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Jas. Chapman Writes of Travels
Mr. T. L. Bailey, Editor,
Dear Sir :
I have pleasure in complying
with your request for a “write-up”
«>f my travels through South Amer
ica and Europe.
Having lived in Bolivia, S. A.
for three years, I think it would
only lie justice to that country that
some mention of it is made and at
the same time to enlighten most of
the readers of the Journal of the ex
istence of a country of which so lit
tle is known. No exception is to be
taken of tnis s*atement, as the wri
ter himse f was forced to refer to a
map of Sou'th America in order to
ascertain its exact geographical po
sition before leaving for that coun
try. Futhermore, Bolivia should
not Ik: overlooked by virtue of the
fact that no other country in the
world contains more natural resour
ces than can l>e found in its eon
lines. For example, tin and silver
mines that were opened by the
Spaniard back in 1535 are still be
ing worked, —and hundreds of oth
ers are dormant on account of lack
of capital to work them. The gov
ernment is engaged at present in
constructing railways into the inte
rior of the country, tapping the
mineral as well as agricultural dis
tricts, which they figure will in
duce foreign immigration and cap
ital. The Germans though are ta-
king advantage of the ignorance of
the Americans and Englishmen as
to the opportunities offered hv Bo
livia, and arc picking the worms ol
wealth known only to the “Early
Bird.”
KABMINO
The Cordilliero, or Western part
of Bolivia, is the mining district
through which the railways, alrea
dy spoken of, pass. The terminus
of these lines is at Oruro, Bolivia,
13,<500 feet above sea level, and
the headquarters of the writer.
From this point the lines
drop to an altitude of (1,()(M) feet ü
bove sea level, opening up the rich
est agricultural region in the world,
where two crops can be gathered a
year, and without the assistance of
fertilizer, as chemicals are unknown
to them. The Indians are the far
mers of this country, and employ
the most primitive means of tilling
the soil. The ox is used instead of
the mule and a forked stick is sub
stitutued for the modern plow. The
land, by the use of such an imple
ment, is merely broken in clods,
which afterwards are crushed by
hand with a sort of mallet. Corn
is planted, but never ploughed af
terwards, merely allowed to stand
and forced to grow by such fertile
soil. Cotton growing is unknown
to the Bolivian, not because the
land in the agricultural district is
not adapted to its cultivation; but
by reason of the fact, they would
not know what to do with it, as
there are no cotton factories and no
means to convert it into a textile
article for sale.
Having dwelt long enough on the
merits of my starting point 1 will
now commence on my narrrative in
a condensed form, covering the in
teresting places visited by me in
my tour of 22,000 miles.
1 left Oruro on June 15, last,
reaching Antofagasta, Chile two
days later, where I took boat for
Yalporaiso. This distance was co
vered in about four days, much to
the delight of our lady passengers.
Our boat, a coast steamer, seemed
to be top heavy and very small, so
it naturally locked and plunged
considerably, in answer to the
ground swells.
From Yalporaiso 1 started on my
trip across South America, reach
ing Santiago some five hours after
wards, where 1 spent tvo days.
Santiago is a very pretty ] lace, and
enjoys one of the best climates in
the world by means of its altitude,
8,000 ft. above the sea. While in
Santiago 1 visited a hill in the heart
of the city, Santa I.ueia, famous
from a historical point of view, as
it was used as a fortification and
flayed a conspicuous part in the
revolutionary battles of that coun
try. This hill would not cover o
ver four acres, and rises to some
three hundred ft. above the city .
and covered in a thick growth of
tropical trees and flowers. W bile j
on the top with a party we expe-j
rienced two severe seismic shocks, j
which lasted for several seconds |
and during which time you could
see the earth quiver. I was con- 1
sidcred a marvel by the Spanish :
members of our party; because I
showed no sign of excitement, they
being of a very excitable nature. A |
very amusing little ' .cident hap- j
pened, caused by t'/6sc shocks. An j
old man endeavored to tell me \
something; but couldn’t, as he had ,
lost his sense of speech entirely.
through fright, which fact seemed
to frighten him the moie and he
turned with wild staring and fell as
a man subject to fits. His funny
attempts at speech appealed to my
sense of humor and I could not re
sist laughter. He soon recovered,
without assistance and then told j
intelligently how he was affected.
From Santiago we started our
trip across the Andes, which was
the most thrilling of all. On ac- j
count of the steep grades necessary i
in crossing this renge of mountains,
the rock railway is used and for
miles we continued to wind around
hills and through tunnels until we
ascended an altitude above the snow
line and as June is one of their
winter months, we were surrounded
in a perpetual blanket of snow. At
three in the afternoon we reached
the summit, and started on our way
down, when the snow on Imth sides
of the canyon gave way, pinning
our train pi and raising the ears
off the trucks. For six hours we
were forced to remain there until
assistance came, without food, fire,
or whiskey, even though we were
beyond the pale of prohibition. Af
ter enduring a few of the Peary
hardships we commenced our des
cent, reaching Buenos Aires some
thirty hours afterwards. The ride
through the wonderful cattle pro
ducing country of the Argentine
was extremely interesting from sev
eral view points. For hundreds of
miles this unbroken country
stretched out before us seemingly
the missing liuk connecting the ho
rizon. Its vastness of pastoral lands,
where countless numbers of cattle
were seen grazing, was amazing, to
me. This land which never suffers
from drought, account of its splen
did system of irrigation, was, some
10 to 15 years ago, government
property, and was taken up by for
eigners, chiefly Italians, under an
Act of Concession at ten cents an
acre and cannot now be bought for
fifty dollars an acre. This Phenom
inal increase in the value of land in
the Northern part of the Argentine
is due principally to the railways,
and now the same opportunities are
offered to the pioneers in the South
ern section, as the stillness envelop
ing that part has not as yet been
broken by the blast of a locomotive.
Surveys are now being made, how-!
ever,, and within the course of' a
few years this section will also he
opened up by railways.
it might be well to dwell a little
upon Buenos Aires, the great me- 1
tropolis of South America. This
city has likewise been keeping pace
with the bounds and leaps ot pros
perity, followed by an unstinted!
wealth, which is so obvious to the
eye of the traveller. Buenos Aires
is a city of one million and a half j
inhabitants, and, though Spanish, |
is rather European in its customs, j
designs of its buildings, etc., and j
enjoys the distinction of being one |
of the world's greatest metropolises, j
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