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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:22:06 +0100

>From Alan Longbottom at Pudsey.
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Subject: Rosario 1864


>
> From PP 1866 Vol LXIX Accounts and Papers
> Commercial Reports 1865.
>
> Commercial Reports received at the Foreign Office from
> Her Majesty's Consuls during the year 1865 pp 1-609 or 401-1007
> Including
> Argentine Republic Rosario pp 601-603 or 203-205
> Report by Mr Consul Hutchinson on the Trade of Rosario for 1864.
> Abridged - The foreign shipping entering the port lats year was
> 29 with cargoes and 4 in ballast.
> Of the 29 ships with cargoes, 17 were consigned to Mr Wheelwright
> Impressario of the Centro-Argentine Railway Company. 12 of these
> brought 4,025 tons of rails, and 5 carried 1,888 tons of sleepers.
> To the railway came also 5 vessels from Buenos Ayres with timber
> and machinery. The steamship `Iron King' of London to be used
> as a tug boat from Buenos Ayres for the ships having railway
> cargo, has also been added to our fleet in the last year.
> Amongst the ships coming to Rosario in 1864, 21 were British.
> In the previous year, no British vessel was at this place, save
for
> the steam-ship `Esmeralda' and the steam-ship `Espigador' both
> permanently plying between this and other parts of the river.
> In the month of November 53 bulock-carts were sent to the city and
> province of Buenos Ayres for hire or sale, and in December 80 were
> forwarded on a like speculation. These carts are fabricated in the
> Provinces of Tucuman and Santiago del Estero, and are sent to
> Rosario with or without cargo from the place of their
construction,
> on the chance of a freight, when this does not turn up, they are
> despatched empty on the venture of being marketable.
> Besides the 2 water and 1 stean flour-mill mentioned in my last
> report, I find that in the neighbourhood of Rosario, there are
> from 10 to 12 country-fashioned flour mills called `ateounas' that
> are worked by the rotatory labour of mules.
> The North-American system of beef-curing has been begun at Rosario
> under the direction of an American officer Col Morris. The cattle
> of the Pampas are to be purchased at a very cheap rate, and those
> in the Cordova division are reputed to be of a superior quality
> of beef. Each of these animals can supply an average of 600 lb of
> meat, and this is sufficient for 3 casks of 200 lbs each.
> It can be sold here for 5 patacoons per cask; and calculating the
> patacoon at its most usual exchange of 50d we can thus have the
> salted beef here at 1.25d per lb.
> By the Customs Law of 1865 the Executive Power is authorised to
> permit the free introduction of seeds intended for agriculture;
> of machinery for analysation and alloying of metals; or for the
> manufacture of new fabrica and industries; of furniture and
> working tools of immigrants, as of all other articles destined for
> the establishments of these last-named.
> Amongst the interior provinces attention is being paid to the
> encouragement of industrial pursuits, as of of cultivation and
> manufacture of indigo in Tucuman and Santiago del Estero and of
> the quillay or soap-tree in Rioja; of petroleum wells in Jujuy
> of oil made from fish in Santa Fe, of the exploration of old
> as well as newly discovered mines in Mendoza, San Juan &
Catamarca.
> A report of the discovery of extensive mines of gold at a place
> called Castano in San Juan, created some excitement here in the
> middle of last year, but the reputed discovery has not yet been
> realized into anything practical
> Dated Rosario - April 20th 1865
>
>

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