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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. 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