Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-27
SOUTH AMERICA IS
 DISkRRANCED BY THE
 EUROPEAN CONFLICT
Peculiar and Serious Condi- tions Result in Argentina from the War. Germans Have Corne-ed the Wool.

fiuenceS Of the war in Europe are be- ing felt acutely in South America. The routine of life as fixed by the seasons and their phenomena, is thrown out of gear. Immigration returns for the first time in many years show bal ance of emigration. This is attributed to the exodus of Italian reservists, who responded to the colors with en- thusiasm and spontaniety. In normal times the Italian aric Spanish immi- grants flock in about equal numbers to the harvest fields of Argentina. The efflux has gone on in the same propor. tion, for it is peculiar fact, one which no one seeks to explain, that the Span iards, as if acted upon by some sympa- thetic influence are leaving by every passenger steamer It cannot be said that they are going In great numbers, for the simple reason that all those who are not radicated in the Republic already have drifted away.
 This shifting of labor is not strange; but, occurring at a period when hands are most needed and wages highest, it causes a certain feeling of uneasi- ness. One good result is that the Ma tional and provincial authorities have been induced to think more seriously of their natural sources of human en- ergy and how to organic them. The country is so large that with ample railroad facilities the unemployed hands in the North, for example, could be shifted to the south where at a given period of the year, extreme diff ference of climatic conditions prevail. This organization so far has not made itself apparent by results.
 At the present moment there is a considerable number of unemployed in the Pampa Territory near what may be called the geographical center of the Republic. Having drifted there these elements are causing consider able trouble by thelr truculent and menacing attitude. AS the territories are, of course, under National admin istration fifty men or the Metropolitan police armed with rifles and well sup piled with ammunition have been sent town to reinforce the local police and baintain order. The department of labor declares that had these elements been amenable to cUslirol they would not have drifted, at the precise mo- ment when they We're wanted else where, to point at which they were not required. It is, however, difficult to organize elements so illiterate that they cannot read.
 Another serious effect of the war is that freighting vesseis are few and rates exceedingly high The amount or Argentine produce held up for lack of transport is very large. An idea of the magnitude can be gathered from the following facts which, relating to a few zones, may be reDarded as com mon to all. The great Central Argen- tine railroad system ramifying through the Central northern and northern pro- vinces report that over 100000 tons of wheat and linseed of the last harvest are still waiting to pe moved.
 In Rosario, the depot of the north, there is at least the same uantity of corn of the same harvest stored and waiting for export, in addition there are 100000 tons stored in outlaying stations ready to be forwarded to the suming markets. There is, therefore, a plethora of grain already, and the stock is being rapidly increased as operations upon the new harvest pro- ceed. At the time of writing about 40 per cent of the seasons wheat and linseed had been collected. The qual- ity and yield being very satisfactory. The corn plantations. <avored by ade- quate precipitation and warmth, look very promising too.
 The great Southern railroad system which ramifes through the arabic and pasture lands of the South and West, report identical conditions. There is decided scarcity of labor, where la bor is wanted, there are the same plethora of grain in the granaries and abundance in the fields now being har- vested Doubtless the Western Raii- road, which serves as a connecting line between the two great systems already named, have the same general phenomena to deal with. It all means congestion, loss and low prices for the farmers who are always inneed of ready money. In the meantime the freighters which should be carrying the harvests of South America to the ports of Europe ana feeding the in dustries of the Old Comment, are act ing as transports, carrying troops and stores to the war.
 Locally it is difficult to measure the yossible loss direct and collateral, caused by this dislocation of conner cial currents when ine war is over. The consequences of the war will per sist It will be long time before the ports of this Republic are again full of shipping from the seven seas. as they were a few years ago, to relieve the pressure, the port Of Buenos Aires ex- tension works were decided upon and pushed forward. That great undertak- inb, by the way, is now paralyzed. nothing in the nature of an amicable arrangement or compromise having