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Show ARGENTINE PR08PEBITY That Country Is Richer Than This and Its ' Trade Extensive New York. Dec. 2. The cost of living liv-ing in liuenos Ayres Is nearly twice, what It is in New York City, according to Clms. II. Sherril, United .States ! minister to Argentine, who Is in New j York on a luilough. in a statement I on "trade openings" lu South Aincrl cm," he says: Few Americans realize thai the people peo-ple ol the Argentine;, taken all In all. rre richer than we are here Huenos -lyres Is one of the most expensive cities In the world to live In, lor the rUndard of living Is high and the people demand the best that Is to be hand. U costs a great deal more, in laol alhoxt double, to keep house In liucnos Ayrcs, than It docs in New "i in k. "In my opinion there Is no other market which offers a better Held for immediate exploitation than South America, England knows the markets of Argentine, andhe P.uenos Ayres commercial representatives state that England last year took $250,0rt0,"OO j from thU country that United States manufacturers don't know anything about. ' I have only to say that the foreign for-eign trade of Argentine list year was $7'U,(hmi.iioo, that of P.razll $ I "0,000.-mio; "0,000.-mio; Mexico $2nn,oiii),noo; Chile and Cuba each $200,ou0.ouo. Argentine had a market ready for the products of the United States three and a half times the size of Mexico or Cuba or Chile" |