Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: V. Paraguay

Collection:: Economics Books

PARAGUAY 63 crop amounts to about 18,000,000 pounds yearly. Quebracho, a red-colored wood, rich in tannin, is indigenous to the country. It is used for furniture and railroad ties and the extract made from it is employed in tanning leather. In one year, over $4,000,000 of this wood alone was imported to the United States, much of it being used for paving blocks. Thousands of acres of cabinet and other commercial woods are to be found in the for ests, but are without value, owing to their iso lation and lack of means of transportation to get them to the markets. The country has some ore deposits. The principal ones are copper, mercury, man ganese and iron. They cannot be developed on account of their remote location. It therefore follows that the chief indus tries of Paraguay for years to come will be in the production of raw materials and in the raising of cattle for which its well-watered plains are admirably adapted. It has now about 6,000,000 head of cattle and sheep and

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