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the supply of tobacco and oranges ; with Misiones in 

 the supply of yerba mate. Each district chose the 

 particular crop which was best suited to its climate, 

 in order to secure the highest possible advantage 

 from its relations with Buenos Aires. 



The two most brilliant satellites of the Pampa, the 

 most important productive centres of the interior, 

 are Tucuman and Mendoza. All the other important 

 towns of Argentina belong themselves to the region 

 of the Pampas. Tucuman and Mendoza, which live 

 by supplying the Pampa with sugar and wine, have 

 become in turn secondary centres of attraction. They 

 axe a sort of regional capitals, and they have their 

 own spheres of economic influence. A network of 

 commercial streams has developed about them, and 

 this has led to the formation of new roads. These 

 lines of local interest are easily recognized on a map 

 of the railways, where one sees them superimposed 

 upon the regular fan of lines which converges toward 

 Buenos Aires. La Rioja provides the props for the 

 vines of San Juan and Mendoza. From the north of 

 Cordoba to Salta, a distance of about 250 miles, the wood 

 is cut for the fuel of the sugar-works of Tucuman. 

 Santiago dries the fodder for its troops of mules. The 

 prairies of Catamarca, which once fattened the cattle 

 that were intended for Chile, and often came even from 

 Tucuman, now sell their beasts to the butchers of 

 Tucuman. The wines of San Juan find their best 

 customers at Tucuman. Even the nearest portions 

 of the plain of the Pampas, to the north-east of Santa 

 Fe and the south of San Luis, supply maize and wheat 

 to Tucuman and Mendoza, instead of sending them to 

 the ports for export. 



While Argentina lives on the Pampa, the Pampa 

 lives on export. It has been developed through the 

 inflow of European immigrants, and Europe pays by 

 sending its manufactured products and capital. 

 Except as regards emigration, the United States had, 



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