Statement of exports from the consular district of Rio Grande do Sul to the United States during the calendar year ending December 31, 1882. Coffee Total Exports of coffee from Santos for the year ending September 30, 1882. * Estimated dutiable value, including 4 per cent. provincial duty. Such coffees are also generally of low quality. Export of sundry articles from Santos during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, as furnished by the provincial revenue office. Statement showing the imports and exports between Santos and the United States for the year ending September 30, 1882. If a remarkable increase in amount of customs revenue received and the quantity of coffee exported be indicative of prosperity, then does our custom-house here show great pròsperity for this province. Its receipts for import and export duties, &c., were: Fiscal year 1860-61, 524,000,000 reis; 1881-'82, 6,233,000,000 reis-an increase which Chicago cannot beat. The above does not include the provincial export duties; nor have we now an unwise tax of 23 per cent. ad valorem upon all goods imported from sister provinces. Neither can the above show exactly what this province has done, because of great importations made through Rio and sent overland by railway. Export of coffee in bags, crop years ending June 30 Export of coffee in bags from Santos to the United States during four years, each ending, respectively, September 30. Statement showing the navigation at the port of Santos for the year ending September 30, 1882. Statement showing the navigation at the port of Santos, &c.-Continued. The clearances above include foreign (not Brazilian) steamers and sailing vessels in port on October 1, 1881. The above table does not include Brazilian steamers and sailing vessels engaged in the coasting trade, but does include foreigners from and to Brazilian ports with cargo, part cargo, or ballast, discharged or loaded here. Left in port October 1, 1882: 3 foreign steamers, 4,748 tons; 11 sailing vessels, 3,918 tons. WM. T. WRIGHT, Consul. URUGUAY. MONTEVIDEO. Report by Mr. Wilson, chargé d'affaires, on the commerce of Uruguay for the year 1882. I am unable to furnish the information desired by Treasury circular received with my instructions in regard to the amount of gold and silver productions of this Republic, and the amount exported and imported, as well as the amount in treasury and banks, for the reason, first, that there are no published statements officially reported as to the amount of gold and silver in the banks, or in the published reports of the finance department; so I am informed by the minister of finance to whom I made application for the proper information. He has kindly sent me the full report of the operation of the Government for the year 1881, just published officially, which contains all the information of the management of the respective departments of the Government. This report is in Spanish, and I have had a person thoroughly acquainted with the Spanish language go through it and tabulate and translate such matters as I thought desirable for the information of the Government. are no productions from gold or silver mines in this Republic, and no reported amount of exports or imports of the precious metals. I have the pleasure to inclose herewith Table No. 1, of the total exports and imports for the calendar year 1881, carefully compiled from official sources; Table No. 2, showing total receipts of the Government revenue for 1881, and the expenses of the civil and military departments of the Govern ment for same period, also statement of the public debt on April 21, 1882; Table No. 3, showing amounts of bank paper in circulation on May 1, 1882, also territory and population, also foreign and coastwise trade, also passengers and emigrants for the year 1881, also the number of cattle that were slaughered in 1881. These tables are, I think, carefully There compiled from official information as published, and correctly translated, and I trust will be of some benefit to the Government. You will discover that in the Table No. 1, of imports and exports, our Government imported to this Republic during the year 1881 $1,269,778, and this Government during the same period exported to the United States $3,867,494, showing a balance of trade against us of $2,597,716, while England during the same period imported to the Republic of Uruguay $5,381,054, and received from her exports only amounting to $3,091,959, showing a balance of trade in favor of England of the sum of $2,189,095. This, in my opinion, is largely accounted for from the fact that England has her weekly line of steamers to the River Plate and merchants can avail themselves of rapid transit in receiving supplies. The same also appears in the trade with France, Germany, Spain, and Italy; all of these have steamship lines reaching the River Plate weekly. I have no doubt but with a line of steamships direct from New York to the River Plate, making trips weekly, our trade with this Republic and the Argentine Republic would be largely augmented, and until that is done we cannot successfully compete for the trade of this part of South America with the Government whose steamship lines afford so much better and quicker transit for their productions. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Montevideo, October 17, 1882. W. WILLIAMS, No. 1.-Imports and exports of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, calendar year 1881. No. 2.-Total receipts of Government revenue for 1881, expenses of civil and military departments for the same period, and statement of the public debt on April 21, 1882. Total amount of revenue received from all sources, 1881. Amount paid out on account of navy and army and pensions for the year 1881 $8,612, 357 41 1,803, 898 36 Amount paid out on account of treasury department Amount paid out on account of interior department. Total amount of the public debt on the 21st of April, 1882, including domestic, funded and international of every description.... 605,932 16 761,762 38 75,649 55 219,375 44 1,275, 107 88 57,520,866 62 No. 3.-Amount of bank paper in circulation, territory and population, foreign and coastwise trade, passengers and emigrants arriving and departing, and number of cattle slaughtered. Total amount of bank-paper circulation on May 1, 1831. $3,857, 543 TERRITORY AND POPULATION. Total amount of territory, square miles Estimated population May 29, 1882, no accurate census having been made. 70,000 438, 245 384 692 794, 443 378 493 713, 177 Number of steamers and sailing vessels arriving in 1881 Number of steamers and sailing vessels departing in 1881. Tonnage... Arriving in 1881 Departing in 1881 PASSENGERS AND EMIGRANTS. 2,906 556,877 3, 101 644, 508 21,909 21, 216 CATTLE SLAUghtered. Number of cattle slaughtered in 1881 576, 170 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Report by Consul Baker on the commerce and industries of the Argentine Republic for the year ending September 30, 1882. The consular year just closed has been one of uninterrupted peace and quiet throughout the Argentine Republic, while its relations with other countries have been all that could be desired. Since my last annual report the limits question with Chili, then in progress of accommodation, has been finally settled to the satisfaction of both countries. By the terms of the treaty arranged under the auspices of the United States ministers resident here and at Santiago de Chili, the dividing ridge of the Andes Mountains is made the line of separation between the two Republics through the length of Patagonia, until reaching Mount Aymond, whence it runs eastwardly until it strikes Mount Dinero, and from there carried along the land to Point Dungeness. In Terra del Fuego the line is drawn from Cape Espiritu Santo, in latitude 50° 40′, and prolonged to the south, coinciding with the meridian west of Greenwich 68° 34', until it touches Beagle Channel, all to the west of this line belonging to Chili and all to the east to the Argentine Republic. As regards the islands, those belonging to the Argentine Republic shall be Los Estados and all in their vicinity; also those in the Atlantic lying east of Terra del Fuego and the eastern shores of Patagonia; and those belonging to Chili shall be the islands south of Beagle Channel, and all lying west of Terra del Fuego to Cape Horn. |