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:

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.
Elevators and bagging of grain.
The Argentine Club in London.
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. Corrientes Light Railway
  29. Cramer to Beltran.
  30. Entre Rios Eastern Railway
  31. Ferrocarriles Pobladores
  32. Sociedad Argentina de Ferrocarriles y Elevadores Depietri, S.A.
  33. Florencia to Piracuá
  34. Grand Chemin de Fer Central Sud-Américain
  35. Industrial Railways Company of London
  36. La Plata Railway
  37. Malagueño Railway
  38. Metropolitan Railway
  39. Pedro Vargas to Malargüe Railway
  40. Port Argentine Great Central Railways
  41. Primer Entrerriano Railway
  42. Ocampo Railway
  43. Puerto Pirámides to the Salt Works on Valdés peninsula.
  44. Quijano's Industrial Railway - Lapachito to Zapallar
  45. Rafaela Steam Tramway
  46. Railway Equipment Company of Argentina
  47. Ricardo Lódola & Co.
  48. Rope-way to Famatina
  49. Rosario and Mendoza Railway
  50. Rosario and Western Railway
  51. Rufino and Bahia Blanca Railway
  52. Santa Fe and Córdoba Railway
  53. Santa Fe Northern Railway.
  54. Santa Fe to the Bermejo River.
  55. Société Argentine des Wagons Restaurants et Wagons Lits.
  56. South American Railway Construction Company
  57. South Argentine Railway and Steam Navigation Company
  58. Southern Central Railway of the Province of Buenos Aires
  59. State Railways
  60. Steam Tramway from El Tío to Leones.
  61. Tránsito to Mar Chiquita
  62. Urdániz y Cía., their branch to Los Talas.
  63. Villa Krause to Caucete
  64. 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. British & Argentine Steam Navigation.
  4. Buenos Ayres Bonded Wharf and River Transit Company Ltd.
  5. The Port of Buenos Ayres, 1872
  6. Buenos Ayres Harbour Works Trust.
  7. The New Port of Buenos Aires: Proposals and contract, 1911.
  8. Buenos Ayres Southern Dock
  9. Catalinas Warehouses and Mole Company, Ltd.
  10. 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.
  11. La Plata Port.
  12. La Platense Steam Navigation Company
  13. Navigable canals
  14. Port Commercial de Bahia-Blanca.
  15. River Parana Steam Ship Company.
  16. Salado Company.
  17. San Clemente Port
  18. San Fernando Wharf and Branch Railway Co.
  19. Sociedad de puertos, muelles y depósitos fluviales.
  20. 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. Curumalán Estancia and Colonies
  34. Development Company of Santa Fe.
  35. El Ají Land and Colonisation
  36. "El Nueve y Medio" S.A. de Agricultura y Ganadería
  37. English River Plate Estancia & Land.
  38. Estancia & Properties
  39. Estancia El Espartillar
  40. Estancias "La 76"
  41. Estancias y Colonias Walker
  42. Forestal Land, Timber and Railways
  43. Frutales de Pindapoy
  44. Germania Estancia
  45. Guatrache Land
  46. Henly Colony
  47. Jewish Colonization Association, incl. official history published on the jubilee.
  48. Las Barrrancas Estancia Co.
  49. Las Cabezas Estancia
  50. L. J. Argentine Estates
  51. Latin American Investment Trust
  52. Leach's Argentine Estates
  53. Liverpool and Argentine Trust & Investment Company
  54. London & South American Investment Trust
  55. Los Ceibos Estancia Company.
  56. Los Mirasoles Estancia Company.
  57. Mortgage Company of the River Plate
  58. New Zealand and River Plate Land and Mortgage Company
  59. Pampa Estancia
  60. Patagonian Sheep Farming
  61. Pedernales - Explotación de Ganadería y Agricultura
  62. Plantaciones del Nord Este Argentino, S. A.
  63. Port Argentine Land and Development Company
  64. Port Madryn Land
  65. Railway Colonization Consortium
  66. Reid Estancias
  67. River Plate and General Investment Trust
  68. River Plate Land & Farming
  69. River Plate Trust, Loan and Agency Company
  70. Rosario and Cordoba Development Company
  71. Salta (Argentina) Syndicate
  72. San Juan Estancia Company.
  73. Santa Fe Land Company
  74. Santa Fe Land (1924)
  75. Santa Fe and Cordova Great Southern Land
  76. Scottish Estancia Company
  77. South American Assets
  78. South American Cattle Farms
  79. South American Hotels
  80. South American Land
  81. United Estancias Company
  82. 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. Cordoba Light & Power
  16. Parana Waterworks
  17. Primitiva Gas
  18. Province of Buenos Aires Gas
  19. Province of Buenos Aires Waterworks
  20. River Plate Electricity
  21. River Plate Gas
  22. River Plate Telegraph
  23. River Plate Telephone & Electric
  24. Rosario and Cordoba Waterworks
  25. Rosario City Improvements
  26. Rosario Drainage
  27. Rosario Electric
  28. San Nicolas Waterworks Company.
  29. South American Light & Power
  30. South Barracas Gas & Coke.
  31. History of the manufacturers, consumption, production, cost and price of gas.
  32. Tucuman Tramways, Light & Power
  33. United River Plate Telephone

Industrial and Commercial
  1. Agar, Cross & Co.
  2. S.A. Fábrica Argentina de Alpargatas
  3. Anglo Argentine Iron
  4. Argentine Fruit Distibutors Company
  5. Argentine Industrial
  6. Argentine Iron & Steel
  7. Argentine Meat Preserving
  8. Argentine Refinery
  9. Argentine Stone & Brick
  10. Argentine Sugar Estates & Factories.
  11. Argentine Tobacco
  12. M. S. Bagley & Co.
  13. British and Argentine Meat
  14. Bieckert's Brewery.
  15. Compañía de Productos Kemmerich.
  16. Delacre's "La Plata" Extract of Beef
  17. Entre Rios Extract of Meat
  18. Evans, Thornton & Co.
  19. Harrods (B.A.).
  20. Highland Scot Canning Co.
  21. James Nelson & Sons.
  22. Liebig's Extract of Meat Co.
  23. J. F. Macadam & Co.
  24. Moore & Tudor
  25. People's Park at Palermo
  26. River Plate, British & Continental Meat
  27. River Plate Fresh Meat
  28. River Plate Pressure Meat Preserving
  29. Santiago Sugar Estates & Factories
  30. Sheep boiling establishments in the Province of Buenos Aires -- 1871.
  31. Smithfield and Argentine Meat
  32. South American Stores (Gath & Chaves).
  33. South American Val de Travers
  34. Sugar factories -- 1895 census.
  35. Terrason's Freezing Establishment
  36. The Colonial and South American Fresh Meat Company.
  37. Tucuman Sugar Company
  38. Tucuman Estates Sugar Plantations and Factories Company
  39. 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. Famatina Copper and Gold Syndicate
  20. Famatina Development Company
  21. Glenrock Company
  22. Inter-American Mining and Smelting Co.
  23. Mining Exploration
  24. Petroleum in Jujuy and Tarija
  25. Phoenix Ltd.
  26. Pumahuasi, Compañía Industrial del Plomo
  27. Rara Fortuna Silver Mining
  28. Rio del oro Gold Mines, Ltd.
  29. San Juan Gold Mining Syndicate
  30. San Juan Mines
  31. San Juan Mining and Smelting Co.
  32. San Rafael Coal-mining Co.
  33. West Argentine Extensions
  34. West Argentine Gold

Road Transport

  1. Compañía de Transportes Camineros
  2. Compañía Internacional de Transportes Automóviles
  3. Litoral Transport Company
  4. Motor Car services in Patagonia.
  5. Transportes Regionales Argentinos.

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