THE METROPOLIS OF SOUTH AMERICA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 585, 16 July 1913, Page 3

THE METROPOLIS OF SOUTH AMERICA.

Buenos Aires, the metropolis of South America, is - a wonderful city with .a wonderful country behind it. To begin with, it is larger than any British city except London. With its magniticent public buildings, boulevards, its opera-houses, and cafes with white-aproned waiters, you might well imagine yourself in Paris. The city has well-organised police, tramcar services, and one of the most up-to-date telephone systems in the world, while as a shipping port it trades with almost every civilised country. * The vast plains of Argentina which lie behind it across the great Continent to the Andes produce for Europe all the main requirements in the way of food. The cattle-ran-ches, with their miles of paddocks, produce the best of cattle without extra feeding, and/ to visit any one of them is to visit a stud farm of stock of the best (description. Connected with these ranches are ' the great meat "packing" factories, as well as the extract companies of world-wide renown. ' These lands, although pay right well in cattle, are, however, found to be stil more valuable for corn-growing purposes, and consequently the grounjl is being gradually ploughed up, and the cuttle are moving further south to less productive soil. The lines of grain elevators towering along th<*. (lock sides of Buenos Aires speak for the mormons quantities of corn which are now being exported year by year. On the far side of the great plains, nt the foot of the Andes, are mile liter mile of vineyards, producing wine which can hardly meet the demand already made for it.