44 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
for Argentine ports. The Houston Line 
(British) from Boston and New York and 
the New York and South American Line sail 
monthly from New York for River Plate 
ports. The Munson Line (American) from 
Mobile, Alabama, sends two ships monthly to 
Buenos Aires. There are many tramp ships 
from American ports in this trade also. 
The docks and facilities for handling goods 
in Buenos Aires are second to none in the 
world and are modeled after the famous 
Liverpool system, having cost over $50,000,- 
000. Steamers unload cargoes directly into 
the government custom warehouses, on the 
other side of which are networks of railway 
tracks from which they can be forwarded to 
the interior. Each of the large cement-sided 
canals or basins for the ship traffic is provided 
with locks or water gates, while the masonry 
warehouses, buildings and grain elevators ex 
tend for miles along the city water front. Yet 
the business of the port has grown so that there 
is much congestion, especially at certain sea-