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Show II' BUENOS AIRES. April 11. Para - HI guay is a land of wonderful opportu-nity opportu-nity for North Americans, says W. L. J Schurz, United States trade commis- jfln sioncr, who has just completed a sev- mk en months' investigation of its rc- Gfl ! sources. Ten million dollars in Amcr- tt ican money has thus far been invest- fBm " cd in the little republic but in the Mm -3 opinion of Jlr. Schurz, millions more gKr ' of American capital would find a prof- hR itable return there. Rj Nearly the size of the state of Mis- EBr souri and with less than 1,000,000 SO inhabitants, Paraguay has untouched Pjpj resources of amazing variety and pos- Er slbllitics, Mr. Schurz told a corre- K spondent of the Associated Press. 1 KB Finest Woods hi "World jg? "Over half the country is forested ' Kg 'with the finest hard woods in the 1 world,' ho said. "Us soil and climate MB are , capable of raising anything under Hp the sun, including wheat and bananas. QLj Experiments have proved that more K, cotton to the acre can be raised on Pj Paraguayan soil than on any other 11 soil where cotton is cultivated at pres- Sii ent. It is good for tobacco and sugar. Ml it Is good for anything, gjjj "Oranges in Paraguay grow wild. RiB You would not believe .that only one j out of every 100 oranges produced in pill Paraguay ever is eaten. Eut it is so. jjlk Billions of oranges lie on the ground 'HfH? -y-, Valuable Iron Mines "j "There are deposits of manganese Sm 1 and iron of unknown extent that have M not been worked since the Paraguay - an war ended in 1S70. It is waiting I , for a railroad to be built to it. There B . "The American investments in Par- jj aguay at present arc in cattle, meat packing plants and quebracho. There 8 '. arc less than 100 Americans in the H whole country. They are popular with j j , the natives who think a lot of the |