Evening star., 1915-03-28
Copyright, 1915 l.y Frank g. Carpenter9

ROSARIO. Argentina
E1HE farmers of Argentina will
greatly increase the size of
their wheat farms this year.
S The planting season is in May.
tune and July. and within few weeks
the plows will be starting all over the
psrana basin The big prices for
wheat brought about by the war are
bound to continue. and they Will add
tens OF millions of dollars to the
wealth of the country. the crop OF
last year, now being exported, is pay
ING better than ever before: and the
.orp which they are harvesting Will 60
10 Europe by the millions OF bushels
This port of Rosario is in 1he heart
# the bread lands. 1t lies on the
fs.rana river about 200 miles from
t:uenos Aires and about as nlr iniahd
nom the Atlan1b: ocean as t1ttsbhrSh.
ocean steamers sail for zoe miles up
III. Rio de Ia Plata into the mouth OF
ne Parana and thence wind about Tor SGT
.,,lcs 10 EosarS. The channel is so
deep that srttsr ships % feach
r,,eario at any uine Of rho year. ana
tI,ev come herer from all parts "'
rt,ropc and frornlthe United states for
their cargoes Of srain
4
Since I was here now fifteen Years
ago. great elevators have sprung UP
aIons- the banks N the river. ana the
,.i,v now has facilities for loadirS
something like 2od 900 bushels day
There Is one elevator that takes in
$40 tons of grain an hour. ana aho.her
.ha+ NIls the hold nf a 4,O0O-ton vessel
in less than five hours. The o1ssest
elevator is seven lstories high, with
-txty siloe on either side The new
,ort borders the banks Of The Parana
liver for two mihns and the new
vbarves are about a. mile long Under
ri,e wharves are warehouses which VIII
r.ld 10. 900 bushels Of wheat and
n the high banks af the river. thirty
,ett and more above, the water there
~ other warehouses from which
cnutes carry the grain right down INTO
~. holds of the steamers.
The city of Rosario stands on bluff
1T,ich is so steep that rhe grain can
i,e loaded by gravity. The old way was
ny !: long chute made in sections run
,ti,,e from the bluff tO the steamers.
The wheat is brought here in bags.
and the cars carry IT TO the cage OF
the hlun There the bags are taken by
the italian laborers and thrown into
me chutes AS soon as the bags touch
me chute they begin TO descend. and
they fairly gallon down the inclined
trough inro the steamer. They go at
thc rate of forty or fifty minute.
ard make one think of ga Hoping white
mice. recalling the army of ten thou
sand rats 5hat attacked and ate up
Archbishop .Hatto in his island on the
Rhine.
Ar the present time Che chutes are
giving way 10 long pipes extending
out from the elevators. and the wheat
Is delivered n bulk A single elevator
will have tw enty or more such pipes.
and half dozen ships can be loaded
II once The elevators re steadily in
e-.asing in number aud size Many
hare been built at Buenos Aires. Those
NJ the Cent raj Argentine railway
ther,e have a capacity of eo0.00tItons.
and they can tscharges 10000 tons per
,lay There .e great elevators at
Bahia Blanca which is the coast
a bout ten hours south of Buenos
Aires and the government is now
forcing the rail eoads to build ware
houses for grain throughout the coun
try, so that the Argentine will soon
have a system of elevators like those
Of Canada and thes United States.
As il is nov, nea Tly all of the grain
comes to the mar ket in bags of 155
pounds each 1t b there carried i'll
open cars covered with canvas and is