The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-08

y Country ';nois With Gil
mate Like, dat Raises
Sugar Cane al. " eco. and Its
Oranges Grow 70. Vast Unde-
velopcd Pastures. crnmcHt
Lands and the E, How
Some Americans Are En-. ~.tins the |
Cattle Territory They Have
Bought 100000 Acres and Have
$4,000 Cattle Turned Out to Craze
Copyright, 1915. by Frank c. Car
penter)
Asunction, Paraguay.
[ am in the heart of another meat
land Of infinite possibilities. | an
in Paraguay, a country that lies mid,
way between Manaos, the metropolis
of the central Amazon river, and
BuenOs Aires, the great city at the
mouth OF the Rio de la Plata. Of all
| the South American republics, Para
quay and Bolivia only have no sea
coast. Bolivia is shut off from the
Pacific by one OF the greatest deserts
| on earth. It is a land Of snow
| peaked mountains and lofty plateauS
| Paraguay is only a few hundred feet
| above the sea. 1t is a country of
perennial green It lies in the arms
of amorOus rivers that are always
| ready to carry her products out to
the ocean. 1t has soil Of astounding
fertility, pasture lands as good as
those Of the pampas lands Of Ar
| gentina, and it promises to be one
Of the bread lands and wheat lands
Of the future.
In coming here from the Atlantic
ocean, | have travelled on steamers
1900 miles, and the last 800 was or
the Paraguay river. could go or
the same river thousand miles fur
ther north into the heart of Brazil
and there is a good cattle country
along both banks of the river all the
way.
Just opposite where I write these
notes the Pilcomayo flows into the
Paraguay, and several hundred miles
l off in the opposite direction is the
, Alto Parana, which enters the Para
$ ma proper at the Paraguay's mouth
' Each Of these streams is enormous
Y l have written you Of the Paran;
, tproper. It Is double the size Of tn
E Ganges, three times that Of the st
a Lawrence, four times that of the Dan
\ ube and five times that Of the Nile
2 The Alto-Parana is one Of it
9 branches and it extends 500 mile
= from where it joins the Parana t
its source in the Goyaz mountain
@ Of Brazil.
The Pilcomayo is about 1900 mile
- long It rises in the Andes not IA
II from the source OF the Madeira, tha
d mighty branch Of the Amazon, an
8 winds it's way through an unknow
9 wilderness until it empties into tn
+ Paraguay opposite where l am nov
4. The Pilcomayo forms the souther
e boundary Of the Chaco, the wild ives
J. Of the Paraguay republic, or rathe
al it divides the Argentine Chaco an
IS the Paraguayan Chaco in half 1t
is a winding stream running throug
e swamps great forests and might.
a pastures on its way from BolivI
,r down to Paraguay. The Paragua
X river proper is still greater stream
g 1t is navigable from here almost
in thousand miles northward, and it
ut SO long that if it were stretched upo
= the United States, with it's winding
g. uncoiled. it would reach from Ro
- ton to Denver and connect the sa
~ waters of the Atlantic with those
s. the South Platte, river, that lit
Is stream that washes the feet Of II
es capital Of Colorado.
In l was day and a night in conir
es from the Parana proper to the mou'
IN of the Pilcomayo. The Parague
ry river is about as wide as. the Missi
Sc sippi above st. Louis, and its waite
I'd are of about the same color a
those of our great river, before Il
muddy Missouri flows IN. The strea
is winding and its banks ar a Wi
IL derness For the most part they a
ke covered with jungle. You ride I
ne miles without seeing a house, a
pc the only signs of life are the biT
as that fly here and there along Il
a shores and the great black alligato
ny that bask upon the banks. In Il
he Argentine Chaco on the western si
ne Of the river there is but little ell
ee than virgin forest. BuShy tres hal
ry out over the water and. it is sal
Won cannot travel miles back fro
the banks without finding tapirs, pc