The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of EnterpriseFraser, John Foster
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The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise
Fraser, John Foster
Argentina -- Description and travel
SHEEP, development of local characteristics in, 94;
introduction of, 117;
increase of, 123; precautions against disease in, 130;
for freezing works, 130;
on the _pampas_, 232
SHEEP-BREEDING, decline of, 67
SHEEP market in Buenos Aires, 130
SHEEP-REARING, drawbacks and possibilities of, 182-3
SHOE factories, 84
SIERRA de Cordoba, 158
SIESTA, abandonment of, 40
SMALL-HOLDING, difficult of securing, 225
SOCIALISTS, cohesion of, 75
SOUTH America, possibilities of, 4
SPAIN, and Argentina, 98-9, 116;
and frozen meat, 133
SPANIARDS, and early colonisation of Argentina, 94, 116
SPANISH, necessity for use of in commerce, 87, 110-12;
firm hold of, 271
"SPECIAL Cars" on railways, 135, 166-7, 213
SPORTS, Argentine's adoption of, 271
STEVENS, Mr., and Puerta Galvan, 179
STOREKEEPER, as "middleman," 55
STRANGERS' Club, Rosario, 157
STUCCO, use of, in "B.A.," 30, 36
"SUESTADAS," the, 91
SUGAR industry, school for instruction in, 58-9
SUGAR growing, at Tucuman, 250;
possibilities of development of, 253-5, 262
SWITZERLAND and frozen meat, 127, 133
SYDNEY Harbour compared with Rio, 14
TANGO, the, 235
TARIFF on sugar, 255
TARIFFS on manufactured articles, 82-3
TAXATION, methods of, 82-3
TECHNICAL education, attention to, 79
TEXTILE industries, possibilities of, 262
"THE Argentine as a Market," by N. L. Watson, 255
"THE Naturalist in La Plata," by W. H. Hudson, 93
TIGRE, the, boating on, 27
TOBAS Indians, 266
TOTALISATOR, use of, at Palermo, 28
TOWER, Sir Reginald, 98, 278
TRADE, British and German methods of, compared, 85-6
TRADE Unions and Government, 84
TRANSANDINE Railway, 147;
Summit tunnel of, 148
TUCUMAN, 43, 49;
arboricultural school at, 58, 59;
and Central Argentine Railway, 144;
aspect of, 248;
historic house at, 249;
life in, 249-50;
sugar harvest at, 250;
development of sugar industry at, 251-6
TUNUYAN River, 147
UNDERGROUND Railway of Buenos Aires, 27
United Kingdom and Argentine cereals, 67
UNITED States and Argentine development, 7, 22, 64;
and Argentine Railways, 139;
influence in Argentina of, 271, 272, 275;
wheat supply of, 186
UNIVERSITIES, qualifications for and localities of, 78
UNIVERSITY lectures in agriculture, 57
URUGUAY and Argentine cattle, 128
USPALLATA Valley route, 147
VALPARAISO, railway connection between Buenos Aires and, 146-7
VICTORIA Wool Market, Bahia Blanca, 180
VILLA Maria Rufino Railway absorbed by the Buenos Aires and Pacific, 145
VINEYARDS of Mendoza, 199, 206
VITICULTURE, college at Mendoza for, 57-8, 80
"WATCH Bird, The," 92
WATER supply on the pampa, 233
WATER-WHEELS, American, 44
WATSON, Mr. N. L., "The Argentine as a Market," 255
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