Banks, Employment in, 22 Belgium, Trade with, 27 Boer colony, 24 Bogus companies, 4 Bolivia, Trade with, 27 British houses, Decrease in the number of, 37 Breweries, 13 Buenos Aires, 1, 10, 33 Congestion of port of, 9 Province of, 4 Business Houses, Employment in, 22 Brazil, Trade with, 27, 28 British and Northern immigrants: their wants not studied, 31 British exporters, Slackness of, 32 C Canals, 4 Capital, Influx of foreign, 33 Cereals, growth of, 2 Chaco district, 12 Chaco, The, 3 Chicken farming, 24 Chili, Trade with, 27 China, Trade with, 28 Chubut, Welsh colony in, 24 'Colonists,' 2 Concentration of Trade in Buenos Aires, 1 Congress, Tone of, 7 Consular reports, Moreno, Dr. Francisco on, 25, 26 Córdoba, Province of, 3 Corrientes, 3 Cotton goods, Italian importation of, 36 Cotton growing, 3 Credit, exaggerated, 38 Credit, Soundness of National, 18 Cultivated area in Argentina, Amount of, 56 Cutlery, English loss of market for, 37 D Drainage system, 4 E 'Empresas,' The, 6 Englishmen, Prospects for, 20, 21, 22 Entre Rios, 3 Estancias, 2, 3 Estancias, employment on, 21 Estancieros, 2 Exports, Value of, 54, 55 F Flour mills, 12 Foreign capital, Important part played by, 16 Foreign influences, Jealousy of, 7 France, Trade with, 27, 28 Fruit cultivation, 3 Fuel, Scarcity of, 42, 43 G Gaucho, The, 12 Gauchos, 2 Gauges, Diversity of, on Argentine railways, 10 German houses, Increase in the number of, 37 Germany, Trade with, 27 Gold in the Argentine, Scarcity of, 4 Government management, character of, 7 Government, want of stability of, 17 H Hard-woods, growth of, 3, 42, 44 Havana, Trade with, 28 Holland, Trade with, 27 Housing-accommodation, 14 I Immediate delivery, Expectation of, 39 Immigrants, Attempts to attract, 20 Immigrants, Nationalities of, 28 Immigration of agriculturalists with capital needed, 2 Immigration, Preponderance of Latin races, 31 Importation, Tendency in the direction of increased, 12 Imports, Value of, 53 Inadequacy of rolling stock, 9 Interests, Rates of, 6 Inundations of the Argentine, 4 Italian immigrants, attempts to attract, 20 Prospects for, 23 Their employment in industries, 12, 13 Italy, Trade with, 27 J Jobbery, Political, its necessity for success of any enterprise, 41, 42 L Literature, Scarcity of, on the Argentine, 24 La Plata, 33 Loans, Argentine, easily raised, 18 Their distribution, 19 Their size, 19 Locusts, 3 M Mar del Plata, 10 Matches, Manufacture of, a monopoly, 13, 15 Monopolies, Railway, Effect of, 8, 9 Morality, Public, low standard of, 16 Municipal loans, a speculative investment, 18 N Non-partisans unmolested, 17 P Paraná, 33 Paraguay, Trade with, 27 Paraná, River, 4