REMARKABLE GROWTH OF AHGENTINA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 99, 16 June 1911, Page 2

REMARKABLE GROWTH OF AH GENTINA.

On tao occasion of ilia 27th annual j gen .u al meeting of shareholders in Liie N.Z. and River Plate .Land Aloitgago Company, come very interesting lads about i lie progress of ll;o Argentina were given oy the chairman ~in llio course of ids roeech. He said j '‘The progress that, liar; been made in the -Argentine is a rema: Pablo phenomenon, and I nave bare some very interesting lignins which will illustiale it. Twenty years ago the area of-land under cultivation in the Argentine Ropubnie was about six million acres; now it is over 10 million acres; and I may remind yon that this is only about ton million acres less than lac total area of (treat Britain. The total mileage of the Argentine railways in 1,890 was 5800 miles, and in 1009 it was about 15,800 , miles, an increase of 10,000 miles. In 1890 the railway mileage of the United Kingdom v.as about 20,080, and I believe now it is about 23,280, an increase, of, say, 3000 miles. Tho total export,of wheat form the Argentine in 1891 was about 395,000 tons; in 1909 it was 2,511,000, or over six times as much. In fact, tho 1908-9 wheat, crop export from Argentina was greater than that from the United States or Russia, and more than from Canada and Australasia combined. Tho export of maize has risen horn about 00,000 tons in 1891 to over 2.273.000 tons in 1909, or more than* 34 times what it was, and 1 lie expor t of the 1908-9 maize crop was greater than the export from all the rest of the world put together. The export of. linseed lias grown from about 12.000 tons in 1891. to over 887,000 tons in 1909, and in this staple Argentina exported more than twice as much as the rest of the world for the 1908-9 erdpp 1 think you will agree uita hie that these are very .striking figures, and that nobody who considers them carefully and’ reads attentively the very able'speeches of some of the chairmen of the groat railway linos in the Argentine cun fail to be most profoundly impressed both with what lias boon done heretofore, and with what may ho done hereafter.