The machinery comes from the renowned German manufacture of Chemnitz; it is 25 horse-power, and can give from 18,000 to 20,000 litres per day. The receiving depositories are two, the first one of a capacity of 12,000 litres, and the second of 8,000 litres; the cooling depositories can receive 9,000 litres every hour and a-half, with a temperature that can go to 14° under naught. The clarifying is made by three filters of the most modern system, without any paper application. The fermentation cellar contains three large tubs of a capacity of 3,000 and 3,500 litres. There are also 6 great cellars, for depositories, with 34 tubs each; 18 of them can contain 5,000 litres each and the other 16, 3,500 litres. With a compressed air machine they cork 10,000 bottles a day. The ice depositories are beautiful; they always remain at a temperature of 12 or 20° under nought. The "_Germania_" also has many other depositories for the raw materials, empty bottles and casks, another for 5,000 litre tubs, brought on purpose from Germany; a forge, a workshop for cask-making, ten carts and stables for 30 horses, and many offices. It possesses a quay on the bay for loading and unloading and, during the season of most activity, employs over a hundred workmen and clerks. This establishment represents a capital of over half a million dollars. During the season it sells over 200,000 litres per month to nearly 1,500 or 2,000 establishments. The same society possesses also a starch and an alcohol manufactory. They are very important establishments, provided with the very latest inventions of European and North American manufacture. In the same conditions are also the Richling and Niding Beer Manufactories. Banks, Anonymous Societies. The Republic counts with a great many banks and anonymous societies, that make easier all commercial transactions. The emission banks are: The _London and River Plate Bank_, that on December 31, 1891, had an active capital of $8,911,000; the _Italian Uruguay Bank_, with an active capital of $7,714,521; the _Spain and River Plate Bank_, with $4,614,752; the _Italo-Oriental_, with $10,432,276, and the other banks called _National Bank_, _English and River Plate Bank_, which actually are in liquidation, being the active of the first bank, 31st December, 1890, $61,630,320, and that of the second, $15,298,406. Among the discounting banks, there are the _Commercial Bank_, the _French Bank_, the _South America British Bank_, the _Anglo-Argentine Bank_.