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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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: IV. Uruguay

Collection:: Economics Books

URUGUAY 53 mileage planned will rapidly bring the coun try to the fore. American capital is now be ing interested in this field. While there are some minerals to be found in the mountainous sections, still the country will always be a pastoral one. Mica, gold, precious stones and petroleum are known to exist, yet comparatively little, if anything, has been done along these lines. Of her 45,000,000 acres of land, less than 5 per cent, is devoted to agriculture, owing to lack of population. There are about 1,700,- 000 acres of virgin forest lands and over 40,- 000,000 acres devoted to grazing cattle and sheep. Wheat is the chief cereal grown, with corn, barley, oats and linseed in the order named. Tobacco has been tried with favorable results. The raising of cattle of all kinds and the maintenance of slaughterhouses and packing establishments for the purpose of supply ing Europe with meat forms the largest in dustry. One plant alone at Fray Bentos—

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