The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1924-11-13

Canada has Kicking Horse
river; Argentina has the Paraan,
which performs that way and Just
now is induIging In Its perennial
delta trick of tearing down islands
and rearing up new ones. A trip
up this beautiful, eccentric stream
~ described by VILLAIN II. Bar
bour In communication TO the
National Geographic society. MIR.
Barbour says;
We left Buenos Aires one cool,
showery morning In December (early
summer) on the side-wheei 12-foot
draft steamer Rerna. and after being
out OF sight OF land for hours, in a
turbid, muddy sea, reached the con-
| iluence Of the Uruguay and Parana
rivers and turned northwest up the
latter. The stream was miles wide,
the color of coffee with cream and
broken by numberiess marshy ISL
ands, The shores on the left we're
covered with plantations Of polar and
willow.
Argentina's Second City.
Next morning we made our first
stop at Rosario, the second largest
city of Argentina and notable ship
ping point for grain and flax seed.
II Is located on high clay bluffs west
of the river along whose banks there
lie huge grain warehouses and ele-
vators. which cut off our view of the
city proper, with its 100000 inhabi-
tants, large part of whom are Ital-
fans. The water beside the Rosario
docks IL deep enough for ocean
freighters, and the city serves as
port OF outlet for a great agricul-
tural section.
About sunset imposing white stuc-
coed church towers came into sight
ahead, and rounding great bend.
we came TO Parana, capital OF the
province of Enert Rios. II Ia
town of upward OF 1000 people and
exports large amounts of hides and
cereals; its wharves are equipped
with travelling cranes and backed by
Isolidly built concrete warehouses.
When day came the character OF
the country had changed. On each
side stretched endless reaches OF low,
partially inundated country densely
wooded with strange tropical trees,
linterspersed with an occasional
"feather-duster" palm. The wide
flood was dotted with islands, large
and small, among which the buoyed
/, channel meandered. Cnmalotea.
which ths Spanish dictionary de-
Rcribes as river plants in South AM
erica resembling q floating islands"
| began to drift by. Usually only a
few would be Joined together, but
occasionally our boat would swing
abruptly aside TO avoid patches
which had collected about some
floating. up-rooted tree TO form ISL
ands so feet across
Strange "Islands' Dangerous
These canalotes make their APP
pearance In times OF high wator,
being carried out into the current
from the adjacent swamps. They
always harbor many snakes. In
1905, a great flood brought SO many
of these islands" down the river
that they stranded on the banks near
Buenos Aires and thus constituted q
public danger. Thousands Of snakes
with an occasional Wild boar or other
Ianimal which had lecome marooned,
went dbuDlt lutp tNt tultHSio DC
tween Palermo parl and the river,
and large force OF policemen armed
with machettes had to be put to
work killing them.
BY the third morning the terri
tory OF the Chaco lay to the west
of us, It's largely UNEMPLOYED swamps
and jungles covering an area OF at
least zoo, GOO square miles in North
! ern Argentina, Western Paraguay
and Southwestern Bolivia. Were H.
not for the home Of che quebracho,
THAT tree which Ia so important
source Of tannin, the region would
he even less known than 1t is.
Sleepy Town Reached.
In the forenoon we reached Cor
rientes, capital of the province OF
the same name. 1t Is typicalIy a
Spanish looking. sleeping old place,
with its one-storied white washed
brick homes showing only blank
walls TO the narrow, filthy, roughly
, cobbled streets.
Immediately above the city the
river is very wide, but, thanks to
high water we were able to stay close
10 the west shore behind a string Of
| islands Fresh-water gulls, small
cranes and large dull-blue king
fishers We'd for interest with the ALI
gators basking on the sunny banks.
Soon we reached the confluence OF
the Parana and Paraguay rivers and