INDEX
Agriculture, peculiarity of production, [109] ([125]-153); principal regions, [125]; chief crops, [126]; size of holdings, [127]-9; land agencies, [130]-1; usual land tenure, [132]; dependent on railways, [132]; produce (tables), [135], [136], [137] (table); increase of sown lands, [139]; statistics of area (table), [140]-1; profits of (tables), [147]-151; wheat, [154]-161; agricultural exports (table), [227]: total value of agricultural and pastoral holdings, [372] Agricultural census, see Census Agricultural industries, see Industries Agricultural machinery, see Machinery America, see United States Andes, climate of, [73] Area, of Argentine, [72]; cultivable, [76] Argentine nationality, the, [59]-68 Argentine Republic, the position of, [71]; boundaries, [71]; area, [72]; climate, [72]-4; soil, [74]-6; scourge of locusts, [77]; rivers, [77]; almost a desert nation, [115]; production of wheat in, [154]-161; foreign trade, [211]-234 Austria, trade with, [226] Bahia Blanca, port of, [89]-90 Balance-Sheet, the, of the Argentine, ([349]-372); securities in circulation (table), [352]; revenue of same (table), [355]-356; interest paid on foreign capital, [357]; table of English capital, [358]; of French, [361]; German, [363]; favourable balance, [367]; total value of farms and estates, [372] Banks, ([261]-278); balance-sheets of, [264]-268; nature of business, [266]-70; clearing-house, [270]; balance-sheet of the bank of the Province of Buenos Ayres, [271]; see Mortgage Banks Bank of the Nation, the, [270]; balance-sheets, [272] Belgium, trade with the Argentine, [219]-225 Boundaries of the Republic, [71] Bourse, the ([278]-286); extent of operations, [280]-1; organisation of, [276]; regulations, [283]; table of operations, [283]-4; value of securities quoted, [284] Brazil, trade with the Argentine, [219], [225] Breweries, [242] (table), [243] Budget, the ([295]-309); amounts of, [296]; cause of excessive budgets, [299]-304; composition of, [305] Buenos Ayres, [83]; harbours of, [81]; market of, with statistics (table), [84]-5; port, inward and outward trade of, [85] (table); importance as a port, [86]. Buenos Ayres, province of, [142] Bullion, imports and exports of (table), [218] Butter, exports of (table), [241]-2 Canada, wheat production, [160]-1; immigration policy, [161] Capital, foreign, invested in the Argentine, [351]; English, [358]; French, [301]; German, [303] Cattle, numbers of (table), [211] Census, agricultural, of 1905, [127]; of 1908, [128]; of 1888, [134]; of stock of years 1888, 1895 and 1908, [169]; of 1908, [171]; of cattle, 1895 and 1908, [172]; 1895 and 1908, [241]-2; of land, 1908, [372] Cereals, congestion of, on railways, [109]; shipping of, [110]; warehoused at railway stations, [112]; where grown, [126]; area under, [142]-4 Colonisation, commencement of, [116]; comparative failure of policy, [117], [121] Colonising agencies, [131] Commerce, see Foreign Trade; commercial balance (table), [212], [232]-4 Companies, see Limited Companies Concessions, harbour, [88]; railway, [99] Conversion, Caisse de ([342]-348); conversion fund, [313]; failure at first, [313]-5; operation under new laws, [347]; metallic reserve of, [347]; present functions of, [318] Córdoba, [142]-4 Cotton, [199]-201; profits, [200] Currency, the double ([330]-341); origin of, [330]-1; depreciation of paper, [331]-2; bimetallic standard established and suppressed, [332]; gold premium, [332]-3; excessive issues of paper, [334]; law of conversion, [337]; speculation in exchange killed by, [339]; monetary situation of the country, [341]. See Caisse de Conversion Dairy industry, [240] (table), [241], 242
Electric lighting, [257] Electrical industry, the, [256]; tramways, [256]; (table), [257] England, wheat imported by, from Canada, [161] Estancias, model, [163]-167 Exchange, see Double Currency Exports, see Trade. Tables of, [160]; of wheat, [159]; of general, [213], [221]; of meat, [239]; of butter, [241] Finance, see Balance-Sheet of the Argentine. Financial crisis, the, [289]-291 Fisheries, [248] Flour exports, [237] Foreign trade ([211]-234) France, trade with the Argentine, [219], [224]; French tariffs highly unfavourable to the Argentine, [223]; decadence of trade, [223]-4, [229] Fruit-farming, [202], [207] Germany, trade with the Argentine, [219], [222] Great Britain, trade with the Argentine, [219], [222] Harbours, see also Ports, development of, [83] Immigration, ([113]-121); supremely needed, [114]; paradise of, [115]; statistics of, [118]-9; statistics of (table), [120]; difficulty experienced by immigrants who wish to buy land, [121]; mistaken policy, [121]; in Canada, [161] Imports, see Trade and Tables of, [219], [226] Industries, Agricultural ([187]-207); sugar-planting and making, [187]-192; profits (table), [189]; vine-growing and wine-making (table), [192]-195; tobacco-planting, [195]; acres planted (table), [196]; cultivation of the mulberry and sericulture, [196]-7; the maté industry, [197]-8; imports (table), [198]; cotton-planting, [199]-201; where grown, [199]; profits, [200]; oil, [201]; rubber, [201]; fruit-growing, [202]-207 Industries ([235]-249); dependent on agriculture and stock-raising, [235]; sugar factories, [236]-7; flour-milling, [237]; refrigerating industry, [238]; (table), [239]; dairy industry, [240]; (table), [241]-2; breweries, [242]; (table), [243]; weaving, [244]; tanning, [244]; the quebracho industry, [244]-248; timber, [248]; fisheries, [248]; mining, [251]-5; electrical, [256]; (table), [257]; electric lighting, [257]; (tables), [258]-9 Italy, trade with the Argentine, [219], [226] Japan, trade with, [230]-1 Labour, great opportunities of, [115] Land, vicious system of ownership, [118]; prevents colonisation, [121]; average size of holdings, [127]-9; national possessions and enormous private holdings, [129]; land law of 1907, [130]; system of tenure, [132]; agencies, [131]; auctions, [131]-3; areas in cultivation, [134]; rise in value, [139]; values of, and sales, [174]-185 Limited Companies ([286]-292); constitution of, [286]-8; the crisis of 1890, [289]-291; table of capital invested in, [291] Linseed, profits of, [150] Locusts, [77] Lucerne, [137]-8; use of in stock-raising, [162]; affects value of soil, [174] Machinery, agricultural (table), [144]-5; tables, [146], [148] Markets, Buenos Ayres (table), [84] Maté, [197]-8; where gathered, [197]; imports, [198] Métayage, [133], [138] Mines ([250]-5); gold, silver, copper, coal, antimony, sulphur, etc., [253]-4; mining laws, [255] Mortgage Banks, [275]-278 Mulberry, cultivation and use of, [196]-7 National debt, the ([312]-329); tabulated amount of, [312]; first loans, [314]; further loans, [315]-321; table of internal debt, [322]; total debt, [323]; interest on, [324] Nationality, the Argentine, [59]-68 Pampa, the, [75], [144]; production of wheat per acre, [157] Pampero, the, [73] Parana, Rio, the, [79]; navigable value and dredging of, [80]-1; ports on the, [82], [88]-9 Plata, La, port of, [86] Plata, Rio de la, [79] Plate, river, see Plata Population, density of (table), [113]-4; [117] Ports, [82]; statistics of (table), [83]; on the Parana, [82]; Buenos Ayres, trade of (table), [85]; see Plata, [86]; Bahia Blanca, [89] Property, large private, [129] Provinces, population of, [113]-4; produce of, [137]
Quebracho wood, effect on value of land, [74]-5; the quebracho industry, [244]-248 Railways ([91]-112); mileage of (table), [93]; general statistics (table), [94]; comfort and equipment, [95]; statistics (table), [96]-7; revenues of, [98]; administration and tariffs (table), [98]-9; cost of, [99]; concessions, [99]; guarantees, [99]; mileage, [100]-1; comparative mileage (table), [102]; projected lines, [103]-4; Government policy, [104]; future development, [106]; celebrated aerial railway, [107]; indispensable auxiliary of production, [108]; congestion of traffic, [109]; mileage and capacity of cars (table), [111]; warehousing by, [112] Rainfall, [73] Refrigerating industry, [238]; (table), [239] Revenue, [305]-310 Rivers, [77]-82 Rosario, capacity as port, [80]-81; second port of Argentine, [87]-8 Rubber, [201]-2 Santa Fé, [142]-3 Seasons, [72] Sericulture, [196]-7 Shipping, [110] South Africa, trade with, [225] Spain, trade with the Argentine, [219] Stock Exchange, the, see Bourse Stock-raising, ([162]-173), [125]; where followed, [127]; probable decay of old large estancias, [130]; industry undergoing modification, [162]; use of lucerne in, [162]; account of model establishments, [163]-167; breeds of horses, [163]; cattle, [163]; sheep, [164], etc., seq.; importation of pedigree animals, [168]; statistics (tables), [169], [171], [172], [173]; value of stock (tables), [172], [173] Sugar ([187]-192); where grown, [187]-8; profits (table), [189]; size of harvests, [191]; bounties, [195], [236]-7 Tanning, [244] Tariffs, [215]-217 Taxes, direct and indirect, [305]-308 Telegraphs, [257] Telephones, [258] Temperature, [72] Territories, national, population of, [113]-4 (table); private property in, [129] Textile industries, [244] Timber trade, [248] Tobacco, [195]-196 Trade, foreign ([211]-234); exports and imports (table), [213]; excess of exports (table), [214]; metallic imports (table), [218]; imports with countries of origin (table), [218]; Imports (table), [220]; exports (table), [221]; commercial balance, [232]-4; see industries ([234]-249); in chilled or frozen meat (table), [239]; value of exports, [326] Trade, see Industries Traffic, through ports (table), [83]; railways, [89]-112; shipping, [110] Tramways, horse and electric, [256]; (table), [257] United States, wheat, production of (table), [158]; exportation of (table), [159]; trade with the Argentine, [219], [229] Uruguay River, [79] Valuation of Soil ([174]-186), see Land Vines, [127] ([192]-5); where grown, [192] Whaling, [248] Wheat ([154]-161); statistics of, [136],[137] (table); profits of growing (tables), [148]-9; production of (tables), [154]-5; production per acre, [157]; production in U.S.A. (table), [158]; yield per acre in, [158]; exportation of (table), [159]; exportation from Argentine and India (table), [160]; in Canada, [160]-1 Wine, [193]; imports of, [193]; consumption of, [193]-4; production of (table), [194]; capital, [195]