BUENOS AYRES AND THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1378, 23 October 1886, Page 2

BUENOS AYRES AND THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Tha B ienos Ayres correspondent of the Christchurch Press writes : With the foie exception of the wool trade the frezan meat business here may be considered as the most promising industry in the country. Everything tends to its development—even the forced currency, which from almost every point of view is a curse, and fetters our trade, S'lengthens this new industry iu no small degree, since the sheep are purchased in paper and tbe carcasses sold in gold. Add to that the steady efforts of tha eatancieros to improve ihe quality of the meat in view of the growing demand in Europe, particularly in England, where people are a; last beginning to appreciate River Plate mutton. As an instance of the success of the estaucieros in this respect 1 shall call your attention to the sale of 300 capones from Messrs Gibson Brothers’ famous estate in Ajo, each animal giving 911 b clear meat. This, however, is sn exc optional case, the average yield of a good sheep here being a little over 50ib meat. In time no doubt, the quality of the mutton will enable ns to secure as good prices as the New Zealand mutton. Yon will see by the London papers that out frossn meat fetches an average i f per lb, a low price compared with the New Z island mutton.

About a week ago the Allan line steamer Zenobia cleared with 29,000 frozen car* Cisses, the heavest shipment yet reported. The Hildegard haa just left the Boca, where Mesr - Sansinena and Go's freezing factory is established, with 8500 carcasses. The Borghese left on the 6th with 15,000 carcasses, shipped from San Nicolas, an Important town up the river. The Thessaly is loading an equal number at the Boca. You can gauge by these (shipments the great progress of this industry, new to us, but which produces the most brilliam results. Thouamds of cajwnes are daily purchased for the freezing fac f ories. of which there are four—one in the Boca (which la the port of Bnenos Ayres), one iu Caoapana (op the river), one in San Nicolas, and one in Colonia, In the B»nia Oriental, our neighboring republic, for the last mentioned 300 are killed daly,