[20] Already well begun. As will be seen from the latest statistics, given in another chapter.
[21] United States Banks have recently opened and are opening branches in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
[22] These approximate figures relate to the three years immediately preceding the commencement of the war.
[23] If the Province has lately found difficulty in paying the interest on its debt, this has been on account of large expenditure on Public Works; coupled with mismanagement of its large revenues.
[24] In regard to the outlying Provinces it should always be borne in mind that the number of head of Live Stock possessed by them need not and usually does not afford any indication of value, for the farther one gets from Buenos Aires the less careful breeding one finds, and therefore the greater predominance of native cattle and sheep.
[25] L’Argentine telle qu’elle est.
[26] Native riding whip of solid hide, straight and tapering.
[27] The boleadora consists of two or of three round stones encased in hide and attached, each by an independent thong, to the end of a lasso. The thongs with the stones are swung round the head and, suddenly released, twine themselves round the legs of the animal to be caught; which is thrown down by the jerk of the tightened lasso.
[28] Monograph attached to Argentine Agricultural and Live Stock Census, 1908.
[29] This is largely due to the heavy cost of transport even from the mines to the railway head at the City of San Juan.