A New-World Marvel by N. Z. TOWN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

A New-World Marvel

By N. Z. TOWN

THE material progress which Argentina is making is a marvel to the world, and is attracting hundreds of thousands of immigrants to her shores. Over 250,000 people from other lands entered that country during 1908. Argentina has a larger foreign trade than any other nation in proportion to her population. It amounted last year to $600,000,000, or $100 per capita, a net gain of $56,913,025 over 1907. Her total grain crop for 1908 was about 14,000,000 tons.

At present there are 14,738 miles of railways in operation in the country, of which nearly 1,000 miles were added during 1908, representing a capitalization of $788,964,416. The net profits to the companies operating the roads amounted last year to $40,023,000. The number of passengers carried was 48,593,600.

With the exception of a small gap—soon to be made up—over the summit of the Andes, the trip can be made by rail from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile, in forty-eight hours.

Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, has a population of a million and a quarter people, and is growing rapidly. Paris is the only Latin city that outranks her in population. She has the finest system of docks and wharves in the world. She recently spent $40,000,000 in improving them. Her leading daily paper has the finest newspaper office in the world. From the top of the magnificent edifice a winged Mercury seems about to run with the news of the day to every house in the city.

And this “land of opportunity” and of progress is wide open not only for the capitalist and the immigrant, but also for the heralds of the last gospel message. N. Z. TOWN.