State of Goias, in Brazil, South America. It is not an improved road, and even in our brochure we tell people it is not an improved road. We have asked the Government of Brazil to pave it for us, but whether they do or not, I don't know.

Senator WILLIAMS. Wait a minute. You gave me this brochure? Mr. SELIG. Yes. Look at page 12.

Senator WILLIAMS. What are all of these (indicating cover)? Modernistic, fantastically beautiful new buildings? Are they on your property?

Mr. SELIG. No, sir.

Senator WILLIAMS. Why is that on the front of your brochure? Are they anywhere near your property?

Mr. SELIG. That is the new capital of Brazil.

Senator WILLIAMS. How far are you from the new capital of Brazil? Mr. SELIG. The land we are presently selling is approximately 400 miles from this new capital.

Senator WILLIAMS. Well, that is the whole front of the brochure, the new capital of Brazil. Frankly, if I were innocent and filled with folly, I would think this had something to do with the property, the whole front page of this, "An invitation to meet at the foot of the rainbow to divide the pot of gold." And here we have Brasilia, right? And it is 400 miles away.

Mr. SELIG. That is right.

Senator WILLIAMS. What has that to do with your property?

Mr. SELIG. If you read the rest of the brochure, it may tell you.

Senator WILLIAMS. It would take much more time than we have now to read the rest of it. But I sure will tell you I am going to. Mr. SELIG. Well, it has quite a bit of information. I don't think anybody that buys my land thinks they are going to buy Brasilia.

Senator WILLIAMS. Can you give me a justification for making the front page of your brochure totally Brasilia, 400 miles away?

Mr. SELIG. I don't think I need to, sir. I think that is my business. Senator WILLIAMS. Well, that is why we are in business; because you are in this kind of business.

Have you ever been enjoined from operating in any States of the United States of America?

Mr. SELIG. Yes, the State of Florida. One of the States where they were selling some of this land that was, that one of your people testified about, that was worthless and so forth. And misrepresented. The State of California

Senator WILLIAMS. Did they ever talk to you about your operations? Mr. SELIG. Yes.

Senator WILLIAMS. What did they say?

Mr. SELIG. I have been enjoined.

Senator WILLIAMS. How about the State of Utah? Did they ever talk to you about your operations?

Mr. SELIG. They asked me to register in these States—

Senator WILLIAMS. Did you?

Mr. SELIG. I didn't want to pay $3,000 and that is what most of them want to register.

Senator WILLIAMS. How much did you pay for this road that is unimproved?

Mr. SELIG. About $75,000.

Senator WILLIAMS. How much is your total investment in the Brazil operation?

Mr. SELIG. I wouldn't have any way of knowing without looking at my books.

Senator WILLIAMS. You are in business in Brazil and you don't know how much money you put in.

is?

Mr. SELIG. I am sorry, I don't carry my books in my head.

Senator WILLIAMS. You don't know what your investment in Brazil

Mr. SELIG. I certainly do not.

Senator WILLIAMS. Finish your statement. As far as I am concerned, you won the case for our bill already. You can have this map back. But I want to hold the brochure.

Mr. SELIG. Thank you.

Next, I spent considerable time and money being certain that the land I was purchasing had clear, unclouded titles and that the land was free of squatters. I had the land surveyed and staked. Next, I set out to learn everything I could possibly find out about Brazil. I found out many things that were happening and that were going to happen to make Brazil advance rapidly in the world of nations.

When I write or speak of this land, I feel I can speak with authority. I know this land personally; and, if I can impart even a little of my own faith and enthusiasm to others, I can only feel that I am helping both the United States and Brazil.

Mr. Dickson also stated that I am not advertising or selling Brazilian land in Indiana. As a matter of fact, I have advertised off and on in the Indianapolis News, the Indianapolis Star, and the old Indianapolis Times for a number of years. I have also advertised in other Indiana papers and have sold Brazilian land to a number of Indiana people.

Gentlemen, there are probably few fields where so much misinformation has been published as in the Brazilian land sale business. This is one of the reasons why I have been so extremely careful of what I say and write. Everything I own stands behind my sales. I feel that my purchasers even though many of them probably will not see the land before buying-may act with confidence.

I would like to tell you something about Brazil. As a country, it is larger than the continental United States, plus another Texas, with terrain just as diversified. There are level plains, towering ranges of mountains, deserts, swamps, sweeping grasslands, and teeming jungles. A man sitting in his office in Rio, São Paulo, or even Brasilia, who says transportation is impossible is obviously giving hearsay evidence. The new BR-14 highway, sometimes called the "Highway of Dreams," now stretches a ribbon of superhighway 2,300 miles from Rio in the south to Belem on the north; and hundreds of fingers of new highway are creeping out into the remote areas. From BR-14 as a point near Porto Nacional, we have built a road into our land. It is not a hard surface road but it is passable and it is a beginning. We have asked the Brazilian Government to surface it, and they have written that they have it under advisement.

Now, about the land that I am offering. My land in Brazil, South America, is located in the State of Goias and is approximately 400 miles north and a little east of the new capital of Brazil, which is Brasilia. Our farms which we advertise for sale or have sold contain between 212 and 3 million acres, which would be approximately 4,500 square miles. In fact, if you put this land into one piece 11/2 miles wide, it would stretch from Los Angeles, Calif., to New York City. This is good land that will grow practically anything that is planted thereon, including corn, wheat, rice, coffee trees, cotton, bananas, pineapples, oranges, lemons or, for that matter, almost any fruit or vegetable that grows. With the use of fertilizers and with proper care,

this land could be made to produce excellent crops. The topography is mesa land, with vast rolling plains and, occasionally, an abrupt, flattopped mesa which is somewhat higher than the plains. These farms have an average elevation of about 2,500 feet above sea level, with an annual rainfall amounting to about 55 inches.

The temperatures in this region range from a low of about 50° F. to a high of about 85° F. The climate is tropical savanna and is quite comfortable with cool nights and moderate days. There are usually no strong winds at any time of the year.

Some of these farms have rivers that are from 3 to 6 feet deep and perhaps 30 to 50 feet in width. There is an abundance of good well water available in depths from 50 to 125 feet. These farms are knee deep in grass and have some small trees. This is some of the finest grazing land in the world. The soil is unusually deep, sandy, and relatively fertile. Nitrogen and phosphorous are usually the most common deficiencies. These farms are slightly rolling, just enough for good drainage purposes.

This is pioneer land; and presently there are no schools, hospitals, and so forth, closer than Porto Nacional. The closest stores are about 75 miles away. Although Brazil has built some of the world's largest hydroelectric plants, electricity is not yet available at these farms. Senator WILLIAMS. Mr. Selig, I read your bulletin.

Mr. SELIG. Yes.

Senator WILLIAMS. Are these distances from population described in your brochure?

Mr. SELIG. Pardon?

Senator WILLIAMS. Are the distances from the nearest habitation described in your brochure?

Mr. SELIG. Yes, sir.

Senator WILLIAMS. They are? All right.

Mr. SELIG. There are markets at Brasilia, Goinaia, Pedro Afonso, Dianopolis, Porto Nacional, and Bahia and practically all the large cities of Brazil.

Of the land that we own in Brazil, we have set aside 144,000 acres to be called World Experimental Farms. We have divided this into 282 farms of 500 acres each, with the remaining 3,000 acres to be used as a central headquarters. These experimental farms will be under the direction of two brothers from Rockford, Ill., presently the head of Charloais Registries International, Inc., and Mr. Veronon Hammett from Greenville, Miss.

We have contacted the U.S. Department of Agriculture, members of AID, members of Alliance for Progress program, and people in charge of the Peace Corps, and hope to get their cooperation with our experimental farms. We intend to get graduate students of agriculture with previous farming experience to take charge of our 282 farms of 500 acres each. Each man will be expected to use 25 acres of his 500-acre farm in conjunction with the central headquarters for experimental purposes to develop new crops that are best adapted to the land we have in Brazil. On the remaining 475 acres of each farm, the man will use his own initiative and will grow such things as fruit, vegetables, grasses, corn, wheat, rye, sisal, soybeans, sorghum, and so forth, and will raise cattle and other livestock. We intend to raise the best crops that are grown.

Our farms will be open for inspection so that the immigrant farmers and people for miles around can inspect them and can talk to our experts. We hope to teach the people living in the area as well as new people coming in how to best manage their land to achieve the highest possible standard of living.

We have asked for the help of 27 different universities throughout the North, Central, and South Americas and about 250 companies throughout the United States in the development of our World Experimental Farms. At the end of 10 years, we plan to give these farms to the University of Minas Gerais.

This project will be a nonprofit venture. Our board of directors includes Mr. Phillip McCully, president of Madison Bank & Trust Co. of Madison, Ind.; Mr. Richard Heck, who is on the boards of several banking institutions throughout Indiana; Mr. Edgar Whitcomb, former U.S. assistant district attorney and presently candidate for secretary of state, State of Indiana; Mr. Harold W. Jones, of the law firm Smith & Jones, Attorneys; and Father Raymond Crowe, who is chaplain of veterans' hospital, Indianapolis, Ind. Father Crowe spent several years as a teacher, missionary, and priest in Brazil, South America. We have also invited Judge Donald Hunter, judge of the appellate court, State of Indiana, and Dr. Herman B. Wells, chancellor of Indiana University. Dr. Wells is on the President's World Food Program.

Gentlemen, it is impossible to pick up a newspaper today that does not carry articles about the growing food shortage over the world. The world faces disaster unless we find ways to double the present food production. It is estimated that 5 million or more people will die of starvation within the next 10 years unless we can double our food production in the very near future. This world calamity of vast proportions can be just around the corner. President Johnson has launched a new war on hunger in his food-for-freedom program. Brazil is one of the most greatly untapped countries of the world's sources for averting this calamity. Orville Freeman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, said in São Paulo:

Brazil is potentially one of the world's richest food baskets. Brazil has more arable land than the United States, plus a plentiful water supply and a climate that in some regions can theoretically support three rice harvests a year. If properly worked, the soil of Brazil can easily bloom with enough sugar, rice, corn, fruit, and potatoes to feed the whole South American continent.

Our economic world today is built on speculation. Oil, mining stocks, and every item on the stock market involve a risk. I have taken every precaution I can possibly take to narrow the margin of risk in buying Brazilian land. My faith in Brazil has been well founded. Recently, our own United States has taken a great interest in Brazil, South America. Our country has many agencies at work in this great country to promote democracy with a better way of life for the Brazilian people. More than 13,000 companies throughout the world have built factories in Brazil during the past few years. Inasmuch as these companies, such as Ford, General Motors, and RCA, expressed their faith in Brazil, and inasmuch as our own U.S. Government is spending millions of dollars in this great country of Brazil, I don't feel that my optimism concerning this land is overdone. I have articles from the Miami newspapers, Saturday Evening Post,

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