Evening star., 1924-08-21
ARGENTINA BOASTS
OF FERTILE PLAINS
Country Described as Having
Many Points in Common
With u. S.

Argentina, which, by entertaining
the Crown Prince of Italy. is run
ming few weeks ahead of the United
States in extending hospitality to
European royal scions, has many
poir is in common with the United
States, according to a bulletin from
the headquarters of the National Geo
graphic Society.
"A country of fertile plains, vast
fields OF grain and tremendous herds
OF cattle, situated in temperate
zone it is a land which may easily
be understood in it's major features
by people of the United States IA
miliar with the winning of our West"
says the bulletin.
Area -Four Times as Large as Texas
I'm this great region, more than
four times the area of Texas and
more than one-third that of the en-
tire United States. the Western cattle
man might find himself fairly well at
home. The language and customs are
alien, to be sure, but it is the Ian
guage of Spain and the customs of
the Spanish, with which large num-
bers of Americans of our own cow
country are familiar. In Argentina
prairies become 'pampas,' cowboys are
replaced by .gauchos,' and the lariat
must share with the bolo it's place
as an Indispensable part of the
equipment. Like his American coun-
terpart, the gaucho is an expert
horseman, thoroughly at home in the
saddle and somewhat awkward al d
i'll at ease out of it.
"If Argentine livestock men have
paralleled American methods they
have surpassed their northern fellow
herdsmen in the magnitude of their
operations. On the pampas herd OF
$4,000 sheep is considered small
Some herds number more than SOC, 1000
of the animals.
Devoted to Wheat Growing.
part of the great plains of Argen-
tina are devoted to wheat growing
to such good effect that many of the
= more populous European countries
have looked for years to this repub-
lie of southeastern South America as
the main source of supply for mate
rails for their staff of life. The nu-
merous huge grain warehouses that
dot the country throughout a large
section of Argentina announce un-
mistakably to the eye of the traveller
that this is one of the worlds fore
most wheat regions.
'Argentina is not alone a pastoral
and agricultural country. In BuenoS
Aires it possesses the largest city
situated south of the Equator, a
community of between a million and
a half and two million inhabitants
Within the past 15 years this city
has forged far ahead of Rio de
Janeiro, which was the former me-
tropolis of the Southern Hemisphere
Buenos Aires Modern City. -
"Buenos Aires is thoroughly
modern city which has lessons in
city planning for municipalities of
the Northern Hemisphere. a most
pleasing sky line has been achieved
through carefully framed building
regulations strictly enforced. The
streets are lined with trees even in
the business sections. The city has
the finest artificial docks in the
world. commodious and equipped
with the latest machinery.
Though most visitors. entering
from the east, see the country as a
land of plains, in the west it contains
the eastern slopes of the Andes, one
of the worlds most massive noun
tain ranges.
Famous Statue on Border.
"On the crest of one of the prin-
cfpal Andean passes, on the border
line between Argentina and Chile is
one of the worlds famous statues,
The Christ of the Andes This figure
was set up on the bleak mountain
pass in commemoration of the peace
full settlement of a boundary dispute
between the two countries, which
threatened war.
"Argentina covers a long range of
latitude, extending from north of the
Tropic of Capricorn to So degrees
south. position roughly comparable
in the Northern Hemisphere to that
from central Mexico to Hudson Bay"