The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-07-22

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caught in the nearby frigid water
| furnish a Characteristic Punta Arena
delicacy. These creatures are tw
feet over all. Only the legs are eaten
and their meat is like that of the bes
lobster
The Punta Arenas of today boasts
paved streets, good ships and build
ings of brick and stucco. Much cor.
rugated iron is still used on the out
skirts Of the town, however. There
has not been an entire break with the
past. Motor trucks find oxcarts still
competing with them in hauling the
never-ending stream of wool bales that
pours out of this far-away port.
Sea influences moderate the climate
OF Punta Arenas, which may be said
to be on the climatic border between
temperate and Antarctic conditions
OVercoats are necessary even during
the southern summer (our winter)
The average summer temperature Is
about 81 degrees Fahrenheit. The
winters, however, are not so harsh as
those of Canada.
Sheep Bring Prosperity.
The islands to the south of the
strait have the mildest climate of the
entire region, and the sheep lands of
TERRA del Fuego are higher priced
nan those of the mainland. There
ire nearly 100000 sheep in the Chill
an portion of the Patagonian region.
nd the vast expanse of Argentine
'atagonia to the north support other
llllions. One of the Patagonian
sheep magnates" is said to have an
lcome of over S1,OO0,OOO wear and !
single company owns more than /
100000 sheep. t
Wool is the great money crop. but t
e hooks must be kept within bounds
mere IS a great by-product indus o
IN mutton, hides and grease. These o
oducts are taken care of in ereo+ h
'ezer plants, numbers of which s,
my owned by sheep-raising corpora.
MS are scattered about Chilean Pat Ii,
'nla. A trip through one of these fe
ADJUSTMENTS dramatizes the Pafa- nj
nan sheep industry for the visitor til
nothing else can. ~
typical plant is situated at pner+o no
les, about $50 miles northwest Of or
TIA Arenas on one of the great r;o
IS OF the sea that penetrate far into
land, Last Hope inlet. AT tbis ~,
yer 80 butchers work on tba ~
am OF carcasses at the rate of - -
minute. The carcasses then nass
ugh many hands while being
ned and dressed, and wind Nm in G
cooilng chamber, where they re- q q
oay Leaving the cooling bas
iper on a conveyor, the carcasses -,
weighed and then passed ON to o -
ing machine. On some days the soh'
'ed sheep pass over the scale Of son'
rate of 1,2OO per hour. Tn tbo "@'
10 bories plant 1900 sheen can Dao,
DIT one time in the freezing cham g. az
Four thousand per day is tbe s sls'e
ge kill during the butcberine iran
L. III the cold storage compart- ooAe
! something like 100 0No aa ney.
e stored. The cold storage do the
ent adjoins the docks wbou and
going freezer steamers 10 deer
argoes for England arc Iooda, opera
y into holds. to be
Ranches Are Very Large.
ranches OF the Patagonian rp.
re huge affairs like those of Aus LET
and are chiefly -. " aus shutd
oco'cnmen from the Falkland niouel
Introduced sheep ranching into we're
ma and the shepherds TODAY ofhces
gely Scotch. The grass os No., sation
thern land Is most nourisb,nn and th
eep grow so fat that 70 .h ned al
their backs they cannot right
YES and fall an easy prev n
nd Wild dogs. ~ Lon,
u.s. the pest of Australia rotary
anchmen, are not present IN stated
IA put the country Is infested the Brt
~i'ich cause heavy losses the U
'ne grass and also DESTROY # pressin
among Its roots The cede to
ullpers of wild geese thot Tomato
the region also prove trouble.
ihey browse like the sheen ii
hon, Nil, ipe,i'ion. Three or Chica
iss as sheep. 1ono ~
Inc Patagonia is not so wo,, , rvsu' II
with slaughtering establish. wh hln'n =.
a freezing plants as Chilean "neH 81
l. fact which is causing con.
economic difficulty JUST no,v MOUNT
raised on the buoo - Cordo
iches OF the south primor,I,. pressed
"ooi' Last season the focks tain A.
.uge proportions and during City and
II season the pasturage has bers of
as eood as it was hoped II who ~
The ranchers are therefore ~"o on
ui'emma, and serious con. ~ moun
- oeing given to plan to mcCarth.
q bury thousands of sboon Foster al
ION may result in the exton bottom G
eezer facilities to largo scent of
yer Argentina. Cordoya