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

. v IKE kamchatka and Timbukt
o Patagonia, at the southern Ell
-, of South America has lor
= stood as a symbol for the enc
! OF the earth; and along with this col
ception has gone the idea that it Is
frigid waste land. Magellan must hav
had such an opinion of the regio
when he sailed through 1t along tn
tortuous passage that bears his name
and the whalers and traders VIII,
rounded South America after hin
came away with similar views. Oar
win, studying the sandy wastes Of Ar
gentinian Patagonia on the Atlantic
side. thought the whole country a
worthless desert
Inc bad name which 1t got NAV
have held Patagonia back for time.
But man will go anywhere that for
tune beckons. 1t became known that
behind Its unlovely exterior Patagonia
ND excellent pasture lands, and ex-
perlnents proved that sheep flourished
there. Since 1914 when wool prices
showed sharp advance there has
been a great boom in Patagonia and
1t is now one of the worlds greatest
sheep regions.
Chile broadens out at its southern
extremity and includes the greater
part OF the sheep lands on TERRA Del |
fuego, the large southern islands, and |
on the mainland just north of the
Strait of Magellan. On the mainland
SIDE OF the strait is situated Punta
arenas, the metropolis of the Pata-
CONAN sheep country and the south
ernmost city Of any consequence In
he world.
Today, as in early days, the trav
Ter entering the strait from the Pa
INC receives poor impression of the Z
ana. AT Its entrance the passage is c
bout twenty miles wide, but il soon :
arrows to seven or eight miles. and y
one place is only two miles in F.
ldth. The shores are made up now ~
low, featureless hills on which Il
arceiy a tree or bush can be made q,
II, and again of great masses of rock >,
close view shows however that -,
uch OF the ground supports a short. &c
arse growth of grass.
coming upon Punta Arenas is great
rprise because of the contrast he ~
cen the apparently worthless land 49,
u TINS busting modern city. For th,
population, which Is about $4,000 en'
MIA Arenas Is the most CONNER. 49,.
lily successful of all Chilean cities 80
owes Its recent prosperity entirely Pc Pc
the growth of the sheep Industry 'ni
ports to the United States in n re- we, wa
I year totaled S12,OOO,OOO There .ne
also considerable export of ll
zen mutton to Great Britain. ma
Growth of Punta Arenas. tag,
ne earliest navigators passed tbjs dres
t. ana Sarmiento's band. settling the
IN the Sixteenth century, died of Pue
walton. On the site of old Port han,
me the Chilean flag was planted bers
$40. Yankee sailors and wbaIers aver
cd the forlOrn penal COLONY seas
dy point (Punta Arenas). and mem
lame survived. can
tie sixties the first steamship partl
between, Valparaiso and Liver oceal
WIS inaugurated, and Punta Arc and
.he most isolated port in South direc
lea, came into Importance. II ;s
miles from Bahia Blanca. the IT.
81 Dig port on the Atlantic. and otoa
miles from Talcahuano. on tbe s.on
coast. '"e tralla
,pt, fence
80 "''a arenas was island
d-iro, 80. 'o"h OF gal Patag
ma the news of the world tbat o. -
l'ips could bring Whenever tbe tn :
the end of the long pier tolled ro,, =,
the con,tno 90 IL her- thems,
tba oor,s,.,,' ''eaiher Gut foxes
"tail-end, cir, 'n"oi'ahts Rabl
ONE sheep
,raph and u,,ro, Patago
this region CO ,on hnaiiy by rat
impassahla troot su' VII Dy They e
ountry. in touch ,.,., u"cui'l- by bur
@. Now n hoe INC rest large
,wspapers. alight |
Panama canal some.
hard blow TIL uhta and In
But. in sniff 90 "a. was u four of
ice as port Of cou va. "anihg much e
d to thrive '"e CITY Argen
ig its eyes from, supplied
10 value its surrounding prov ,neii's d
$. sheep ranches multiplied s, %,aeon
ads stretched out toward tbo Guerra,
{ pampa; steadily Increos. 49, d
OF small vessels sailed into n 70
IAN channels. The metropolis ro oa, ,ne,'
lanes has taken on nIean reached
porous air pieas- the pres,
y mas half dozen reason l.o' ueeh
hotels which oftos .e"soh- would be
country, serve exceedingly s aseu ny
ais. There is practicaIlv ~ $40.
In heaviness of viands bo mn OH a
cheon and dinner, and mut. a, ne si,ua
as area of If