-Parana bounds 1t
on the north. the Parana on the west
and south and the Uruguay on the
east. The whole country is made up
of the earth washings of these rivers,
u it will some day be one of the
thickly populated parts of the world.
Posadas is the northern capital OF
this region. II is q town OF ten or
fifteen thousand people, situated on a
bend Of the Parana, below which the
giea river stands out like a lake.
There are islands below the city and
these abound with game, including
puma and jaguars. There are big
fish in countless numbers in the river
itself, and many fishing boats are
moving about. The town is one of the
centers of the mate industry, and Its
mate factories are now making Para.
quay tea for shipment to all parts Of
southern South America. 1t has sew.
eral good stores, two banks and 6
number of clubs The rates at the
hotel are 81 a day, m the food i:
fairly good.
Posadas is the starting point for The
yguazu falls, the Niagara Of Sout
America. The distance from here i
three or -four days. You go s%event,
hours by. steamboat to Puerto Aguirre
and there get horses that take yo'
about twelve miles inland over a goo'
carriage road to the falls. The steam
ship fare is $25, and the horsebacl
trip costs SIS. There is a little hote
at Puerto Aguirre, with a dining roon
and two sleeping rooms, that will &C
commodate about forty persons. On
of the rooms is set aside for the wo
men and the other for the men. TIL
Dad from Aguirre to the falls goe
through a virgin forest, which ]
tropical to an extreme. 1t has bee
cut out of the woods, but is said to b
safe. There is a little inn near tn
stopping places from where a road
way has been constructed along tn
banks Of h river to the top of tn
Argentine falls, and 1t is easy to reac
a point farther up near the opposi'
shore, from where you may have
good view of the Brazilian falls.
The journey from BuenoS Air'
may be made in about sixteen day
and ~ the new railroad, which Is no
being extended across Paraguay, tn
time will be cut down to a little mol
than a week. The cost of the trip
present Is something like 200 Arge,
tine dollars.
The Falls of Iguazu are among IL
wonders of the world. There are no
who say they are greater than II
Falls of Niagara or the mighty Fa
Of Victoria, on the Zambesi, in AfriC
1t is difficult to make a compariso
The falls Of the Zambesi and tho
of the Parana at IguaZu are affect,
by the seasons. They have times
low water, when the volume that fioy
over the rocks is less than that
Niagara, and also times of high wat,
when it is very much greater. 1t
now ten years since l stood on t
narrow rocks in the very center Of t
wide falls of the ZambeSi n saw t
mighty floods on both sides of me 6