Notes regarding other industries and railways not treated elsewhere.

The purpose of this section is to broaden the context of Argentine railway history documenting the varied interests of railway directors in other aspects of the Argentine economy.
Includes directors' reports, reports of proceedings at shareholder meetings, operating data, financial data, shareholder lists, liquidation statements, stock exchange quotations, maps, graphic illustrations, etc.
Comprises official notices in the Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina and London Gazette, reports and news that appeared in the London Stock Exchange Year-Book, Money Market Review, Herapath's Railway Journal, The Railway Times, The South American Journal, The Economist, The Statist, l'Économiste français and The Review of the River Plate, concerning numerous companies including firms nearly forgotten because they failed early, were aborted or soon liquidated.

Available files are about:

Railways • Tramways • Navigation • Banks • Land & Real Estate • Water, Gas, Electricity & Telephone • Industrial & Commercial • Mining • Road Transport

Railways:

General topics:

Farewell Banquet to Mr Drabble, 1872.
Banquet in honour of General Roca, 9 July 1887.
Banquet in celebration of the Centenary of Argentine Independence.
Banquet to welcome first Argentine Ambassador to the UK, 1928.
A Who's Who of the Anglo-Argentine circle in London
Railway Guarantees
An account from first to last guarantees suggesting that while guarantees served to attract capital into new railways, they operated in ways that discouraged the development of those same railways. Includes the texts of all guarantee rescission contracts.
Meeting in London, 1884.
National Railways Board.
Foreign Railways Investment Trust.
Liability of directors.
Rothschild Committee.
Tariffs.
Roller bearings, 1897.
Steel rails.
Electric Lighting of Trains, 1884.
Elevators and bagging of grain.
The Argentine Club of London,1911.
South American Club of London, 1873.
Yellow Fever Epidemic Relief Committee, 1871.
Rights of women, 1880.
Buenos Aires in 1887,
Astonishing indicators of development and prosperity.

Railway Firms:

  1. Argentine Inter-Provincial Railway Company
  2. Argentine Railway Concessions and Land Company
  3. Argentine Railway Construction Company
  4. Argentine Railways Purchasing Agency, 1947.
  5. Argentine Railway Loan Company, Ltd.
  6. Argentine Railway Syndicate
  7. Argentine Union Railway
  8. Bahía Blanca to Salta and Jujuy (Larrazábal concession)
  9. Branch to Cerro Rico
  10. Branch to Chaquiago
  11. Branch A.13, Comandante Leal to Pinas
  12. Branch C.19, Rapelli-Pozo Betbeder
  13. Buenos Ayres and Mercedes Railway Co.
  14. Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway Equipment and Goods Depot Company
  15. Buenos Aires Provincial Railway
  16. Buenos Aires Central Railroad & Terminal Company
  17. Buenos Aires to Montevideo
  18. Buenos Aires to Rosario (Billinghurst concession)
  19. Buenos Ayres to the River Parana Railway Co.
  20. Buenos Ayres South Western Railway
  21. Central Argentine Railway: Amalgamation, Retiro station and tariffs
  22. Central Argentine Andine Extension Railway
  23. Central Argentine Tucuman Extension Railway
  24. Compagnie française des Chemins de fer Argentins
  25. Compagnie française du Nord-Ouest argentin
  26. Compagno Hermanos
  27. Cordoba Central Railway Equipment Company
  28. Cordoba to Catamrca and San Juan
  29. Corrientes Light Railway
  30. Cramer to Beltran.
  31. Domselaar to Ensenada Railway
  32. Entre Rios Eastern Railway
  33. Ferrocarriles Pobladores
  34. Sociedad Argentina de Ferrocarriles y Elevadores Depietri, S.A.
  35. Florencia to Piracuá
  36. Grand Central Buenos Ayres Railway
  37. Grand Chemin de Fer Central Sud-Américain
  38. Industrial Railways Company of London
  39. La Plata Railway
  40. Malagueño Railway
  41. Metropolitan Railway
  42. Pedro Vargas to Malargüe Railway
  43. Port Argentine Great Central Railways
  44. Primer Entrerriano Railway
  45. Ocampo Railway
  46. Puerto Pirámides to the Salt Works on Valdés peninsula.
  47. Quijano's Industrial Railway - Lapachito to Zapallar
  48. Rafaela Steam Tramway
  49. Railway Equipment Company of Argentina
  50. Ricardo Lódola & Co.
  51. Rio Lujan Railway
  52. Rope-way to Famatina
  53. Rope-way to the Inner Roads of Buenos Aires
  54. Rosario and Mendoza Railway
  55. Rosario and Western Railway
  56. Rufino and Bahia Blanca Railway
  57. Santa Fe and Córdoba Railway
  58. Santa Fe Northern Railway.
  59. Santa Fe to the Bermejo River.
  60. Société Argentine des Wagons Restaurants et Wagons Lits.
  61. South American Railway Construction Company
  62. South Argentine Railway and Steam Navigation Company
  63. Southern Central Railway of the Province of Buenos Aires
  64. South Frontier Railway
  65. State Railways
  66. Steam Tramway from El Tío to Leones.
  67. Tránsito to Mar Chiquita
  68. Urdániz y Cía., their branch to Los Talas.
  69. Villa Krause to Caucete
  70. Western Railway of Santa Fe

Tramways, Stage Coaches and Carts
Stage coaches from Rosario to Cordoba, 1856-1885.
Stage coaches -- in 1884 and in the 1895 census.
Contracts for lines of carts with Timoteo Gordillo and Moreno, Ruscheweyht & Co.
Land grants, monopoly franchises, subsidies and profit guarantees for the above.
Cost of carting grain to stations, 1930.
Road vs. Rail
Road Locomotives.
Cockburn-Muir's Iron Way, 1870
Tramways:
  1. Anglo-Argentine
  2. Argentine
  3. Argentine Electric Traction
  4. Argentine Tramways & Power
  5. Bahia Blanca
  6. Buenos Ayres and Belgrano Tramways
  7. Buenos Aires City & Suburban
  8. Buenos Aires Electric
  9. Buenos Ayres Grand National
  10. Buenos Aires Lacroze
  11. Buenos Ayres National
  12. Buenos Ayres New
  13. Buenos Ayres Street Railway
  14. Buenos Aires Town & Docks Tramways
  15. Compagnie Générale de Tramways de Buenos-Ayres
  16. Compagnie générale des tramways électriques de Rosario
  17. Compañía de Tramways Eléctricos del Sud
  18. City of Buenos Ayres
  19. La Capital
  20. La Plata Electric
  21. La Plata and Ensenada
  22. Metropolitan

Ports and Navigation
  1. Argentine Lighter Company
  2. Argentine Navigation (N. Mihanovich)
  3. Argentine Steam Lighter Company
  4. British & Argentine Steam Navigation.
  5. Buenos Ayres Bonded Wharf and River Transit Company Ltd.
  6. The Port of Buenos Ayres, 1872
  7. Buenos Ayres Harbour Works Trust.
  8. The New Port of Buenos Aires: Proposals and contract, 1911.
  9. Buenos Ayres Southern Dock
  10. Catalinas Warehouses and Mole Company, Ltd.
  11. Contracts with Edward Augustus Hopkins and Esteban Rams y Rupert
    Land grants, monopoly franchises, subsidies and profit guarantees for ports on the Paraná River and navigation of the Salado.
  12. La Plata Port.
  13. La Platense Steam Navigation Company
  14. Navigable canals
  15. Port Commercial de Bahia-Blanca.
  16. Punta Lara and Ensenada
  17. River Parana Steam Ship Company.
  18. Salado Company.
  19. San Clemente Port
  20. Sociedad de puertos, muelles y depósitos fluviales.
  21. Société du port du Rosario.

Banks and Finance
  1. Anglo-Argentine Bank
  2. Anglo South American Bank
  3. Argentine Farmers' Bank
  4. Bank of Tarapaca and Argentina
  5. Banque de Crédit Foncier et Agricole de Santa Fe.
  6. Banque argentine et française.
  7. Banque hypothécaire franco-argentine.
  8. British Bank of South America
  9. Caisse hypothécaire argentine
  10. Compagnie Générale Financière France-Amérique Latine.
  11. English Bank of the River Plate
  12. London & River Plate Bank
  13. Mercantile Bank of the River Plate
  14. Primitiva Holdings Ltd.
  15. Société de crédit foncier de Santa Fé
  16. Société Financière Rosario - Puerto Belgrano
  17. United Kingdom and Argentine 1933 Convention Trust.
Foreign Debt: Federal, Provincial and Municipal, 1824-1914, including London Stock Exchange quotations.
Shareholder lists:
London and River Plate Bank, 1876 and 1880.
Mercantile Bank of the River Plate, 1873 and 1879.

Land and Real Estate
  1. Albion Land Company
  2. Alto Parana Development
  3. Anglo-Argentine Yerba Company
  4. Anglo South American Real Property
  5. Argentine Colonization and Land
  6. Argentine Eastern Land
  7. Argentine Estates of Bovril
  8. Argentine Hardwoods and Lands
  9. Argentine Land and Investment
  10. Argentine Land and Stock Company.
  11. Argentine Lands and Industries
  12. Argentine National & Provincial Lands
  13. Argentine Northern Land
  14. Argentine Republic Land & Trust Co.
  15. Argentine Southern Land
  16. Argentine Timber and Estates
  17. Associated Estancias
  18. Bahia Blanca Sheep, Cattle & Agricultural Farming
  19. Bermejo Estancia Company
  20. British & Argentine Corporation.
  21. Buenos Ayres Land & Cattle
  22. Campana Estancia Company
  23. Central Argentine Land
  24. Cerrillos Estancia
  25. Ciudad de Invierno, S.A.
  26. Compañía Citrícola Centinela
  27. Compañía de Tierras del Oeste
  28. Compañía de Tierras del Sud
  29. Compañía de Tierras y Hoteles de Alta Gracia
  30. Compañía de Tierras y Hoteles de Sierra de la Ventana
  31. Compañía Inmobiliaria Franco-Argentina.
  32. Cordova Land
  33. Cordova Land and Colonization Co.
  34. Curumalán Estancia and Colonies
  35. Development Company of Santa Fe.
  36. El Ají Land and Colonisation
  37. "El Nueve y Medio" S.A. de Agricultura y Ganadería
  38. English River Plate Estancia & Land.
  39. Estancia & Properties
  40. Estancia El Espartillar
  41. Estancias "La 76"
  42. Estancias y Colonias Walker
  43. Forestal Land, Timber and Railways
  44. Frutales de Pindapoy
  45. Germania Estancia
  46. Guatrache Land
  47. Henly Colony
  48. Jewish Colonization Association, incl. official history published on the jubilee.
  49. Las Barrrancas Estancia Co.
  50. Las Cabezas Estancia
  51. L. J. Argentine Estates
  52. Latin American Investment Trust
  53. Leach's Argentine Estates
  54. Liverpool and Argentine Trust & Investment Company
  55. London & South American Investment Trust
  56. Los Ceibos Estancia Company.
  57. Los Mirasoles Estancia Company.
  58. Mortgage Company of the River Plate
  59. Naposta Colony
  60. New Zealand and River Plate Land and Mortgage Company
  61. Pampa Estancia
  62. Patagonian Sheep Farming
  63. Pedernales - Explotación de Ganadería y Agricultura
  64. Plantaciones del Nord Este Argentino, S. A.
  65. Port Argentine Land and Development Company
  66. Port Madryn Land
  67. Railway Colonization Consortium
  68. Reid Estancias
  69. River Plate and General Investment Trust
  70. River Plate Land & Farming
  71. River Plate Trust, Loan and Agency Company
  72. Rosario and Cordoba Development Company
  73. Salta (Argentina) Syndicate
  74. San Juan Estancia Company.
  75. Santa Fe Land Company
  76. Santa Fe Land (1924)
  77. Santa Fe and Cordova Great Southern Land
  78. Scottish Estancia Company
  79. South American Assets
  80. South American Cattle Farms
  81. South American Hotels
  82. South American Land
  83. Tecka Land Company
  84. Tigre Hotel
  85. United Estancias Company
  86. Yeruá Estancia
    Shareholder lists:
    Central Argentine Land Company, 1870.
    Chubut Company, 1891, 1896, 1901 and 1904.
    Santa Fe & Cordoba Great Southern Land Co., 1889.
    Santa Fe Land Company, 1889 and 1900.
    South American Land Company, 1881, 1907.

Water, Gas, Electricity, and Telephones
George Ernest Stevenson, The Gas Supply of Buenos Ayres, 1890.

  1. Argentine Light & Power
  2. Atlas Light & Power
  3. Bahia Blanca Gas
  4. Bahia Blanca Waterworks
  5. Belgrano Gas
  6. Bright's Light & Power
  7. Buenos Aires Lacroze Light & Power
  8. Buenos Ayres (New) Gas Company
  9. Buenos Ayres Water Supply and Drainage
  10. Compañía Alemana Transatlántica de Electricidad.
  11. Compañía de Electricidad de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
  12. Compañía Hidro-Eléctrica de Tucumán, S.A.
  13. Compañía Hispano-Americana de Electricidad.
  14. Consolidated Waterworks of Rosario
  15. Consumers Gas Co.
  16. Cordoba Light & Power
  17. La Plata Waterworks
  18. Parana Waterworks
  19. Primitiva Gas
  20. Province of Buenos Aires Gas
  21. Province of Buenos Aires Waterworks
  22. River Plate Electricity
  23. River Plate Gas
  24. River Plate Telegraph
  25. River Plate Telephone & Electric
  26. Rosario and Cordoba Waterworks
  27. Rosario City Improvements
  28. Rosario Drainage
  29. Rosario Electric
  30. San Nicolas Waterworks Company.
  31. South American Light & Power
  32. South Barracas Gas & Coke.
  33. George Ernest Stevenson, The Gas Supply of Buenos Ayres, 1890.
    History of the manufacturers, consumption, production, cost and price of gas.
  34. Tucuman Tramways, Light & Power
  35. United River Plate Telephone

Industrial and Commercial
  1. Agar, Cross & Co.
  2. S.A. Fábrica Argentina de Alpargatas
  3. Anglo Argentine Iron
  4. Argentine Cloth Factory
  5. Argentine Fruit Distibutors Company
  6. Argentine Industrial
  7. Argentine Iron & Steel
  8. Argentine Meat Preserving
  9. Argentine Refinery
  10. Argentine Stone & Brick
  11. Argentine Sugar Estates & Factories.
  12. Argentine Tobacco
  13. Artificial coal manufacture
  14. M. S. Bagley & Co.
  15. Bahia Blanca Saladero
  16. British and Argentine Meat
  17. Bieckert's Brewery.
  18. Central Produce Market
  19. Compañía de Productos Kemmerich.
  20. Delacre's "La Plata" Extract of Beef
  21. Entre Rios Extract of Meat
  22. Evans, Thornton & Co.
  23. Fábrica Nacional de Ladrillos
  24. Fabricación de carbón artificial.
  25. Harrods (B.A.).
  26. Highland Scot Canning Co.
  27. Infant Industries
  28. James Nelson & Sons.
  29. Liebig's Extract of Meat Co.
  30. J. F. Macadam & Co.
  31. Moore & Tudor
  32. People's Park at Palermo
  33. River Plate, British & Continental Meat
  34. River Plate Fresh Meat
  35. River Plate Pressure Meat Preserving
  36. San Isidro Brick Factory
  37. Santiago Sugar Estates & Factories
  38. Schwartz & Co.
  39. Sheep boiling establishments in the Province of Buenos Aires -- 1871 and 1882.
  40. Smithfield and Argentine Meat
  41. South American Stores (Gath & Chaves).
  42. South American Val de Travers
  43. Sugar factories -- 1895 census.
  44. Terrason's Freezing Establishment
  45. The Colonial and South American Fresh Meat Company.
  46. Tucuman Sugar Company
  47. Tucuman Estates Sugar Plantations and Factories Company
  48. Wilson, Sons & Co.

Mining
James McKean Rowbotham, Mineral Resources of the Argentine Republic, 1897.

  1. Aguilar (St. Joseph's) Mining Co.
  2. Anglo-Argentine Mining
  3. Argentine and General Exploration Co.
  4. Argentine Borax
  5. Argentine Concessions Ltd.
  6. Argentine (Cerro Valle) Gold Fields
  7. Argentine Gulf Oil Syndicate
  8. Argentine Mining Trust
  9. Argentine Oilfields, Ltd.
  10. Capillitas Copper
  11. Carmen Alto Mining
  12. Central Argentine Gold Fields
  13. Central Argentine (Carpa Valley) Exploration
  14. Comodoro Oil & Transport
  15. Compañía Ferrocarrilera de Petróleo
  16. Compañía Mendocina de Petróleo
  17. Concordia Consolidated Mines
  18. Duns Exploration Syndicate
  19. Exploration Company of the Uspallata Mines
  20. Famatina Copper and Gold Syndicate
  21. Famatina Development Company
  22. Glenrock Company
  23. Inter-American Mining and Smelting Co.
  24. Mining Exploration
  25. Petroleum in Jujuy and Tarija
  26. Phoenix Ltd.
  27. Pumahuasi, Compañía Industrial del Plomo
  28. Rara Fortuna Silver Mining
  29. Rio del oro Gold Mines, Ltd.
  30. San Isidro Brick Factory
  31. San Juan Gold Mining Syndicate
  32. San Juan Mines
  33. San Juan Mining and Smelting Co.
  34. San Rafael Coal-mining Co.
  35. West Argentine Extensions
  36. West Argentine Gold

Road Transport

  1. Tolls on streets and highways, 1874 and 1952
  2. Compañía de Transportes Camineros
  3. Compañía Internacional de Transportes Automóviles
  4. Litoral Transport Company
  5. Motor Car services in Patagonia.
  6. Transportes Regionales Argentinos.

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