New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-20
Brazil Destined
To Rank Among
Worlds Leaders
Bonanzas in Minerals, Rub
Der, Sugar, Other Indus
tries Await Development

territory than DfaLll, SaSS S'N''
American writer in 1.-THE Christian
Science Monitor" A leviathan country.
he terms the southern land, adding that
in size only Russia, Great Britain (witn
her colonies), China and the United
States. if Alaska is included. exceed
Brazil in territory. Her 3,292,ooO
square miles have coast line more
than 5000 miles in length, the largest
river in the world, the Amazon, when
has a length of $3.50 miles, 100 OF its
200 branches being nayigable; and her
lands extend through temperate and
tropical zones, rolling from valley ana
tableland up to green mountain sum
mits that lift their heads lO,Ooo ieet
above the level Of the sea.
1t was evidently due TO Limited
knowledge Of geography or IAN MS
torical accident that the sturdy
Portuguese received by the division OF
western lands in the bull Of Pope Alex
ander VI. 1893, and treaty with Spain
the following year. more than half OF
South America, but this fact has al
ready had momentous results upon the
shaping Of Brazilian life and instltu-
tions.
Destined to Become Great
II is because of her range Of ma
tional physical possibility that TINS
Southern republic is destined 10 pc
come great with a greatness that ohIy
the richness of land and water extent
can give. II is a country that pos.
sesses several hundred thousand
square miles of unoccupied territory,
much of il utterly unexplored, thou
sands of square leagues Of forests, re-
gions as extensive as half of Europe,
in which the deposits OF iron, manga
nese, and minerals of almost every de-
scription await the approach OF
worlds need.
There are two distinctive features
of Brazil's territorial massiveness ina.
difrerentiate her from any other Vass
world domain. In all her sweep Oh
lands the country has no deserts put,
on the other hand. contains by Tar the
largest section of fertile and unusueo
land and river space TO be found any
where. Interminable reaches OF coun-
rvs, lie hack from the Amazon, thinly
wooded, with gently rolling mus eapa-
BILE under cultivation of raising three
crops of corn yearly, and Destined 10
be one day the arena OF the greatest
cattle ranges known to man.
Industry Fast Spreading
Already the cattle and mining and
railway and timber colonizers and pros
rectors are edging upward through Klo
Grande do Sui, Santa Catharina, fst-
ara and Sac Paulo, spreading their
webs of enterprise over the vast IN,
tarior states of Matte Crosse and
Govaz. which contain an area OF over
O0O. 600 square kilometres, one-fourtn
If ali Brazil. When they reacn
Amazonas. the giant of all Braziiian
states. they will meet the rubber ana
sugar nioneers coming westward oy
river and by railway from Para. Great
;nIard cities will mark the passage OF
the Amazonian forest; a Brazilian Cnl-.
GOO nerhaps. in the virgin heart OF
Scntb America, or a new and vaster hio
do Janeiro. sitting in her queenIy
strength half way between the souVnvli y
oceans whose sceptre OF unequalleu
nosjtion and prominence Will De over
all of the BraZils. g., .r
In the Amazon Valley the land fur-
,;sbos NOT rubber only, but also ivory
nu,s woods and cacao, while there
80 eions OF an enormous boom coming
in cotton. promising TO be as important
~ ~ rorth as the cattle boom is pc
cor,ing 20 the south of Brazil. Inc
contra1 section is notable for It's de-
nosits of gold, diamonds, manganese
svgar fbre. hardwoods and large
,raJa in hides. Regarding petroleum
in This central region, one is met witn
tho remark: "The prospectors 90 not
toII all thew know" There are no IRON
va n,anoanese deposits like those IN
prez;I 70 be found anywhere else, save
nnesiblv in the Ural Mountains.
Colonists Fuse in South
Tho south Of the country is at pres;
ont the New West, the luSlns gLou i.
of coIonists and the home OF agrlc1iV-
ure. numbering, fruit raising con
growing and entering prooapIy one .,
The greatest boom PERIODS tHe eoa"si'
has ever known in the cattle pustne1s,
II may aid ones conception Oh tL0
vastness of the future lot TINS sou
ern and temperate section Of pta|,, "
realize that the four states OF the n,H
lillian southland, together WIN snI
lover end of Matte Crosse, nHc'uueu
Within the temperate ATTITUDES ana nav
inc a climate not unlike that OF OallIor'
&c contain an area greater than one.
third of the entire unlteu o'ates
North America, or more land capaole VI
cultivation than is included IN the con, com
bined area of Colorado, Dtan' wy
ming. Idaho. Montana, Washington
OREGON. California, Nevada, Arizona
-" The crv Of Brazil for many years 70
.or,a must be "Give US men TO match
our country" If the population Of
Rrazil were as dense "a that Oh per
rum at the beginning OF the European
war. its territory would contain r1oIe
human beings than exist at present on
the entire face of the earth IL IS est SUI
mated that the countrys Za'ooo,ooo
could be with justice TO the resources
increased at least elghtlold'
Need Men for Development
ave need men-labor, labor, labor
that Is the cry of all these sparsely
populated South Americas" writes one
a. the best informed foreign residents
"a om | met in Brazil. immigration
should be encouraged" he continues,
"but this can only be done if you find
a class of immigrants who will not as
sumo the strut of conquerors." lie
added: 81 have often thought that the
saving OF these countries Of South and
Central America lies in the hands OF
the people Of the United States, II we
but knew il and realized the moral re,
sponsibility, as well as the political
convenience. But 70 accomplish this,
some strong current Of public opinion
should be created in the United States.
Il will not be enough to present the IN
yestment itself as a financial posi-
bility. Our country should be made
aware that if we do not help these peo-