The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-12
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hosiile ant arnl.ho~tll. units into com.
paralIye harmony This year ism may h.
saii tu mark thu beginning N Afgentina'a
real hfe ~ . hstion. Hosa vac stictcesird
by celmsh tsssAaB whu=s administration
proved dleietfoua N illuminated IN fevo-
hutton and prrcipi,ated Tho financial crash
~ igi From that soFely disoriefcd perlod
until the present tins Argentina has sought
10 pull herpelf together. Her success has
been lttIe short u marvellous and her
futurs nov seems assured.
Thus far abs has Developed almost entirely
40 an agricultural and pastoral country.
There may be and probably IL q consider
abba mineral wealth In the hilla and TOT
tains along her Western border, but its
exploitation must walt on the extension Of
transportation facilities. There are many
legends Of the gold and silver taken by the
original inhabitants, and the openings made
by thoae people may still he seen In many
places: but the spaniards did not find 10
q golden land, and their successors have
found more wealth on the pampas than
they have IN the hills. There IL strong
probability, however, that the cordilleras
which extend from the Bolivian border
1000 miles southwark to the Straits Of
Magellan will some day become more or
less Of q mining region.
The area OF Argentina closely approx
mates that Of the United States east OF the
longitude Of Omaha. Its population is
now a little more than 5000. 600. II Is easily
capable OF supporting 10000 900. The day
may come when, by the use OF canals or
by the long distance transmission Of cleo
trical energy, local factories will supply
some OF the manufactured goods required
In the local market, and ii is even quite
possible that a day will come when Ar
gentina will export cotton cloth woven
from home grown staple; when she will
make boots and shoes for the foreign trade
from leather locally supplied, and when
she will ship her wool as a finished fabric
instead of as a raw material. That time
Is 80 far away. however, that 1t may be
omitted from consideration. Meanwhile
Argentina is a shipper OF agricultural and
animal products and a buyer Of manufact-
ured goods.
From the long chain Of the Andes on the
west the and falls from lower to lower ele-
walton until it drops into a level plain
nearly 500 miles in average width from
east to west and some 1000 miles in length
from north to south. Little Of this il
wooded except in the northern part and
there are few hills to break the broad ex-
panse. Here Argentina grows her wheat
and pastures her cattle and her sheep.
Millions of sheep now Craze In hat far
southern land, which only a few years ago
was supposed to be worthless except as q
hunting ground for the nomadic barbarians
who inhabited 1t. Not all of 1t Is even yet
redeemed, but Patagonia has an area OF
soO, 600 square miles, which constitutes an
asset Of almost i~ncalculable value to Ar
gentina.
Nearly one-ffth Of the population lives
In Buenos Ayres, q place which stands
fourth, in point Of population, in the list
Of the cities Of the Western Hemisphere
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Buenos
Ayres. This Is not merely a massing to-
gether Of a huge number Of people living
orudely like the people Of some central
African village. Were Buenos Ayres here
in this country we should boast proudly
OF its splendid buildings, Its magnificent
avenues and It's beautiful parks. 1t Ia the
rival OF the best in the Western Hemisphere
and the superior OF most. Its Avenida de
Mayo has few rivals even In the United
States. We have many buildings which
are larger than any in that far southern
city, but she crowds us hard II she does
not actually surpass us in point OF symmetry
and architectural design.
In spite Of the limitations imposed upon
Argentina's commerce by various re-
strictive forces, she had developed a fair
trade when, under President Roca, she
assumed a new place in the world. Her
exports for that year Qsso) are given as Of
a value of SIS, $50, 900, and her imports as
s45, 500, 900, Her import trade was heavily
hit by the financial disaster Of lssi-s2, but
it has since shown steady recovery and
rapid increase, and with the exception OF
1898 her exports have kept ahead of her
imports. Last year dso5) her commercial
statistics showed: exports, 1922 ,s4s ,s4l, and
imports, s2O5, l54, 400. This is a long leap
in only a quarter of a century.
American trade with Argentina is not at
all a new institution. The official trade
record goes back to 1925. when we sold her
$50, 500 worth Of goods and bought from
her s475 1896 worth. By 1900 these figures
had climbed to: exports, 81 500 900, and
imports, ss,oOO,OO Five years later Qso5)
they reached: exports, s2S ,5e4 ,o56, and i'm
ports, SIS. s1e 1902. While our sales have
increased both in volume and in percentage
of her total purchases, it is not to our credit
that we have only a little more than 10 per
oant ~ krpentina's busineRs. Our MIR