Diario las Américas Newspaper, May 12, 1957, Page 27

process of natural selection wag implacable. Like a coin, this remote “ranch” presents two faces. One wooded, } cool, and. mountainezs, lying west y of the seventy-second meridian; }, the other, to the east, flat, imper- / meable, and with the only vegeta- tion a sparse growth of dry yellow grass. The kand is still poor, for the soil lacks phosphates and lime. Continuous drenchings have washed away whatever fertilizing elements it may have had. The hostility of the environment has given Tierra del Fuego sheep a special resistance to intense cold and poor forage. Their wool_is of top quality. More than one local politician has attributed to the hu- man inhabitants of the zone the virtues of its sheep:vigor, an in- stinct for finding food under dif- ficult conditions and _particular- ly the courage to face the contin- gencies of life in the farthest cor- ner of the world. Military policeman at Ushuaia, Argentine naval base. Resident Manager of ‘ Behety Ranch Worla’s iarges Photographs by Richard Harrington Reprinted from AMERICAS, monthly magazine published by the Pan American Union im English, Spanish and Portu- guese. ' : Policemen at Beagle Channel outpost, assigned for two months, welcome passing sailors with hot coffee and home-made bread, Porvenir, in Chilean Tierra del Fuego, is largest ‘town ‘on island’s west coast, i 1,200. Tr i LSE RTA DORR CSCO uD eT ee SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1957 HEMISPHER