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Title: South American neighbors..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stuntz, Homer C. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: N.Y.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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k to Cape May. There are over twenty steamshiplines from Europe and twelve steamship lines fromNorth America. From this total of actual and potential resourcesgreat discounts must be made. Millions of acres inBrazil lie so low as to be little better than marshes.Almost impenetrable jungles, wide and rainless desertslike those of Atacama and Tarapaca in northern Chilefill the traveler with disappointment. Malaria andother tropical diseases are unchecked over wide spacesotherwise inviting. Savage and half-savage Indiansroam unhindered over Amazonian areas as large assome of the North American provinces or states. Butwhen all the discounts have been made, the great factstill confronting us is the vastness and richness ofSouth America. Latin America may already be considered as inde-pendent, from the agricultural point of view; it pos-sesses riches which are peculiar to it; coffee to Brazil;wheat to the Argentine; sugar to Peru; fruits andrubber to the tropics. ... It may rule the markets
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Copyright by Keystone View Co. MUNICIPAL THEATER, SAO PAULOAVIENDA RIO BRANCA, RIO DE JANEIRO CONTINENT OF TO-MORROW 17 of the world. The systematic exploitation of its mineswill reveal treasures which are not even suspected/l Sparsity of Population Resources so rich and on a scale so vast guaranteea population far more numerous than that now foundin South America. Argentina, with a territory aslarge as the United States east of Omaha, has only8,000,000 people, or 1,000,000 less than the state ofNew York. If Argentina were populated as denselyas Japan, her census would show 412,816,000 people.If Brazil had as many people to each square mile asMassachusetts, her population would reach the astound-ing total of 1,345,538,000, or but 350,000,000 lessthan the population of the whole world. Certain andrapid growth in population over areas so fertile and ina climate so favorable is something about which wedo not need to prophesy. People are coming now bythe hundreds of thousands. There are n

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