Show I IMMENSE PLAINS OF ARGENTINA Pampas the Most Level Plains I Found Anywhere In Inthe Inthe Inthe the World FORTUNES MADE MADE-IN CATTLE I J I Landlords LIve Ij c in iii S Ie Ic While I Peons amid anil mil PIl Present lt Great Grut Contrast The pampas of Argentina correspond very NY closely to 10 the Mississippi valley valey of the th states and the great plains of the of-the the Canadian Northwest North l. l but on a n showdown the they would prove far for truer to 0 the he name fame of plains than anything we have north of oC t the tl lie Isthmus of or Panama Nowhere else In the world Is there so large largo an ar area a that approaches M so O near an absolute level levelis us is f do the pampas lampaS The he exigencies o of railroad building b best t Illustrate this fact Look at a railroad map loam of Argentina and ind see sec how the lines radiate from Buenos Ayres like the tie spokes of a wheel Whether northwest to 10 and Cordoba west to the Andes southwest to the tie Pampa Central or south to 10 Mir Mar del tel Plata amid anil ali Balila Bahia Danea Diaries their thel course 1 I Is Invariably almost perfectly direct The Buenos Ayres Ares antI and Pacific railway has hits the lie lon longest est straight In lii tIme the wot Id wll where r between clia and lack hH In the lie heart of time tho pampas the tie he rails rais run roil for liS 15 miles mies without an Arm anInch much Inch of curve and but for Cor or an nn S at the former place would continue so o for or 2 j 1 ingles inies e This Is Indicative o of th the tm real thing In level le d land To the ht average Inhabitant of or the he pampas a gentle swell on the bosom osom of or th the he plain Is a thin thing of or Interest and a hill hi a tIming thing to revere I dont don't know exactly what tint his Idea of heaven Is Is but butI I feel eel perfectly safe In assuming that Ilat It II contains mountains The Thic pampas of today ate c at not tho ho pant pam pampas pas tins o of thirty years cars ago sa says a correspondent corre corre- of or the Los n els el's Times Then the lie pm pursuits were pastoral now those horticultural take tako the tIme lead leall and amid art are rapidly Increasing In Import Import- Importance ance rince Formerly master and amid man lived ed 1 alke alike both Iti In mud huts and amid on a diet did of o carne came o. o galletas and mate matl Now all al this Is for time the peons leons while tulle the lie masIer master mas Ier ter l di divides e tie the time between his palatial estancia house where he lit lives like a nu-dl nu val val baron haron and Buenos Ayres Ares and nl Europe Probably nowhere else In the world certainly not outside of or the he great SItt cities clUes Is there FO o o great 1 a gulf between let en the standard of living of tIme the tie highest st and the he low lowest st Nowhere have I seen such lavishly run establishments as those of or these land kin kings of or Argentina both loth native and British and Caucasians have I seen such primitive prim prim- hive and amid such hard living 1 as among the hue peons on ons and gauchos o of the me same countr country Standards of ot Lhing hll Vary my The eight or ten p weeks that I have spout spent In various parts pars of the pampas were almO almost t equally equal l 11 divided et between tl these must q diametrically opposite wa iia s H of or living glIn giving gi gl In lug ing me rime all ni the advantage al of or sunup sharp contrast contrast con con- In showing the one up tip against a the theother other oilier Is an nil amusing and rather novel experience to sit alt with wih the knees under uller aho an and sip Sill French wine from torn a glass lass of Mauze crystal one day anti and ant Ih the next to hunch up on a n hor morse c skull stool and md uck suck mate male through a f that ant has ins been In a dozen oth other mouths he- he fore rare It Comes H to you ou or p to tc 0 have Imperial lamb iamb chops S anti anil French peas for or 11 B 1 o'clock breakfast and for R 5 o'clock dinner dimmer a hunk of smoky greasy rea carne came cook cooked on a steel spike In l tho lie midst of an open lire lre and amid eaten by holding In the lie hands and amid aul rending with wih Iho hIlt teeth But nut whatever and by hy whomever whomever whom whom- ever cr dispensed nel It I was ivits tn erld with wih afree a afree free and unforced kindness thia Iha that reduced It all al to 10 the same sante level 1 Gentlemen Born and nHI Made Talking with wih an Englishman In Bahi mane a while a ago o he tie divided II hll his countrymen coun coun- who owned In the lie pampas pampas pampas pam pam- pas into Ito two classes el Those who were gentlemen n when th they came to the country country country coun coun- try antI and those host who w were ivere rc not 1101 I when they came caine care to the lie 11 country countr but lund had hl since become such uch through brought h the occasion occa sion slon of wealth following their foresight ht and good sool mma management The definition o of gentleman herein implied may I bo be somewhat somewhat some sonic what open to question lon otherwise Ih tIme the statement gives cs a very good Idea f the situation The Tho latter later do not return to Jn every summer on a visit have fads and amid uncles fancies will American Ameri AmerI- fewer Cr nl wi use can an machinery when it is proved pro ell to them that hat it wilt will wi do twice as much work ork with wih less ems em's men tItan than tho ho English h. and amid In Iii mal many other ther ways Wa display moro more horse hore sense sens than ban the lie born hor gentleman Most ost of or these e ire are making money mone faster Caster than thc they comm can COI count n t U It UThe I The Time others othes are making money too but because UW they cannot canno help It rather than for or an any other reason The They farm as as gentlemen farm In England and their their kennels and ant stables anti and fanc fancy cattle caUle and amid ant heir their Imposing but antiquated oral lural machinery are responsible for a substantial deficit every year ear which howver how- how ver r. their heir thousands of hectares of or land out lit to 0 i tenantry regularly make makl cod an and it'll with some seine to 10 spare Over and am nho e this the steadily Increasing value valm br f their lands Incident to time the growth of or orthe he the country Is doubling and tr trebling their a I h e every few fow years C rs r 4 Argentine drain Train There Is nothing ke an au al Argent Jie grain rain anywhere re rise else Ise In the lie and amid the of one on the lie Ino move f Is ha alone alon worth wortha a i I trip to the tho pampas I The They are ar special desIgned for this country an and amid could bUsed b hi he Used iced In no mio 10 other oUr One of or them would be fin sir too wide whit to io 1 pass nass S through an nn Eng Ung hish sh lne Line lane far too long bug to 10 turn an ordinary or or- Inary roads cross corner In II the Ihl StateR far loo luo tin heavy to 10 be e lell In Iii any uny country where where horses C were were- not al bJ bed beil bedrock rock tack prices price A wood good sized w on will wi vil ho be from forty to fifty feet reet lon and from rom roe tw welt Iv to fifteen feet high l and h time the drivers driver's ors ers tf'S sta seat fat twenty feet fet or more from the ground nd The horses used appear I at Innumerable tind actually it at t tImes s run ruin c two and three score orl Tile They tt arc are driven either by ly the Jerk Irk line Inc system common n In Iii southern south south- NIt ern California and th the San Son Joaquin valley val vol Icy ley or h by hy reins nm run out omit olt to ra the lie leading pair 1 lr Tho ho capacity of or one of f these e eP ve- ve P hides J Is enormous and anti the general rule rul of a la w makes a carload will wi not hot soften toften he lie found round amiss The principal prin cipal Idea Illa of so o hart hart-c a wa wagon on Is to 10 have ha that will trill wl not be bt en engulfed ulel II by the time mini or dust of or the bottomless s of Lit L the but hut It also ha has hns Its Is eco economic tco- tco co- co advantage In a c country where whre men are are- urt scarce and no horses horles moist's plentiful Qualities of of s Th The Tho gaucho of th he pampas Is l. l th the lie coun coun- of our out co cowboy v oy of or the and th time the boundary rider of the he Austra Austra- Australian l lian Ifan n bark ark blocks and ml he me Is la In la many ninny ways Vf n as al attractive a n character aa as 01 f i of his brothers II Ills worst fall eem to be c his extreme carelessness carl ne It In Inre re regard uril fl to 10 tho ho of those liotte him but bu ut a n as ho hmo in Is equal equally careless ss of or his ow own f r cann cannot t see aee tt where this can logically ho h. lucId held against him hInt As a n Jn han cr N o n of Mock Ilok he lie he Is la possibly time uie peer per I of oe a Queensland Queens Queens- ns- ns land laud drover dro but Lut la is certainly no uio not to ho h In be mentioned In the he same name breath with wih u ii Texas as Arizona o 0 r Montana cow cowboy oy nor with time tho l oat of Mexican vaqueros J had 31 this conclusion In mown m m own mind mm from th tl thi first frat time I had seen what were wen aid ald to be e expert rt gauchos working woking a roundup round hence I was the time more mor pleased 11 when not long 00 ago a bunch of oC half n dozen Texan came Caine to ho this limb on on an nn exhibition tour and demonstrated to 10 the satisfaction Hon tion of everybody that that that- h both luJi tr In method execution In the of oC nOI cattle ant and horses time UIO North orth American Is far tar superior to the South American C Ml t h by n I 1 say Kiy demonstrate to th the Mt n A of c everybody as at a matter matter- mater of fact fuel It I was I to 10 the lie extreme satisfaction of or every er C one omie Ar- Ar hut but the Saxons Anglo Thi Thi- lm a average t Is mIllie lacking in anythIng resembling rt a sporting Instinct and arid he ime li teak It very hard harl when he him Il saw his representatives rep outclassed Id I'd In Ina Ina ina BO so 11 completely f Ima imagined a kind of work he hI had hal fondly In his Ignorance that thE they wre supreme At Al no Ito branch branchi of their heir work did tIld dil the th tow Ion 10 boys s 's not lot make the tl gauchos appear fairly ludicrous In comparison In roping rotting anti and tying and amid at breaking and auth riding untamed un- un In- In tamed d l steers horses horseM and mules the time work of or the leans wa was imas 13 neat ami OI expeditious tow that tha of the Ar and amid Uruguayans Urn Urn- and slow A cowboy would rope and tie te a steer In from to 10 forty s so 0 o deftly that lint It could coul be released wl by b u it I single pull where the gauchos would spend pend jive hIt minutes smothering tIme tho animal In a acol coil coll col of or rope from which a surgical operation op op- op- op was wa rol usual usually required to r release has hasI It I. I Buenos found the lie dose dos a n ahard hard hat one on to swallow hut but time the best of them finally got sot It lawn down and ant admitted that hint their men In were wr outclassed tl at their own wn game ame The TIme English papers stood UI up manfully for th the lie wor Texan lexan xan visitors rC race pride no doubt doubt but but but th the Argenti were oh obdurate url to the lie the la last t. t continuing lug ing Ins dOg doggedly ly to Insl Insist t that thai the na natives had nil all nl this the thE best of or the he competitions |