Empresa Borsari

i/ ,, X~ ON October 25, I948, an Italian motor ship J 0 e < from Genoa, Italy, arrived at Ushuaia, Argenj 1 -, ttine Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost town f I' 9 X in the world. It brought a unique experiment C 2z ^~ ~ in colonization-614 men, women, and children from the northern Italian provinces and ,' (L C), 2300 tons of material for building a settlement and initiating its industrial development This ^,. g r~/ experiment in foreign colonization had been ''..._. 259 brought about under agreement between the Argentine Ministry of Marine and private Italian interests, headed by Signor Carlos Borsari. The wholesale immigration was due both to the desire of the immigrants to escape from a war-torn homeland and to the wish of the Argentine government to develop Ushuaia as a naval base and tourist resort and to make use of the natural resources of the region. Aside from their work for the Ministry of Marine, the aim of the colonists is to develop cellulose and other wood-products industries based on the surrounding forests

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