The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

little gulf not far from the peninsula Valdez. The population of the terri tory is made up chiefly of Boers and Welsh. Rawson has weekly news paper published in Welsh, and the colo nists Speak Welsh, English and Spanish The town has q football club and cricket and tennis clubs.
 This part of Chubut is one of big sheep farms. There is one sheep ranch that has about 15,000 head feeding on some thing like 50,0oc acres another that has 35o0 Rambouillet sheep on 25000 acres, and another which has 7000 sheep on a similar area. Altogether there are more than 19o, GOO sheep in the region surrounding the Valdez peninsula.
 Almost all southern Patagonia Is more or less fitted for sheep raising; it is said one can start on the mainland north of the Strait of Magellan and travel to Buenos Aires, stopping over every night at the house of a farmer There are sheep stations wherever there is water. and the sheep feed on the bushes and scanty grass Of the pampas
 The province of Santa Cruz, just below Chubut, produces about 50.Oe0, coo pounds of wool per annum, and there are freezing establishments a the port of Galiegos, where more than 100000 sheep are slaugh- tered every year. Gallegos is in the south ern part of Santa Cruz, not far from the Strait of Magellan.
 Santa Cruz is one of the largest terri- tories of Argentina. It is bigger than our state of Colorado, being about 300 or 400 miles long and almost that wide. Its eastern boundary is the Atlantic and the coast is bleak and bare. The land rises from the ocean and goes back to the An des in series of terraces, which are on the average several hundred feet high. The southern part of the territory has many fenced ranches and its sheep are numbered by millions. In the region of the Camerons alone there are about 250- o0e, and there are many large proprietors who each own hundreds of cattle and thousands of sheep. There are also large sheep farms along the Rio Gallesos, one of which belonging to a Captain EDer- lard, has 100000 acres and 40,000 sheep, and another belonging to Hamilton and Landers, about 4eo,o00 acres and 6O0o0 sheep. Both of these big tracts are fenced In addition. there are many other men who have flocks of from 10000 to 5000 each.
 The sheep of that region are generally Of the Falkland and Romney Marsh breeds, crossed with Merinos. They are big, weighing on the average from 140 to 220 pounds. They are noted for their wool. which is short and thick, protecting the animals against the cold winters. Some of the fleeces weigh as much as eight and 10 pounds.
 Santa Cruz has three ports of impor- tance. One is Desado, at the mouth of the Desado river; another, Santa Cruz, at the mouth of the Chico river, and the third, Gallegos, at the mouth of the Gallegos river Santa Cruz has only 100 houses or so running around a little harbor, backed by hills. The houses are built of wood and galvanized iron and some of them have been imported knoekdown from Europe. The place is the site of fish hatchery modelled after those of the United States, the fish being sent from there to other parts of the republic.
 Gallegos is the capital of Santa Cruz territory. It was named after the Eilot on one of Magellan's ships, which called there at the time the straits were discovered. about A. D. 1920. The town has a population of 1900. It is the chief port of the territory.
 The island of Tierra del Fuego was was once supposed to be barren and worthless, but it now has some of the great sheep farms of the world. The western part of 1t belongs to Chile, and the eastern part to the Argentine re- public. If you will draw line directly south from Cape Virgens, at the east ern end of the strait of Magellan, it will go along the boundary between the two countries. The Argentine sec ton Is known as the territory of Tier Ia del Fuego It is just about the size Of. Massachusetts it's area being $500 square miles, and it's shape is a tri- angle. bounded on the north and south by the Atlantic ocean and on the west by Chile.
 There are regular steamers from Bahia Blanca to the strait of Magellan, and once a month there is vessel to Tierra del Fuego. The ship skirts the eastern side of the island and goes about its southern boundary through Beagle channel to Ushiaia, the capital of the southern coast. The voyage lasts about 45 days and the fare is just about $100. The ships call at all of the ports along the coast of Pata- sonia, and terminate the voyage ct Ushlaia.
 Ushiaia is the southernmost town of the world It is 1870 miles south O. Buenos Aires, 100 miles or so south of the straits of Magellan, and more than 1000 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope The town is T convict settle ment and it has a large prison for