American Trout 



Descendants of 1914 

 Brood Reach 15 Pounds 

 In Nahuel Huapi 



By W. W. SHIPPEN, Jr. 



Star Staff Correspondent. 



BUENOS AIRES. — We've heard 

 a lot of stories about the North 

 American whoppers that thrive in 

 Lake Nahuel Huapi! . . . 



From the sportsmen who came 

 some 11,000 miles 

 from Hawaii to 

 fish for them, 

 and accompa- 

 nied us South in 

 the S. S. Uru- 

 guay. 



And later, in 

 Buenos Aires, 

 from a young 

 man who helped 

 his father and a 

 United States 

 Bureau of Fish- 

 eries agent in- 

 troduce them to 

 snow-fed 

 streams and w. h. SMppen, Jr. 

 lakes under the Andes in Patagonia. 



The young man is Diego New- 

 berry, a graduate of the University 

 of Minnesota, and now assistant 

 editor of "Mundo Argentino," a lo- 

 cal weekly magazine. His father, 

 the late George Newberry, was a 

 pioneer in the days when Patagonia 

 was frontier country. 



The elder Newberry, at the age 

 of 21, worked his way to Argen- 

 tina before the mast in a sailing 

 vessel, after graduating in dentistry 

 from New York University. He did 

 a lot of traveling in the South, and 

 became much attached to the lake 

 region of Patagonia, with its clear 

 water, snow-capped mountains and 

 rich grazing land. 



Trout Request Granted. 

 Mr. Newberry, about 1914, per- 

 suaded the Bureau of Fisheries in 

 Washington to send brook trout- 

 speckled and rainbow— to Argen- 

 tina for introduction in southern 

 streams and lakes. The bureau 

 dispatched an agent with several 

 large metal containers of fingerling 

 trout. 



The younger Newberry was about 

 12 years old then, and managed to 

 persuade his father to let him ac- 

 company him on the trip to the ! 

 back country. 



The trout were taken to the 

 end of the railway, then on the 

 Rio Negro River, about half way 

 across the continent. The remain- 

 ing 300 miles was done by mule 

 train. This trek lasted for more 

 than a month, and led across a \ 

 country partly desert. Getting 

 changes of fresh water for the 

 young trout was only one of many 

 difficulties like keeping metal con- 

 tainers cool by shading them from 

 the sun. The party introduced the 

 surviving trout into Lake Nahuel 

 Huapi, saving a few for the upper 

 streams. These they transported in 

 a container secured on two poles 

 which dragged behind an ox, In- 

 dian style. 



It was a long, rough voyage for ; 

 the trout, but the survivors must 

 have been selected stock . • . to hear 

 fishermen tell about them ! 



Descendants Grow to Whoppers. 



Young Mr. Newberry is authority I 

 for the statement that he has taken 

 descendants of the original rain- 

 bows up to 15 pounds in recent 

 years ! 



The sportsmen from Hawaii, who 

 had fished in New Zealand and 

 throughout the Southern Pacific, j 

 had heard about the trout for years, j 



They said if the fish of Nahuel 

 Huapi lived up to their reputa- 

 tions, they would be afraid to go 

 home without evidence (photo- 

 graphic and otherwise) to back up 

 their stories. 



I think I'm going fishing there 

 myself! The biggest rainbow I 

 ever landed was a 14-inch whopper 

 in the Blue Ridge Mountains. If 

 such trout grow to 15 pounds in 

 Nahuel Huapi, I'm afraid one of 

 them will land me! 



Next: The "wild and woolly' 1 

 Argentine. 



Who 



In Patagonia Tame; 



Present Generation^ 

 Recalls Rustlinq^d 

 Range Warfq^gF 



By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr. 

 Star Staff Correspondent. 



BUENOS AIRES. — The taming of 

 the West' sent some tough citizens 

 down this way in search of a new 



frontier. " 



They showed up looking for broad 

 minds and wide pastures after 

 law and order ••' 

 moved into Tex- * ^ 

 as, Arizona and 

 khe Northwest— .... 

 keen, soft-spoken || 

 men, who said 

 little and saw 



Such things as V| k ^^' 

 Indian raids, 

 cattle rustlings, ;|| 

 and open war- 

 fare for choice 

 ranges are with- 

 in the experience 

 of middle - aged 



i° Lilian W. H. Shippem jr. 



father! and there were rough-and- 

 ready days no farther back than 

 the 80s during the building of La 

 Mata (the capital of the Province 

 of Buenos Aires) and the extension 

 of railroads into the interior 



A friend of mine here, the son 

 of a pioneer Patagonian land ^ owner 

 has helped to fight off rustlers 

 thfeving Indians, ^ ^al 



bad men from his father s neras 

 and Rasing lands in the Southern 

 . Andes, and he is still a young man! 

 His father came to Buenos Aires in 

 the 80s on a sailing vessel from 

 New York, in the days when pas- 

 fenlers were landed at the water 

 front in high-wheeled ox carts 

 Eged oveVa mud bottom to the 

 anchorage in the channel. 



Unofficial Official. j 

 -There weren't many North 

 Americans down here then, tne 

 *nn said "and my father became a 

 tort of 'unofficial vice consul Some 

 Pretty strange fellow countrymen 

 drifted nto port from time to time 

 ana 1st of them looked up my 

 f ather-for advice, a night s lodging 

 a loan or what have you. My father 

 had a big heart. He helped them 



al "One C p U ar% he often- told about 

 conSedfofthree-two Westerners 

 smri a hard-faced blond woman. 

 T^fey said mey thought of setthng 

 in the South, and required much 

 specific information-about roads 

 facilities for water travel, settle- 

 ments tonks and police protection 

 My father helped them all he could 

 before he began to wonder why 

 three such hard-looking customers 

 we worried about police protec- 



^Well he found out later. Those 

 three were the fanciest shots who 

 ever hit the south country. They 

 robbed the local bank and such 

 estancias as had anything worth 

 bieeine off. The old ranches were 

 few and far between. Each house 

 usually had a tree or so for shade. 

 The party had an original way of 

 Enouncing its arrival, ^e— 

 would ride around the ranch tree 

 It a full gallop, cocking off the 

 bark in a perfect circle with her 

 six shooters. 



Soldiers Learned Lesson. 

 "Then the men would drive off the 

 horses from the estancia, herding 

 K ahead. Soldiers went in pur- 

 suit men they drew too near, the 

 three would shoot the legs from un- 

 der the pursuing horses. They were 

 so talented at this the soldiers even- 

 tualy learned not to get too near- 

 when they did, they usualy stopped 

 to have mate! I don't know what 

 happened to the three in ^ the end, 

 but they semed to have gotten clean 



aW 'Mv father used to tell of a young 

 Texan who landed here off a boat, 

 penniless and without friends. He 

 seemed a likeable, clean-cut young- 

 Ite^and my father lent him money 

 to set out of the country. He heard 

 "from him a year later-from the 

 Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. 

 Inclosed in the letter was money to 

 repay the loan, and an explanation 

 cf the youth's presence in Buenos 



Ai "tt seems he had been a member 

 nf a gang of cattle rustlers who 

 Raided Telas herds dressed as Mexi- 

 cans ana Mexican herds dressed as 

 Tpxans They prospered until one 

 of The gang betrayed them q into an 

 ambush that proved fatal to several 

 rStlers. The youth escaped and got 

 I boat, south &om » O S 

 While in the Argentine he learned 

 toa his mother had been arrested 

 as a ringleader of the gang, and re 



turnedto try * «* »™*S^ 

 with the result that he himseii 

 Ended in jail on a murder charge 

 tt p /lid not say so, but left tne im 

 Session he had killed the betrayer." 

 About "Two-Gun" Smith. 



"Two-Gun Smith" shot his way 

 into the legends of the country ^dur- 

 ing the building of La Plata in tne 

 <£! we hailed from the American 

 Northwes^nobody knew just , where^ 

 His enemies said he came to rob and 

 femained to take a more lucrative 

 lob as bodyguard for a boss poh- 



tiC At n that time a railroad was being 

 pushed from La Plata on the coast 

 to Mendoza in the mterior The 

 laborers were holy terrors to the 

 ftt°e cow towns along the route on 

 nav days. "Two-gun" was hired to 

 Sore" order. He did this *o ef- 

 fectively that he became a power 

 to the land, and even, it was ; said 

 elected his own governor after the 

 Sad opened up the fruit and 

 wine resources of Mendoza. 

 The Argentine in general and Fa- 



^go^irrparticular f * law-abld- 

 inc regions now. Deeds of violence 

 SI scant indeed compared with our 

 » ri m P record. The only culprits 

 Xse activities have . been strenu- 

 ous enough to break into the local 

 naoers since we've been here are 

 deputed to be the followers of one 

 "Chaco Chico." a suspected kid- 

 naper accused of other misdeeds. 

 The authorities say he issued or- 

 ders that resulted in the death oi 

 another shady character The ^wind- 

 pipe of the latter unfortunate had 

 seen compressed between the head 

 and shoulders until he was dead. 



I'm glad to hear that Pategonia 

 is not too wild and wooly. We : have 

 train reservations we don't wish to 

 concel. For several days we ve been 

 negotiating by wire to turn out some 

 gauchos to boleadora Patagonian 

 Khes for the Washington Zoa 

 This is proving difficult, as its tne 

 Sny seaCandthe gauchos' horse, 

 may not be able to outrun the long- 

 Sgged birds on a muddy track. 

 Next: Eve of Independence Day. 



Was the Peon 



Because He 

 Afford an Ostrich? 



Dr. Mann's Party Debates 

 The Question in a Ride 

 Over Monotonous Prairie 



By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr. 



EN ROUTE TO BARILOCHIL, 

 Pfltasonia— Was the peon wealthy 

 ^cause he could afford an ostrich? 



We debated the question, for lack 

 of something 

 better to do, § 

 while our train j 



ran through a \ 



desert— an end- 



less monotony of ; 



dust, scrub,: 



bunch grass anc 1 ; 



1 o n e 1 y s h e e 



camps. 



The ostrich m 

 question strolled 

 in and out of a 

 thatched shack 

 beside which our 

 car halted, for 

 some unex- 

 plained reason, 



%ogJ a and Pl chiidren tumbled out 

 to look us over, while the ostrich 

 Ind a flock of chickens, less curious 

 but more practical, made the best 

 of ^ opportunity to gobble up such 

 trifles as struck their fancy. 



"The ostrich is eating more than 

 all The chickens," said the zoologist 

 fn our party. "He's eating the fam- 

 fiy o" house and " Look 

 how thin the children are! An_ os- 

 trich gobbles everything m sight- 

 eyeglasses, wrist watches jew 

 ± % * * I knew a diamond mer- 

 chant in Bolivia who all but lost his 

 fortune because of an ostrich! 

 Probably Looked Up To. 

 "That may be," admitted a vet- 

 eran of the Patagonian back coun- 

 y "but I insist that the peon 

 must be rich, compared with his 

 npleh bors, to be able to afford an 

 osS ill bet his family is re- 

 garded locally as well to dc , The 

 neighboring wives are saying to their 

 husbands, 'I see that the Joneses 

 have an ostrich-why cant you get . 

 ahead in the world?'" j 

 The old-timer pointed out that 

 the peon-the head of the house- 

 hold—was nowhere in sight That 

 peon is out herding sheep to make , 

 a living for his wife and family, 

 L said "If you notice other shacks 

 you'll see bread-winners sitting j 

 ' Sound resting. They don't have an 

 ostrich to make them get up and go 



S °^A e iT h right"" yawned the zoologist, 

 "vou win But please don't spread 

 that propaganda around here ! You 

 see I'm in the market for a flock 

 of Patagonian ostriches. I would 

 nrefer that the Patagonians regard 

 ostriches as liabilities instead of 



assets!" . 



Monotonous Country. 



The conversation languished, as 



well it might. The flat country, 



hour after hour, only repeated a 



total lack of variety. The approach 



of twilight purpled the plains to 



the far rim of the horizon Now 



and then our train flashed by the 



Ares of lone sheep herders. We 

 tested our necks tc . see , them 

 wrapped in ponchos, huddled over 

 tiny blazes. It was cold on the 



de once, at nightfall, a single pro- .;. 

 lection came over the horizon— a 

 ny landmark far off in the scrub 

 It turned out to be a wmtoffl '* 

 awav-the only sign of habitation 

 for 40 miles or more. 



The North Patagonian Desert 

 seemed infinitely lonelier because of 



0r The"adief ' in our party watched 

 the mindmill in the fading light 

 "I hope the woman wno lives 

 over there feels that she's getting 

 ahead in the world," one Of them 



SEl "So do I'" exclaimed the zoolo- 

 gist "Let's get off here-maybe 

 the family has an ostrich! 



Our train, however, kept 1 oiling 

 along. 



