The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-25

volume of water estimated at 13,OO0,oOo cubic feet per second, and force of more than 100000 horse power. Still farther upstream are the Uberaponga Falls.
 All of these great falls will eventually be harnessed by electricity, and the time win come when. some of the largest of our electrical industries will be found near these and other cataracts of the South American continent. Some of the chief cities here are already lighted and moved by electric force. This Is so of San Paulo, the metropolis of southern Brazil. It is so largely of Rio de Janeiro and also of Santiago de Chile Brazil Is one of the richest countries of the world in its unde- ve.oped water powers, and there are some streams flowing down from the Andes that have enormous possibilities in the way of power development.
 During my travels the Parara river 1 have spent sometime with Dr. Iabenicht. He is a medical missionary belonging to the SeventhDay Adven- lists, who have a sanitorium at Dia- mante, about 250 miles north of Buenos Aires. At the sanitorium they provide the methods of treatment used at Bat tie Creek, and I believe preach the vir- tue of taking care of the body as well as the soul. The sanitorium has now about 50 patients. It is patronized by people from all parts of the Parana  and an industrial farm. There are also blacksmith shops. carpenter shops and other manual schools for training. The colony owns considerable land, which it is farming with American machinery. It has a dairy, and owns about the only herd of Jersey cattle in this part of tte republic. The mission has a large pub fishing house in Buenos Aires, and it is establishing sanitoriums in various Of ri bae pltfaa in Chile, Peru. Bolivia and Ecuador and included in it's work is a school near Titicaca, where they are trying to Chris tianize the Quichua and Ayamara h. dians. They have a sanitorium there with North American nurses.
 Dr. Habenicht has been connected with this mission for many years lie has travelled all over the province of Entre Rios, of the Argentine Mesopo tamia, and is well posted on the farm ing conditions I asked him to the value of lands. Said he:
 This country is not bad for an American colonist It is in it's begin ming, and land will steadily increase. I think 1t is safe to say farm lands bought today will be worth double thclr present prices within a short time. I bought farm seven years ago. and 1t is now worth three times what I paid for 1t. Good lands can be gotten for s10 an acre or less. and the goverYent has coloniza ton departments where per sons can take the land and pay for it in regular yearly installments without intreest. The lands arc usually sold in 250-acre lots.
 How about the colonies?" I asked
 There are a number of them. They are mostly composed of Europeans Some of the first settlers were Rus sians and Italians who received their lands at the nominal cost of a dollar an acre. The Russians have used the old style farming common on the great black plain. Many of them hold their lands in common, dwelling in villages and going out to work on their farms. There are Russian villages which have 5000 or 4000 people.
 "The Italians hold their lands in sev- crafty, and they are growing rich