Ms THE WORLD'S MEAT FUTURE 



'There is much hope for the future of Entre Rio* and her 

 sister lands. Argentine Governors are generally large land- 

 holders, and sometimes practical estancieros aa well. In these 

 provinces they are rapidly beginning to understand that their 

 welfare is bound up with a steady development of the country's 

 resources rather than in the arena of politics. In the near 

 future also, the contending railroads must perforce cease 

 from troubling, consolidating and extending their systems to 

 thai mutual benefit of colonist and shareholder for which they 

 were originally created. Then, from the Alto Parana, from the 

 rich basin of which Asuncion in Paraguay has long been the 

 centre, most of the rich tropical products and all the quick 

 traffic will abandon the lazy rivers, with their hazardous bars 

 and twisting channels, and come swiftly across the rich penin- 

 sula. Tin- Long-horned cattle will whirl towards the south on 

 through trucks with inches of extra fat upon their ribs, and the 

 lolling peasant who views the inspiring sight will cast away his 

 home-made cigarette and get a firm hold on the foreign hoe. 



"■ We are treating of Spanish, and, indeed, to some extent, 

 of Indian-Spanish America ; yet the prophecy is not far off 

 fulfilment. For the land, which for over a century was a bone 

 of contention between the keen-nosed Spanish and Portuguese 

 explorers, whose fertility received the hall-mark of Jesuit 

 settlement, which is bounded by mighty rivers, rich forests, 

 and fertile uplands, and while facing the ocean, holds also the 

 key to the main gateway of the South American continent, 

 can never fail of a generous share in the tide of progress. 

 which i- steadily carrying forward the best interests of the 

 Argentine Republic. 



The Back Country 



It is highly advisable for the intending colonist in Argen- 

 tina to have a certain acquaintance with those territories 

 which lie outside of the strictly pastoral zone. They furnish 

 even now a home market for his produce, and as the country 

 opens up there can be no doubt that certain of these districts 

 will become of much greater commercial importance than is 

 at present imagined. 



" First in the list we will place the 'Gran Chaco,' a term 



