Photograph by A. S. Iddings. © Keystone View Co. 

 AN ITALIAN SETTLER AND HIS FAMILY: MLNDOZA, ARGENTINA 



Mendoza is the southern California of Argentina. Irrigation has long been successfully 

 applied to its vineyards, which produce more wine than the combined vineyards of the entire 

 United States of North America. The whole of the province lies at an altitude of more 

 than 2,000 feet. Italians' are, for the most part, employed in the cultivation of the grapes, 

 the whole family accompanying husband and father to the field and assisting in tending the 

 vines. The babies are put to sleep in improvised tents while their elders work. 



Spanish-American cities. We shall have 

 occasion to return to the metropolis that 

 is at once the heart and the brain of the 

 country, but first let us look at the land 

 itself, of which the port is the gateway. 



The location of Buenos Aires combines 

 the advantages of those of New York 

 and of New Orleans in all that relates to 

 oversea and to inland commerce. Trans- 

 oceanic routes converge to the Rio de la 

 Plata as they do to the Hudson ; the navi- 

 gable waterways of the Parana-Paraguay 

 reach as far into the interior as the Mis- 

 sissippi-Missouri and offer deeper chan- 

 nels to navigation. As far as Argentine 

 jurisdiction extends, the Uruguay, Pa- 

 rana, and Paraguay rivers have been 



dredged and buoyed and already are pre- 

 pared to serve as arteries of commerce, 

 such as the Mississippi is yet to become. 

 North of the Rio de la Plata and be- 

 tween the Atlantic and the Parana-Para- 

 guay basin stretches the most beautiful 

 and healthful region of semi-tropical 

 South America. Here are the coffee 

 plantations of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the most 

 productive of the world ; here the Ger- 

 man settlements of Santa Caterina and 

 Rio Grande do Sul constitute the isolated 

 Teutonic colonies ; here Uruguay and 

 Paraguay form buffer States between the 

 great rivals, their neighbors, and here are 

 included the rich Argentine Common- 

 wealths of Entre Rios and Corrientes. 



