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institution has been so well managed that the people 

 would rather place their money in its hands than in the 

 banks, and they also do a considerable banking business, 

 pay two per cent, on current accounts, four per cent, on 

 accounts requiring three months notice for withdrawal, and 

 six per cent, when deposits are made for a year or more. 



The effect on other business has been to set a standard, 

 which the Spanish firms have adopted as far as it is possible 

 for them to do so by nature, and when in the same towns 

 with the Cooperative, they have marked prices, give re- 

 ceipts, etc. They have also organized a Cooperativa Chica 

 on the same lines. Besides these there are several impor- 

 tant trading corporations, especially the Sociadad anonima; 

 the word anonima being equivalent to incorporated (and 

 very common in firm names), though it means without a 

 name, the absence of the names of the men behind a corpo- 

 ration being in the beginning apparently the most strik- 

 ing feature of their organization. It was with the Welsh 

 cooperative store that we did most of our trading. 



In Trelew I had an introduction to Mr. Howell Jones, 

 old timer, railroad agent, and cordial host. He found 

 hotel space for us, a place for meals, and next morning 

 introduced me at the bank and to the leading business 

 men of the place. I had to be introduced at the bank 

 before they would accept my money on deposit. They 

 took it and gave me a receipt, also a statement signed by 

 the President stating that the signature below was mine, 

 and that I had 2,000 pesos deposited there. All this did 

 not help me at all to draw it out later in Comodoro Riva- 

 davia, though they said that it would. 



The next five days were spent in going among the Welsh 

 farmers looking for horses. We also tried to get mules, 

 but were not successful in this. On Sunday after borrowing 

 articles of clothing from any one in the party who had 

 better than I, accompanied by an American — Mr. Crockett 

 — I drove over to Rawson fifteen miles away, the capital 



