Argentina and Uruguay

by Gordon Ross

• Agricultural instructors, [225], [260]
• Agricultural Show, [89]
• Agriculture, Argentine, Development of, [241]
• Agriculture, Cultivable area, [217], [237]
• Agriculture (Exports), [215], [242], [245]
• Alcorta, Dr. Figueroa, [2], [3], [64], [65], [66], [67], [208]
• Alfalfa and wheat, Alternation of, [224], [225], [254], [255]
• Alfalfares, [158]
• Alta Gracia, [149]
• Americanisms, [44]
• Anarchists, recalcitrant, [198]
• Anchorena (family), [187]
• Andalgalá, [164]
• Andes tunnel, [124]
• Arab-Semitic blood, [41]
• Araújo, [299]
• Argentines and Uruguayans contrasted, [42], [45], [59], [60]
• Aristocracy, Argentine, [4]
• Armageddon, [227]
• Arrowroot, [236]
• Artígas (general), [30], [31], [38], [71], [152], [301]
• Artígas (Department), [63]
• Asistencia Publica, [14], [54]
• August, 1914, [94], [95]
• Avellaneda, [141]
• Avenida de Mayo, [14]
• Azul, [142]
• Bahia Blanca, [140]
• Balfour, Jabez, [169], [170]
• Ballot, [36]
• Banda Oriental, [30], [31], [60]
• Bank Holiday, [19], [94], [95]
• Banks, [18], [112], [137]
• Banks of Issue, [103]
• Baring, [31]
• Batlle y Ordoñez, Señor, [33], [70]
• “Bear” (a famous), [118], [119]
• Belgians, [27]
• Belgrano (General), [168]
• Belle Ville, [149]
• Bella Vista, [155]
• Bermejo (River), [168], [205], [206]
• Boleadora, [15], [170]
• Bolza (Buenos Aires), [117], [118]
• Bolza de Cereales (Buenos Aires), [116]
• Bomberos, [14]
• Borax, [168]
• Brazil, [35]
• Bread and meat, [222]
• Bridges, The late Mr., [199]
• Britain, [259]
• British railway management, [53]
• British trade methods, [106], [107]
• Buenos Aires (Province of), [63], [139-44]
• Buenos Aires (Province), Chief products of, [142]
• Buenos Aires (City), [82], [83], [90], [92]
• Cafayate, [174]
• Caja de Conversión, [19], [98], [99]
• “Camp,” [11], [60]
• Campo, Dr. L. del, [67]
• Campo Santo, [174]
• Canelones (Department), [63], [214]
• Capital, [11]
• Capital, Federal, [63]
• Carbó, Dr., [18]
• Carmen de Patagones, [190], [193]
• Carnot, [74]
• Carré, Ferdinand, [251]
• Castilian language, [43], [44]
• Catamarca (Province of), [63], [163], [164], [165]
• Catamarca (Province), Chief products of, [163]
• Catamarca, City of, [164]
• Cedulas, Argentine National, [114], [115], [119], [120]
• Cedulas, Provincial, [119]
• Census (Commercial and industrial of city of Buenos Aires), [137]
• Centenary, Argentine, [67]
• Cereal cultivation, Chief areas of, [223], [224]
• Cereals (export), [246]
• Cerro Largo (Department), [63]
• Cervantes, [43]
• Chaco, The (Territory), [63], [214]
• Chacrero, [27]
• Chaves, Nunflo de, [250]
• Chicory, [236]
• Children, [57]
• Chile, [35]
• Chilled meat, [251]
• Chiripá, [14]
• Chivilcoy, [142]
• Choele Choel, [190]
• Chubut (Territory), [63], [193], [194], [195], [196]
• Chubut (Territory), Chief products of, [196]
• Cinnamon, [236]
• Club Uruguayo, [79]
• Coffee, [173], [218], [236]
• Colastiné, [145]
• Cold storage, [254], [265]
• Cold storage companies, [222], [269], [272]
• Colon Theatre, [85]
• Colonia (Department), [63], [214]
• Colonist-s, [7], [10], [27], [228], [265]
• Colonist, The case for, [229]
• Colonization, [10], [27], [97]
• Commissary, Police, [68], [73]
• Common sense, [5], [7], [50], [59]
• Comodoro Rivadavia, [193], [194]
• Comparative movement, in Ports, [125]
• Concessions, [51], [52]
• Concórdia, [152], [153]
• Congress-es, [62]
• Conquistadores, [43], [46]
• Constitution-s, [62], [65], [72], [75], [174]
• Conventillo, [91]
• Conversion Fund, [99]
• Conversion Law, [76], [98], [99], [100], [101], [102], [103]
• Copper, [164], [166], [179], [184], [192], [214]
• Córdoba, Province of, [63], [145]
• Córdoba (Province), Chief products of, [146]
• Córdoba, City of, [146], [147], [148]
• Corn Exchange (Buenos Aires), [116]
• Corrientes, Province of, [63], [153]
• Corrientes (Province), Chief products of, [153], [155]
• Corrientes, City of, [154], [155]
• Cost of living, Comparative, [84], [85]
• Cotton, [2], [8], [16], [181], [219]
• Coya Indians, [172], [173]
• Credit, Commercial, [111]
• Credit, Customary trade, [112]
• Credit, National, [76]
• Credito Argentino, [120]
• Crisis of 1890, [31]
• Cuenca Vidal, [189]
• Curanderas, [159]
• Curanderos, [159]
• Curuzú Cuatia, [155]
• Daireaux, Godofredo, [1], [299], [302]
• Defensa Agricola, [239], [240]
• Departments, [63]
• Deputies, Chamber of, [63], [67]
• Development of River Plate territories, [1]
• Dique San Roque, [149]
• Doctrinairism, [27], [69], [70]
• Doinnel, Hipolito, [268]
• Dollar, Uruguayan, [43]
• Drabble, Mr. Alfred, [269]
• Drama, Native, [86], [300]
• Drought, [225], [259]
• Dulce, River, [158], [163]
• Durazno (Department), [63], [212]
• Earthquakes, [176]
• Elections, Corrupt, [36], [68]
• Emigrants, [12]
• Empedrado, [155]
• Entre Rios, Province of, [63], [150]
• Entre Rios (Province), Chief products of, [150], [151]
• Espinoza, Juan de Galazary, [250]
• Estancia-s, [52], [53]
• Estanciero-s, [48], [76]
• Exports, [128], [130], [135], [136]
• Exports, Cereal, [135], [242], [245]
• Exports, Live stock and products of, [135], [266], [267]
• Farming, [52]
• Fashion, [92]
• Ferry boats, Train carrying, [151]
• Fisheries, [199]
• Flores (Department), [63]
• Florida (Department), [163], [214]
• Formosa (Territory), [63], [205], [206], [207], [208], [209], [210]
• Fortune-tellers, [55]
• Frozen meat, [251]
• Frozen and chilled meat (exports), [275]
• Futures, Grain, [116]
• Galician language, [44]
• Gallegos Port, [197]
• Garay, Juan de, [249]
• “Gatos,” [117]
• Gaucho-s, [2], [13], [47], [48], [158], [159], [170], [171], [172], [173]
• German trade methods, [104]
• Gibson, Mr. Herbert, [171], [229], [250], [262], [264]
• Goes, Brothers, [16], [250]
• Gold, [157], [179], [187], [200], [214]
• Gold speculation, [103]
• Golondrinas, [109]
• Government, [4], [5], [62], [64], [74], [75], [76], [77]
• Government, Provincial, [64], [65], [77]
• Government, Municipal, [77]
• Granite, [203]
• Grapes, [177], [180], [181]
• Groussac, Mr. Paul, [43]
• Guanaco, [173]
• Guaraní, [43]
• Guayra Falls, [202]
• Guido y Spano, [299]
• Halbach, Mr., [261]
• Harvesters, [8]
• Harvests, [26]
• Harvests, Recent, [245], [246]
• Havre, [251]
• Hernandez, José, [299]
• High Court, Argentine Federal, [2], [3], [63]
• “History of Belgrano,” [249]
• Hops, [236]
• Horse breeding, [253]
• Hospitals, [53]
• Hot springs, [174], [188]
• Hotels, [90]
• Huerta, President, [38]
• Humahuaca, [168]
• Hurlingham, [89]
• Hustling, [105]
• Hypothecary Bank, Argentine National, [114], [115]
• Iberá, Lake, [156]
• Ibicuy, [151]
• Iguazú Falls, [151], [182], [201], [202]
• Ilex Paraguayensis, [220]
• Immigrants, [228]
• Immigration, [42], [126]
• Immigration (Comparative returns), [126]
• “Imperio in Imperium,” Railway, [216]
• Imports, [129], [130], [131], [132]
• Independence, Declaration of, [29], [47], [162], [168]
• Indian-s, [15], [41], [46]
• Intendente Municipal, [62], [64]
• Intensive farming, [6], [255]
• Intermarriage, [41]
• Interpreter, [108]
• Interventor, [66]
• Iron, [214]
• Irrigation, [137], [149], [150], [158], [160], [162], [163], [166], [167], [175], [177], [180], [186], [188], [189], [190], [227]
• Italianate population, [42]
• Ituzaingó, [155]
• Jesuits, [160], [185], [201], [202], [203], [204], [205], [221]
• Jeunesse dorée, [58]
• Jockey Club, Argentine, [5], [88]
• Juarez Celman, [31]
• Jujuy, Province of, [63], [167], [168], [169]
• Jujuy (Province), Chief products of, [168]
• Jujuy, City of, [168]
• La Frigorifique, [268]
• La Paraguay, [268]
• La Plata, City of, [139], [140]
• La Rioja, Province of, [63], [165], [166], [167]
• La Rioja (Province), Chief products of, [165]
• La Rioja, Province of, [165], [167]
• La Rioja, City of, [166]
• Labour, [7], [11]
• Lago Pellegrini, [189]
• Land, [5], [7], [51]
• Lands, Fiscal, [7]
• Language, [42], [43], [44]
• Latent landlords (Latifundíos), [9]
• Latifundíos, [207]
• Latzina, Dr. Francisco, [17], [236], [237]
• Lavalle, General, [168]
• Laws, [72]
• Leach family, [167], [169]
• Lead, [179], [214]
• Lertora, Mr., [54]
• Liebig factories, [153]
• Linseed (export), [242]
• Live Stock, Chief areas of, [255]
• Live Stock Disease, Comparative absence of, [258]
• Live Stock Disease, Precautions against, [258], [259]
• Live Stock Products (exports), [266], [267]
• Live Stock on Hoof, Prohibited importation into Great Britain, [258], [259]
• Live Stock (statistics), [256], [257], [262], [263], [264], [265]
• Loans, National, [114], [115], [119], [120]
• Loans, Provincial, [65]
• Locusts, [238], [239], [240]
• Los Andes (Territory), [63], [214]
• “Los Remedios” Estancia, [261]
• Lotteries, National, [88]
• Lugones, Leopoldo, [299], [302]
• Maize (export), [242]
• Maldonado (Department), [63], [214]
• “Mañana,” [20], [49], [225]
• Marble, [166], [179]
• Mar Chiquita, [149]
• Marcos Juarez (town), [149]
• Mar-del-Plata, [5], [88], [123], [141]
• Mármol, José, [299]
• “Martin Fierro,” [299]
• Martinez de Hoz, Señor, [253]
• Mate, [56], [220], [221]
• Mate Yerba, [202], [203]
• Mauduit, Señor Fernando, [277], [278], [298]
• Mayflower, The, [44], [194]
• Meat, Early export of, [268]
• Meat trade (exports), [270], [271], [272], [273]
• Meat trade, Recent, [269], [272]
• Mendoza, Pedro de, [249], [250]
• Mendoza, Province of, [63], [174], [175], [176], [177], [178]
• Mendoza (Province), Chief products of, [175]
• Mendoza, City of, [176], [177]
• Mercedes (Corrientes), [155]
• Metan, [174]
• Metric measurements, [106], [107]
• Mihanovich (boats), [201], [202]
• Mihanovich, Nicolas, [81]
• Miller, Mr. John, [261]
• Milling industry, [116], [145], [213]
• Minas (Department), [63]
• Minerals, [157], [163], [164], [166], [187], [192], [214]
• Misiones (Territory), [63], [200], [201], [202], [203], [204], [205]
• Misiones (Territory), Chief products of, [203], [204]
• Mitre, General, [31], [123], [249], [299]
• Mitre, The late Señor Emilio, [122]
• Mitre Law, The, [122], [123]
• Monetary system, Argentine, [101]
• Monetary system, Uruguayan, [33], [104]
• Monetary values, Equivalent, [100]
• Money Markets, [93]
• Monroe Doctrine, [105]
• Montevideo (City), [32], [45], [53], [79], [80]
• Montevideo (Department), [63]
• Moorish civilization, [41], [58]
• Mora, Lola, [301]
• Morals, [90], [91]
• Moratorium, [20]
• Mulhall, The late Mr. E. T., [191]
• Mulhall, The late Mr. Michael, [191]
• Nahuel Huapí, Lake, [187], [191], [194]
• National Territories, [62], [63]
• Negro blood, [40], [41], [46]
• Negro race, [15]
• Neuquen (Territory), [63], [185], [186], [187], [188]
• Neuquen (Territory), Chief products of, [187]
• Newton, Mr. Richard, [261]
• Nueve de Julio, [142]
• Old Colonial days, [29]
• Oligarchies, Provincial, [2], [64], [65], [66], [67]
• Olivera, Señor, [261]
• Once cereal market, [116]
• Onyx, “Brazilian,” [157]
• Oratory, [300]
• Palermo, [5], [87], [88]
• Palermo Agricultural Show, [253], [263], [264]
• Palermo race-course, [5]
• Pampa, A tale of the, [1], [44]
• Pampa Central (Territory), [62], [63], [182]
• Pampa Central, Chief products of, [183], [184]
• Paraguay, [35]
• Paraguay, River, [205], [206]
• Paraná, City of, [151], [152]
• Paraná Congress, [268]
• Paraná, River, [123], [143], [144], [145], [150], [151], [154], [155]
• Paraná, River, Upper, [202]
• Patriarchs, [1], [2], [48], [51]
• Payadores, [13], [299]
• Paysandú (Department), [63], [212]
• Peaches, [177], [180]
• Penna, Dr., [54]
• Peon, [12], [47], [48]
• Pergamino, [142]
• Petroleum, [193], [194]
• Philology, [43]
• Pig farming, [253], [254]
• Pilcolmayo, River, [205], [206]
• Pillado, Señor Ricardo, [17], [101], [241]
• Plaza, Dr. Victorino de la, [18], [34], [39]
• Pocitos, [79]
• Politics, Argentine (foreign or commercial), [3]
• Politics, Argentine internal, [3], [4], [75]
• Ponchos, [14], [173]
• Population, [8], [15], [96], [97], [254]
• Population, Problem of, [226], [227], [228]
• Ports, [125]
• Posadas, [201]
• Poultry farming, [253], [254]
• Protective economic measures (War), [94], [95]
• Provinces, [62], [63]
• Public works, [137]
• Puente del Inca, [177]
• Puerto Deseado, [197]
• Quack doctors, [55], [159]
• Quebracho, [2], [144], [154], [158], [206], [277]
• Quevedo, [268]
• Quichúa, [43]
• Quintana, Dr. Manuel, [66]
• Railway enterprise, [215], [216], [217]
• Railway “Imperium in Imperio,” [122]
• Railways, [215], [216]
• Railways, Foreign, [6]
• Railways, Foreign capital invested in, [122]
• Railways (total lengths of lines), [122]
• Railways (gauges in use), [122]
• Railways, The Buenos Aires Western, [122], [184]
• Railways, The Central Argentine, [52], [122], [149]
• Railways, The Buenos Aires Great Southern, [122], [124], [140], [184], [186], [191]
• Railways, The Buenos Aires Pacific, [122], [124], [140], [177], [184], [190], [193]
• Railways, The Central Córdoba, [124]
• Railways, The Entre Rios, [124]
• Railways, The Province of Santa Fé, [123], [124]
• Railways, The Province of Buenos Aires, [124]
• Railways, The N. E. Argentine, [201], [205]
• Railways, The Central Uruguay of Montevideo, [122]
• Railways, Argentine National, [124], [163], [167]
• Railways, An U.S. Syndicate, [124]
• Railways, travelling comforts, [123]
• Ramirez, [79]
• Rawson (town), [194]
• “Reds,” [32], [60], [69], [76]
• Rebenque, [170]
• Recoleta, [89]
• Regulations, [72]
• Retail traders, Nationalities of, [138]
• Revenue, Surplus, [136], [137]
• “Revolución de Arriba,” [67]
• Rice, [218], [219]
• Rio Colorado, [143], [183], [187], [189]
• Rio Cuarto (town), [149]
• Rio Grande do Sul, State of, [35], [213]
• Rio Negro (Argentina), [183], [187], [189], [190]
• Rio Negro (Uruguay), [213]
• Rio Negro (Territory), [63], [188], [189], [190], [191], [192], [193]
• Rio Negro (Territory), Chief products of, [191], [192]
• Rio Negro (Department), [63]
• River Plate Spanish (language), [42], [43], [44]
• Rivera (Department), [63]
• Rocha (Department), [63], [214]
• Rosario (de la Frontera), [174]
• Rosario (de Santa Fé), [145]
• Rozas, Juan Manuel de, [30], [31], [38], [152], [261], [301]
• Rural banks, [28]
• Rural Society (Argentine), [251], [262]
• Saenz Peña, Dr., [34], [36], [64], [67], [68], [76]
• Saladillo, River, [158]
• Salta, Province of, [63], [169], [170], [172], [173], [174]
• Salta, City of, [174]
• Salto (Department), [63]
• San Antonio, Bay, [190], [191]
• San Blas, [191], [192]
• San Ignacio, [202], [203]
• San Jorge (gulf), [193]
• San José (Department), [63], [214]
• San Juan, Province of, [63], [178], [179], [180], [181], [182]
• San Juan (Province), Former finances of, [178], [179]
• San Juan, City of, [182]
• San Luis, Province of, [63], [156]
• San Luis (Province), Chief products of, [157], [158]
• San Martin, General, [156]
• San Martin, Zorrilla de, [299]
• San Matias (gulf), [190]
• San Rafael, [175]
• Sandhills, Shifting, [248]
• Santa Cruz (Territory), [63], [195], [196], [197]
• Santa Cruz (Territory), Chief products of, [197]
• Santa Fé, Province of, [63], [144]
• Santa Fé (Province), Chief products of, [144]
• Santa Fé, City of, [144], [145]
• Santa Marina, Señor, [81]
• Santa Rosa de Toay, [184]
• Santiago del Estero, Province of, [63], [158], [159], [160]
• Santiago del Estero (Province), Chief products of, [158]
• Sarmiento, President, [31], [152]
• Securities, [28]
• Securities (investment), [116]
• Senate, Senators, [63], [65], [67]
• Servants, [56]
• Settlers, [9], [185]
• Sierra de la Ventana, [143]
• Silesian Brothers, [199]
• Silver, [164], [166], [179], [214]
• Single-tax, [28]
• Smuggling, overland, [209]
• Socialism, [28], [70]
• Society, Argentine, [4]
• Soil, The nature of, [246], [247], [248]
• Spain, [29], [30]
• Spanish blood, [40], [46]
• Spanish-speaking commercial travellers, [107]
• Speculative shares, [113], [118]
• Squadron of Security, [14]
• Soler Theatre, [79]
• “Soriano” (Department), [63], [212], [214]
• “Standard,” The Buenos Aires, [191]
• Statistics, Foreign trade, [127], [128], [129], [130], [131], [132], [133]
• Statistics, Uruguayan, Deficiencies of, [132]
• Stock Exchange, Buenos Aires, [113], [114]
• Storekeeper, [8]
• Sugar, [16], [160], [161], [162], [167], [218]
• Sugar-beet, [236]
• Sulphur, [179]
• “Sun of May,” [168]
• “Swallows” (Golondrinas), [9]
• Sweet Sorghum, [236]
• Swiss colony, [27]
• Tandíl, [82], [143], [144]
• Tarquin (bull), [261]
• Tea, [236]
• Tellier, Charles, [251], [269]
• Terrasson, Eugenio, [251]
• Theatre, [58]
• “The Land we Live on,” [229]
• Tierra del Fuego, [63], [194], [195], [197], [198], [199], [200]
• Tigre River, [87], [89], [143]
• Timber, [16], [187], [202], [209], [277], [298]
• Tin, [164], [166]
• Tobacco, [16], [181], [218], [219], [220]
• Tornquist, Mr. C. A., [19], [21-26]
• Tosca, [247], [248]
• Tramways, Buenos Aires, [84]
• Tramways, Montevideo, [71], [85]
• Transandine Railway, [175], [177]
• Traps for the unwary, [9]
• Treinta y Tres (Department), [63]
• Tres Arroyos, [142]
• Tronador (mountain), [187]
• Tucuarembo (Department), [63], [212]
• Tucumán, Province of, [63], [160], [161], [162], [163]
• Tucumán (Province), Chief products of, [160]
• United States, [44], [105]
• United States, trade methods, [105], [106]
• Urquíza, General, [151], [152]
• Uruguay, [212], [213], [214]
• Uruguay, River, [123], [155], [156]
• Ushuaia, [199]
• Vanilla, [236]
• Varela, Juan Cruz, [299]
• Viceroys, Viceregal, [29]
• Victoria Island, [187]
• Vicuna, [173]
• Viedma, [192]
• Viera, Dr., [18]
• Villa Constitución, [145]
• Villanueva, Señor Benito, [143]
• Voting, Obligatory, [36]
• Walle, Paul, [159], [197]
• War, The, [18], [28]
• Welsh colony, [27], [194], [195]
• Wheat (chief areas of production), [223], [224]
• Wheat (export), [135], [242], [246]
• Wheat and lucerne, Alternation of, [254], [255]
• White, Mr., [261]
• “Whites,” [32], [60], [69], [76]
• Windmills, Water-drawing, [142], [225], [260]
• Wine, [157], [165], [174], [175], [177], [180]
• Wit, Native, [13]
• Wolfram, [157]
• Women, [55], [57]
• Wool exports, [136], [260], [267]
• Yankee, [48], [106]
• Zárate, [151], [254]
• Zeballos, Dr., [263]
• Zinc, [179]

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Transcriber’s Note

List of changes made to the text to correct suspected printing errors:

[Page 5] “Is there a good bargain to be made” changed to “If there is a good bargain to be made”

[Page 17] “the latter is still” changed to “the former is still”

[Page 43] “certain Argentine amateur philogists” changed to “certain Argentine amateur philologists”

[Page 65] “would proceed to rat shamelessly” changed to “would proceed to rant shamelessly”

[Page 79] “take convenient tram” changed to “take a convenient tram”