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THE BAY AND CITY : VALPARAISO, CHI US 



The city of Valparaiso, as well as almost the whole of Chile, have been severely tried by 

 earthquake, and the fact that the nation has risen from each such disaster with no apparent 

 interruption to its growth is nothing short of remarkable. The city was almost wholly 

 destroyed on August 16, 1906, by an earthquake and the terrible fires which attended it, 

 sustaining a $100,000,000 property loss. Yet within a single decade few, if any, traces of the 

 disaster may be seen, and the city is larger and more prosperous than ever. 



Argentina is in that elementary state 

 when it is most exposed to injury by the 

 vicissitudes of climate. Great fields are 

 cultivated by few hands. The poorly 

 prepared soil, the shallow plowing, the 

 neglect of cultivation, all invite losses in 

 any but a favorable year. 



In the east the rainfall is usually abun- 

 dant or excessive. There are areas of 

 Buenos Aires province which are inun- 

 dated by heavy rains, and great drainage 



works have been undertaken by the gov- 

 ernment at the instance of the land- 

 owners. From east to west the rainfall 

 diminishes till it becomes insufficient for 

 agriculture in the average year, and farm- 

 ing can prosper only where irrigation is 

 practicable. 



SOILS SUITED TO EVERY CROP 



Thus the pampas, of which we may 

 think as a monotonous region, exhibit 



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