Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC _The Commission of the Argentine Republic takes pleasure in offering this volume, descriptive of the growth and position of the Argentine Republic, as a souvenir of the Panama-Pacific-Exposition of 1915._ _HORACIO ANASAGASTI, Commissioner-General._ _San Francisco, May, 1915._ The Argentine Republic [Illustration: colophon] PANAMA-PACIFIC-EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 Copyrighted, 1915, by THE ARGENTINE COMMISSION OF THE PANAMA-PACIFIC-EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 _All Rights Reserved_ Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co. New York ARGENTINE NATIONAL COMMISSION PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 _President_ DR. ANGEL GALLARDO _Vice-Presidents_ MR. AGUSTIN DE ELIA DR. FRANCISCO A. BARROETAVENA _Treasurer_ MR. ELISEO F. CANAVERI _Members_ ENGINEER HORACIO ANASAGASTI DR. ABEL BENGOLEA DR. CUPERTINO DEL CAMPO ARCH. JULIO DORMAL MR. CARLOS GUERRERO MR. GUSTAVO HERTEN MR. JUAN B. MIGNAQUY ENGINEER DOMINGO NOCETI ENGINEER LUIS F. NOUGUES MR. RICARDO PILLADO MR. LUIS E. ZUBERBUHLER _Commissioner-General_ ENGINEER HORACIO ANASAGASTI ARGENTINE COMMISSION AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 _Commissioner-General_ ENGINEER HORACIO ANASAGASTI _Special Delegate of Fine Arts_ DR. CUPERTINO DEL CAMPO _Vice-Commissioner General and Commissioner of Agriculture_ MR. ENRIQUE M. NELSON _Commissioner of Education and Social Economy_ MR. ERNESTO NELSON Delegate from the Ministry of Justice and Public Instruction _Secretary General and Live-Stock Commissioner_ MR. LUIS VERNET BASAULDO _Executive Secretary_ MR. ALBERTO M. D'ALKAINE _Commissioner of Liberal Arts and Transportation_ ENGINEER SALVADOR POSITANO _Commissioner of Varied Industries and Food Products_ ENGINEER EUSEBIO GARCIA _Commissioner in Charge of the Information Bureau_ DR. GUILLERMO KOCH _Sub-Commissioner of Fine Arts_ MR. JUAN CARLOS OLIVA NAVARRO _Sub-Commissioner of Agriculture_ MR. H. M. CURREN _Honorary Assistant_ MR. ALFREDO J. DECK _Assistants_ MR. HERMAN BUCHER MR. ENRIQUE HAYMES MR. ARTURO FAUZON MR. GUILLERMO L. AGUIRRE MR. LUIS FRUGONI INTRODUCTION In order to add clearness to the brief description of the Argentine Republic presented in this little work, it has been thought desirable to depart from the traditional method of submitting a mass of statistical and historic matter and, instead, to furnish a rapid, though comprehensive, survey of the main features of interest, such as will at once convey to the reader the actual situation and potentialities of the "Land of the Silver River."