capital and receipts of,152;Mr. Percy Clarke and,152;at Bahia Blanca,178;Port of Engineer White,178Guanaco, The,245Hirsch, Baron, colonisation scheme of,237Horsebreeding, excellence of,65-6;development of,123Horse, first introduction of,119;increase of,119,122Horse-racing, at Palermo,28;universality of,107,122;at Alta Gracia,172-4;the Gaucho and,228-9Hudson, W. H., "The Naturalist in La Plata,"93Hurlingham, "B.A.,"27Ibera, Lake,267Immigrants, Italians as,10,25,53,224;nationalities of,63;typical English,109-10;and political agitation,241Immigration, inducements for,53;organisation of,203,223Inca,43Indians, of Chaco district,91;and horse and cattle stealing,98;of Corrientes,266Industrialschool, methods at,80Irrigation, Government work in,60;results of,116;State and railway works for,144,150;in Mendoza,208-9;in sugar district,253Italians, as immigrants,10,25,53;preponderance of,224Italyand frozen meat,127,133Iraola, Señor Pereyra, and champion bull,152Jerkedbeef, trade in,128JesuMaria, sanatorium of,160JewishColonisation Society, the,237,238Jews, and wheat market,23,55;population of,236;agricultural colonies of,237-40JockeyClub of Buenos Aires,28,123Juande Rivadaneira, Fray, and introduction of horses,120Kindergartenat Mendoza,205Labour, conditions of,54;scarcity of, onestancias,243,252;influence of scarcity of, on industrial development,257Labourquestion at Rosario,154-5Labourtroubles, frequency of,84;in Buenos Aires,258Land, profits on sale of,47,53,64-5;ownership and labour on,52et seq.;conditions of ownership in,188-9Landvalues,65;at Rosario,157;at Bahia Blanca,177;in Mendoza,204La Plata,19;description of,36-8;slaughter-houses at70;university at,78;and frozen meat trade,124"La Prensa," offices of,41Las Damasda Beneficencia,34LatinAmerican, Spanish immigrants to,2;range of,3;possibilities of,4;riches of,5Latinimmigrants at Rosario,154;as farmers,193Latinraces, as emigrants,3,9,25,53;as seen in South America,24,59Leprosyin South America,246Licencesfor business,82LiebigCo., and meat extract trade,129,269;cattle-breeding station of,268Liniers, slaughter-houses at,129Linseed, Argentina's production of,191Livestock, value of exportations of,60,67;and importation embargo in Britain,131Llama, the,116Lloyd George, Mr., and Argentina,24Locusts, depredations of,61,70,233;and sugar districts,254Londonand River Plate Bank, gold reserve of,263London, chilled and frozen meat and,126Lumbertracks of Posados,243Mackie, Mr., on Pan-American railway scheme,277Maize, Argentina's production of,191Manufactures, inability to develop,83Manufacturingresources, possible development of,257et seq.Mar del Plata,53;life at,235;Great Southern Railway and,151Mares, distaste for, and slaughter of,119Martinetta, the,245MatacosIndians,266Meatextracts, trade in,129Meattrade and U.S.A.,23,68Mendoza, Viticulture College at,57,58,80;the railway and,147;situation and population of,199;life in,200-1;earthquakes in,201;Western Park at,2022;schools in,205;English club in,212MendozaProvince, paper money of,76;Government of,203;how strikes are dealt with in,203;taxation and land in,204;vineyards of,206;irrigation in,208;fruit growing in,211MendozaRiver,147,208,214,217,222Mercedes,146Mexicoand cattle,4Militaryservice, compulsory system of,81Millionaires, proportion to population of,64Mocayr, Señor Pedro, and U.S.A. influence,275Money-lenders, licences for,82MonroeDoctrine and Argentina,272,273,274,275MonteVideo,19;the River Plate at,90;and jerked beef trade,128Mutton, value of exportations of,67;prejudice against,98NationalBank of Argentina, gold reserve of,266Nationalflag,64NationalMinistry of Education,78NationalRailway Board, influence of,49,50NationalSchool of Commerce,79NationalSchool of Pilots,80Nationalisation, Law of,24,63,77Neuquénterritory, irrigation works in,150"Norther," The,103NougesBros., sugar mills of,252Observatoryat Cordoba,165Ogilvie, Mr. C. P., on alfalfa,194-7Oilfor fuel,83,243Page, Mr., and financial control of South American Republics,274"Palaceof Gold, The," 3737Palermo, fashionable life in,27;races at,28Pampa, dreariness of the,89;extent and possibilities of,181-2Pamperos, the,91ParanaRiver,90;wharves on, at Rosario,154;lumber on,243highway of Santa Fé,265-6Parana, town of,268ParqueIndependencia, at Rosario,156Patagonia, wilderness of,89;as sheep-rearing country,183;stature of natives of,245-6;pastures of,246Pearson, Mr. C. H., and Central Argentine Railway,141,142,143PellegriniLaw, the, and gold reserve,263Pernambuco,2,10Peru, rubber in,4Peso, the,236Petroleumzone, Government reservation on,243Pilots, National School of,80Plate, River,19;volume of,90;reclamation of land from,146;silting of,155,176PlazaJewell, Rosario,156PlazaMayo, "B.A.,"26,27PlazaSan Lopez, Rosario,156PlazaSan Martin, Rosario,156Population, call for,53;growth of,63Posados, lumber trade of,243PortMadryn, Welsh colony at,225Portugaland frozen meat,127Poverty, non-existence of,35President, qualifications and powers of,72-3Property, State regulations on disposal of,76ProvincialCouncil of Education,79ProvincialGovernments, powers of,75;relations of, with Central Government,76Puertadel Inca,219PuertaGalvan,179Quebracho, the,92Railways, luxuriance of trains on,36,44,134-5;influence on prosperity of,43;British capital in,43,134;mileage of,45;State lines,45;limitations of dividends of,45;landowners and,47;government and direction of,48;profits of, for roadmaking,49;and mail carrying,49;equipment of,49;causes of profits of,134;"special cars" on,135,166-7, 213213;carriage of agricultural produce,137;growth of,138;William Wheelwright as founder of,138;United States and,139;Thomas Brassey and,139;dividends and prospects of,139;growth of the Central Argentine,141-5;growth and prospects of the Buenos Aires and Pacific,140,145-150;growth and prospects of Great Southern Line,150-2;"Farquhar Group,"152;amalgamation of,153;at Bahia Blanca,178;Transandine,213;influence on possible manufacturing developments,260;and development of Santa Fé,265;American scheme in connection with,277Ranch, life on the,103-8,230-1Recoleta,36"RegionalSchools,"6Religion, indifference to,29-30,77RetiroStation, Buenos Aires,142,143Revolutionof 1810,64,99;memorials of, at Tucuman,249Rideal, Prof., on frozen meat,126RioBlanco,217RioCuarto, and Central Argentine Railway,144Riode Janeiro, Harbour of,13;the city,16RioNegro Valley, irrigation work in,150RioNeuquén Valley, irrigation works in,150Roadmaking, railway profits taxed for,49Roads, bad condition of,48,106,170,226Rosario, land values in,64,157;grain elevators at,70;"The Liverpool of Argentina,"141;railway works at,143,156;as business centre,154;labour question at,154-5;growth of,155;life at,156-7Rosario-CordobaRailway,141;concession of land for,46RoyalMail Company,53Russiaand wheat supply,186Sandstorms,103;at Bahia Blanca,177SanJuan, fruit culture school at,60;School of Mines at,80;progress of,204SanLuis,147SanMartin, statues of,37,160-1SanPablo, sugar mills at,252SanRafael, progress of,205SanSalvador,1SantaCatalina, agrarian and veterinary school at,80SantaCruz, dreariness of,246SantaFé Province, cattle raising in,130;development of,265Santos,17,18SavoyHotel, Tucuman,250Scholarships, at Agricultural Schools,58;for European study,81Schoolof Mines, San Juan,80Schools, religious instruction in,77;primary, for adults,77;secondary,78;equipment of,79;attendance at,79,81;technical and commercial,79;physical drill in,80;in Mendoza,205Senate, the, constitution of,73Senator, qualifications of,73;salary of,74Servantproblem,108Sheep, development of local characteristics in,94;introduction of,117;increase of,123;precautions against disease in,130;for freezing works,130;on thepampas,232Sheep-breeding, decline of,67Sheepmarket in Buenos Aires,130Sheep-rearing, drawbacks and possibilities of,182-3Shoefactories,84Sierrade Cordoba,158Siesta, abandonment of,40Small-holding, difficult of securing,225Socialists, cohesion of,75SouthAmerica, possibilities of,4Spain, and Argentina,98-9,116;and frozen meat,133Spaniards, and early colonisation of Argentina,94,116Spanish, necessity for use of in commerce,87,110-12;firm hold of,271"SpecialCars" on railways,135,166-7,213Sports, Argentine's adoption of,271Stevens, Mr., and Puerta Galvan,179Storekeeper, as "middleman,"55Strangers'Club, Rosario,157Stucco, use of, in "B.A.,"30,36"Suestadas," the,91Sugarindustry, school for instruction in,58-9Sugargrowing, at Tucuman,250;possibilities of development of,253-5,262Switzerlandand frozen meat,127,