ARGENTINE

4i

rope  or  to  the  States  and  the  tanning  extracts
expressed,  but  to-day  there  are  many  factories
in  the  districts  where  the  wood  is  grown,  devoted ­
  to  obtaining  the  tannin  directly,  thereby
materially  reducing  the  cost  of  the  article.
Inasmuch  as  hides  and  quebracho  are  products
of  the  Argentine  it  would  seem  that  the  tanning ­
  of  leather  would  under  proper  management ­
  develop  into  a  large  industry  here.
The  export  of  tannin  for  1914  was  over  $11,-000,000.

Outside  of  the  industries  referred  to  and  a
few  breweries,  cigar  factories,  and  apparel
factories,  wherein  goods  for  local  consumption
are  produced,  there  is  no  general  manufacturing ­
  in  the  Argentine.
No  other  country  of  Latin  America  is  as
well  provided  with  railways  as  the  Argentine,
nor  with  as  regular  and  superior  access  to
Europe  and  the  States  and  all  parts  of  the
world.  More  than  fifty  steamship  lines  arrive ­
  and  depart  regularly  from  the  various
Argentine  ports,  all  the  seafaring  nations  of
the  earth  being  represented.  In  1852,  one