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Show CHANCE FOR OAR IN S. A. GROWS Motor Men Find Fair Roads In Neighboring Republics Repub-lics of South DETROIT, Nov A With the gen J eral Improvement of th highways In South America and a betterment in business conditions, a bright future i seen for the motor cur Industry in that section by J. D Mooney. vice president and general manager of tho Geaaral Motors Export company, who visited the Cadillac factory last week, accompanied Dy Ainert aoionniy, manager of the Buenos Aires branch of the export company. Because of the great, amount of discussion dis-cussion repfirdlng the necessity of more and bettor roads in South Amor-lco Amor-lco before the automotive btiFlness can develop. Mr. Mooney's comments on this subject are of particular importance. import-ance. He eavs. Mlj.l s OF STREETS. "VTe have not yet realized in an automotive way the possibilities of the roads already built. In Rio I found many miles of good streets and pavements and the number of automobiles auto-mobiles there is nothing like what It should be in view of this development. develop-ment. In Die state of Sao Paulo I drove for seven hours with scarcely a stop over the fine new road recently opened from Sao Paulo City to Rl-beirao Rl-beirao Prelo, 26a miles into the interior. inter-ior. This was a good road, like ma ay others In this section, and throughout Its h-nglh we passed very few motorists. motor-ists. SPOTTY K) ADS. "In Argentina I found spotty road conditions, particularly near Buenos Aires. In the interior, however, although al-though It was mid-winter when 1 was there, we had no trouble driving auv-whore auv-whore wc wanted to go Chile has a difficult road problem because of the mountains but in Peru I was much struck with the fine road from Lima to M Ira f lores, recently built by an American company I was much aur- j prised to see how many motor roads are In good condition. Many moo! automobiles can be used on them than are now in operation." DIRE WARNINGS. Regarding this trip over the Andes, Mr, Mooney says he was Riven many dire warninps as to the terrlfio cold always encountered en route, and. therefore, procured and donned all the available Polar garments that a day's shopping could locate. The actual act-ual railway trip wua made In a small, tightly closed compartment in which. In addition to its numerous OCCUPanta, was placed a wood stove which blazed merrily all the way. The windows were kept shut because be-cause of several of the passengers suffering from colds, and when tho Andes were finally crossed Mi Mooney was In far more danger of collapse from heat prostration than from freezing. Mr Mooney found the South American business man a most hospitable hospit-able gentleman. One reception followed fol-lowed another, and the gits ln lted to meet the general manager were In all cass the leading government, financial fi-nancial anil business men of the several sev-eral capitals. |