THE MORTGAGE BANK AND ITS ACTIVITY 



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Mortgage Loans in 1915-1916. 



This table shows that while the bank was not niggardly in the matter 

 of granting loans it made them only on the largest and on the safest secu- 

 rity possible. 



It should be noted that during 1914-1915 the total sum of the loans 

 granted surpassed 100,000 pesos only in seven departments, whereas in 

 the year which ended in 1916 it did so in ten departments. In the two 

 years the total sum of the loans reached its maximum in the departments 

 of , Paysandii . and Rio Negro. 



