The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-09
Copyright, 1915. by Frank CT. Car
penter.)

What the Argentine Buys and Where
She Buys 1.-THE German Trade
Begging for Bidders-Rig Things
Owned by the Rritis.i-Hard Times
Caused by the Wharf.-The Army OF
Unemployed and How it Is Handl-
sd-High Hotel Rate and Travel
ing Expcnscs-The Tariff and
Taxes on Trade.
l want to wake up the capitalists.
manufacturers and business men of
the United States to n enormous
opportunities of the Argentine mar
ket. The war in Europe has thrown
it wide open, and has offered US adj
yantageS that may not come again In
Il century Until now the big things
Of this part of the world " all gone
to Europe. This is so not only as to
the selling of merchandise, but also
as to financial Investments and good
government contracts, 95 per cent or
the public and private loans having
been placed there. Great Britain
alone has more than $1,000, 900 900 In
good dividend paying Argentine rail-
ways and Germany, France n Italy
have large interests in banks and in
dustries of one kind or other. The
foreign trade of Argentine now
amounts to almost 81. 00o, 600, 900 per
annum and she ranks second on our
hemisphere as the best market for
foreign goods. Her purchases abroad
far surpass those Of any other South
American country and her people are
among the best spenders o. the whole
world.
But few OF US have any idea of the
extent, the resources and possibilities
of the Argentine Republic. This is not
a baby country of the DackWOOdS,
and it does not do business in the
small. The land is one-third as large
AZ the United States proper, and acre
for acre it has far more cultivable
territory. 1t has now about 10000
900 acres under crops, and 1t could
give its every family 200 acres Of
grain land and have some to spare.
1t is one of the best grazing
tries on the face Of the globe. 1t has
many men whose possessions far sur
pass those OF Job before the devil at
tackled him; and it has so much stool
that If 1t were divided evenly each
family would own five horses, twenty
COWS and about forty sheep.
In 1895 the live stock was valued at
$3.50, 900. 600. Thirteen years later it
was worth $3.50, 000, 600, and with the
increased demand of the war in Flu
rope 1t is now worth close to one bill
lion dollars. AS far as grain and
meat are cOnCeEIlcu, ATBcIlllIld Id
long been Spoon-feeding John Bull
and within the past year or SO she
has begun to Spoon-feed Uncle Sam.
But these figures give little idea Of
the wealth Of this great republic anC
Its possibilities in our foreign trade
The Argentine stands about tenth
among the countries OF the world il
the average possessions OF its inhabi
A.N. Na-N.l --~ Z = L-. $500
chasing power far greater than tte
Of Norway, Germany or France, ana
ten times that of Turkey or Japan. 1t
per capita wealth is eighty times tina
of the Chinese. The Argentine buy
and sells more goods than any coun
Try on this hemisphere outside tn
United States. Its foreign commerce
Is ahead of that Of China or Japan
and eleventh among all the cOIntrie
IT the world. 1t already amounts t
about a billion dollars per annun
and when good times come again ]
will increase by leaps and bounds
Buenos Aires is now the eighth por
of the world in the amount of i,
business. 1t stands ahead Of Breme-
Calcutta, Bombay, Singapore and Sid
ney. and is surpassed only by Ne'
York, London. Hamburg, Liverpool
Antwerp, MarseilleS and Havre.
From this you will see that tn
country is alive n up to date. l hay
before me some OF the purchase
made in 1913. In that year Argentin
bought foreign goods to the amour
Of over $500, geo, 600. and the bulk {
this money went over to Europe. He1
are a few Of the items:
Let us first take the railroads. tt
capital invested in them amounts
more than $1,000, 600, 900. The pa.
sengers number about 5000. 900 ye;
and the freight carried is close to 40
100000 tons. In 1913 the importation
included 5000 new cars, and 9th,
railway material amounting to mi
lions. At the same time the count
bought 10000 carriages, 5000 aut
mobiles and 5000 bicycles.
/ have referred to the so, 900, o,
acres OF land in cultivation. The in
plements for planting and harvestil
them all come from foreign countris
In 1913 Argentina bought 100