The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-07-27

There are several companies with |
headquarters here that run around |
million sheep each, and any amount
of people that have upwards of $4,000
each. Anything we ever read about
this country was as it was Is or 20 |
years ago.
There is some land left still in Ar
gentine, probably 600 miles north of
here and 300 miles from the coast. l
was talking to a fellow who has sheep
up there. 1t takes 60 days to make the
round trip from his place to the ship
ping point with the OK teams. Every
things here is OK team, too; no horses
and no wagons; all two-wheeled carts.
Working is no good here. No
wages at all l will probably put in
the time somehow until spring begins
to open up, then go by steamer up the
coast to some Argentine port 500 or
600 miles north of here, then buy a
pack outfit and proceed west to the
foot Of the Andes to see the layout for
myself
Anyone can take up eight leagues
OF ground and pay the government
$500 in Argentine money Isl Argen-
tine equals AZ cents U. S. per year
rent per league. zone league is $500
hectares. One hectare is approximate
ly two and one-half acres.) This also
has to be fenced and house built on
the land. Leases are for 20 years.
III l don't like the looks of it l will
beat It home, but l want to see it first.
"Scab is terrible here. They dip an
average of seven times a year. 1t
doesn't cure them These big COM
panies lose from % to As per cent
every year, but they are paying big
dividends as none of the land costs
them a cent, having got concessions
from the government free gratis, some
of them for 25 to 80 year periods abso-
utely free-stretches containing thou
sands of square miles.
There is no delivery service in any
of these towns that l have hit. Every
corner has a grocery and dry goods
store, meat market and a bar. Every
thing is carried home by the pur-
chaser.
There are no saloons but there is
bar in every store. Everything is
also higher than a cats back except
wages. Even then it is impossible to
buy what one wants. They can't de-
pend on transportation now and any
kind of an old schooner or steamer
can be sold for ten times what it ori-
ginally cost. The mail service is fierce
here. I got a letter from Topic yes
terday that was sent to Santiago and
forwarded here That is the only bit
of mail of any description I have had
since leaving Panama. l left my for
warding address at Valparaiso, but
have never received a letter from
there They have not even sent my
passport yet.
There are no restaurants here; all
hotels and all on the European plan
There are no rooming houses either
All hotels serve bread butter and cof-
fee in the Notwithstanding else. That
is the only time you get butter. We
have breakfast at II and dinner at 7
p. m. Guess it's all right when you
get used to it. I'm always hungry
when noon comes.
There are many millionaires here
and autos by the thousands. Sheep
raising is the only industry. l may
go over to the Falkland islands with
a shipment of horses. They are about
500 miles east of the east entrance to
the Magellan straits.
"Oh, those islands | went to see
looked like paradise, but / am afraid
of them because they are too wet. /
saw shipwrecks galore around there.
That vicinity is conceded to be the
toughest sea in the world, and l be-
lieve it. l passed Cape Horn twice
and the little tub bobbed like a cork.
About every fifth wave covered it.
Sick! Oh, man, you don't know what
sickness isl
I'VE were on the island u days.
They should have been back after us
in five days but the weather was too
tough and they had to stay in anchor
age, so we accordingly ran out OF pro-
visions and the last three days ate
mussels straight. There were plenty
of them on the beach. 1t rained and
showed continually and we had no
ten. I bought one blanket and one
quilt but they got soaked the first
thing so 1 was soaking wet the whole
II days.
1--WE stopped at Ushuaia, Argentine,
on the way back. That is the farther
est south postoffice in the world. Ar
gentina owns part of TERRA del Fuego
and have the federal prison located
there. There are 500 convicts located
there on a new rock pier, and it's a
dandy, too They have numbers on
their hats to show the number of
years of their sentence, and others on
their breast to show the nature of
their crimes. There were some tough
looking hombres among them.
Il was gone over three weeks on
that trip and didn't enjoy one minute
of it, l met only three Yankees, as
they are termed here, since 1 came
one sailor, one preacher, and the con-
sui. There are lots of English and
German, though.
1T rains or SHOWS almost every day
here now. take it that right here is
about the same climate as they have
around Portland, even though it's a
whole lot farther south than Portland
is north
1.-The trip to those islands for 22C
miles was through channels. Talk
about scenery! 1t was some 'scrump-
tuous' Solid ice mountains q never
knew what an iceberg was before)
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