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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, de 
voted 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 tan 
ning of leather would under proper manage 
ment 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 manufactur 
ing 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 ar 
rive and depart regularly from the various 
Argentine ports, all the seafaring nations of 
the earth being represented. In 1852, one