The Palmas Produce Co., which is a component part of James Nelson & Co., and has a capital of £500,000, exploits the district of Campana.
La Blanca, with a capital of £300,000, established at Buenos Ayres.
The Plata Cold Storage Co., with a capital of £403,805, situated at La Plata.
Recently another refrigerating establishment has been inaugurated at Zarate, the property of the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co., with a mechanical equipment allowing 150 bullocks and 600 sheep to be killed per diem. Its capital is £200,000.
To this list we may add the Kemmerich Products Co., which manufactures extracts of beef. Its capital is £480,000, and it is established at Santa Elena, in the Province of Entre Rios. This company owns 2700 square miles of land, 340,000 cattle, 20,000 horses, and 50,000 sheep.
The exports of the refrigerating establishments for the last seven years are given in the following table, which shows the enormous increase in the export of quarters of beef during the last few years.
Exports of Frozen Meat (1901-1908).
+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+---------------------------------+
| 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 |
+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| Whole | Quarters | Whole | Quarters | Whole | Quarters | Whole | Quarters | Whole | Quarters of Beef |
| Sheep | of Beef | Sheep | of Beef | Sheep | of Beef | Sheep | of Beef | Sheep |-----------+---------+
| | | | | | | | | | Frozen | Chilled |
+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------+
Sansinena Frozen Meats Co. | 985,294 | 157,740 | 1,289,628 | 304,108 | 1,072,248 | 291,621 | 1,207,801 | 242,940 | 1,002,146 | 332,302 | 59,535 |
River Plate Fresh Meat Co. | 927,648 | 170,123 | 1,120,263 | 301,881 | 1,000,562 | 370,663 | 855,039 | 335,136 | 680,836 | 204,436 | 174,242 |
Las Palmas Produce Co. | 809,785 | 170,512 | 1,019,331 | 224,224 | 1,095,678 | 291,266 | 1,056,996 | 312,870 | 867,832 | 337,640 | 29,099 |
La Blanca | | | | | 213,112 | 42,513 | 424,486 | 178,709 | 244,299 | 177,470 | 38,408 |
The La Plata Cold Storage Co. | | | | | | | 129,456 | 140,343 | 369,299 | 350,096 | 100,423 |
The Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co. | | | | | | | | | 33,830 | 30,300 | 24,304 |
Rio Seco | | | | | | | | | 67,248 | | |
The Frigorifique Uruguayenne | | | | | | | | | 96,846 | 14,876 | |
The Frigorifique Argentine | | | | | | | | | 126,882 | 64,601 | |
+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------+
| 2,722,727 | 493,375 | 3,429,222 | 830,213 | 3,381,600 | 996,023 | 3,673,778 | 1,209,998 | 3,489,218 | 1,511,631 | 436,002 |
+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------+
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+
| Whole | Quarters | Quarters | Whole | Quarters | Quarters | Whole | Quarters | Quarters |
| Sheep | of Beef | of Beef | Sheep | of Beef | of Beef | Sheep | of Beef | of Beef |
| | Frozen | Chilled | | Frozen | Chilled | | Frozen | Chilled |
+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+
Sansinena Frozen Meats Co. | 773,243 | 300,605 | 67,996 | 812,624 | 237,821 | 35,882 | 1,058,862 | 263,832 | 65,497 |
River Plate Fresh Meat Co. | 553,589 | 249,071 | 163,624 | 419,186 | 221,009 | 128,359 | 476,569 | 263,673 | 185,294 |
Las Palmas Produce Co. | 664,860 | 320,064 | 32,570 | 669,325 | 255,797 | 28,627 | 648,974 | 256,918 | 58,468 |
La Blanca | 119,370 | 191,294 | 68,113 | 51,139 | 185,352 | 106,941 | 126,482 | 200,254 | 158,936 |
The La Plata Cold Storage Co. | 454,879 | 245,045 | 84,476 | 537,451 | 207,548 | 99,129 | 317,252 | 259,073 | 218,083 |
The Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co. | 14,172 | 110,579 | 38,705 | 34,679 | 118,041 | 40,675 | 32,385 | 136,009 | 81,302 |
Rio Seco | 104,047 | | | 261,335 | 101,792 | | 134,595 | | |
The Frigorifique Uruguayenne | 63,311 | 17,521 | | 142,070 | 76,475 | | 137,853 | 76,062 | |
The Frigorifique Argentine | 252,918 | 146,410 | | 124,890 | | | 405,353 | 123,142 | 21,768 |
San Gregorio | | | | | | | 133,835 | | |
+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+
| 3,000,389 | 1,580,589 | 455,459 | 3,052,699 | 4,403,835 | 439,613 | 3,672,182 | 1,579,163 | 789,348 |
+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------+