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