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Igual derecho, y con la indemnización previa, tiene el concesionario, respecto de los terrenos indispensables, fuera del perímetro de la concesión, para los mismos fines.

ART. 98. Se exceptúan de lo dispuesto en los dos artículos anteriores, los terrenos ocupados por construcciones; los que solo podrán adquirirse por el concesionario de la mina con el consentimiento del dueño.

ART. 99. Cuando los interesados no se pongan de acuerdo para la cesión del terreno requerido, la Diputación procederá á la expropiación, observando el procedimiento señalado en el título 17.

Art. 100. Los gastos que ocasione la expropiación, de que tratan los artículos anteriores, son de cuenta del que la pide; exceptuándose los que origine la oposición infundada del poseedor del suelo, que serán de cargo de éste, y el monto de ellos será valorizado por la Diputación.

ART. 101. Pasados dos años continuous de abandonada una mina, computados desde la fecha del primer padrón en que haya aparecido como denunciable, el dueño de la superficie de la cual se tomó la parte expropiada conforme al artículo 97, puede recuperarla, sin gravámen, ocurriendo á la Diputación. La recuperación comprenderá los edificios y construcciones, que en ella hubieren, siempre que se encuentren en la condición denunciables, especificada en el artículo 138.

Si los edificios y construcciones no estuviesen en esa condición, el que recupere el suelo puede adquirirlos, pagando su valor á justa tasación.

ART. 102. Cuando dentro de los dos años indicados en el artículo anterior, se denunciare la mina, la posesión comprenderá el terreno adquirido por expropiación, sin gravámen para el denunciante. Lo mismo sucederá, aún pasados los dos años, si hasta la fecha del denuncio el antiguo propietario del suelo no hubiese hecho valer su derecho de recuperación.

El nuevo denunciante adquiere sin gravámen los edificios ó construcciones existentes en el suelo, por el hecho de la concesión, siempre que estén en la condición de denunciables.

Si los editicios y construcciones no se encontrasen en esa condición, el denunciante podrá adquirirlos, pagando su valor á justa tasación.

ART. 103. Todo concesionario está obligado á indemnizar al dueño del suelo, los daños que le causen los trabajos de explotación, subterráneos ó superficiales, previa tasación. Si los daños proceden de varias minas, cada concesionario es responsable en proporción á la parte que le sea imputable en ellos.

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ART. 104. La posesión de una mina no dá derechos para oponerse á que se ejecuten, dentro de los límites de la concesión, obras de reconocido interés público, como caminos, ferrocarriles, canales y otras de la misma clase, que autorizan la expropiación, conforme á las leyes comunes.

ART. 105. El concesionario de una mina tiene derecho de hacer uso, para los trabajos de ella, de los materiales de construcción y de las sustancias inconcedibles, que encontrare en el curso de las labores.

ART. 106. El orden que debe observarse en los trabajos que haga el dueño del suelo, para explotar las sustancias minerales de su dominio, según el artículo segundo de esta ley, en relación con las labores de la mina, se fijará de acuerdo; y á falta de avenencia, por árbitros nombrados por ambas partes, correspondiendo a la Diputación el nombramiento de dirimente, en caso de discordia. Del fallo arbitral puede pedirse revisión al Gobierno, quien resolverá el caso, oyendo al Consejo Superior de Minería.

Título IX. -- Relaciones entre los propietarios de minas. ART. 107. Todo propietario de mina tiene derecho á ejecutar en terreno franco todos los trabajos, que no siendo de explotación tengan por objeto el acceso, ventilación ó desagüe de la mina y la seguridad de los trabajadores. Al efecto, recabará el permiso de la Diputación, que no podrá negarlo, sino por motivo de interés público.

Las labores indicadas se considerarán dependientes y parte integrante de la mina en cuyo favor se ejecutan.

Art. 108. Si el minero para atender al acceso, ventilación ó desagüe de una mina, tuviera que iniciar un socavón en pertenencia agena, atravesándola en parte ó en toda su extensión, ó comunicar para sólo los efectos de la ventilación y desagüe sus labores con las de las minas vicinas, y no pudiera llegar á una avenencia con los interesados, deberá solicitar el permiso respectivo de la Diputación.

La Diputación concederá este permiso, previo informe del perito y citación del interesado, siempre que resultasen acreditadas las circunstancias siguientes:

1o. Que no se puede ejecutar la obra por otros puntos, ó que en caso de ser posible, se incurriría en gastos mayores.

24. Que no se inhabilita ó dificulta la explotación de la mina invadida ni se irroga otro perjuicio grave.

Art. 109. La obra á que se refiere el artículo anterior, se ejecutará con sujeción á las prevenciones de la Diputación, en vista del informe del perito nombrado por ella, y por cuenta exclusiva del que la solicitó; pudiendo el otro interesado exijir á éste el previo otorgamiento de una fianza á su satisfacción, para responder de los daños y perjuicios que pudieran sobrevenir.

A falta de avenencia entre los interesados, respecto al monto de la garantía, ésta será determinad a por la Diputación, oyendo á las partes. Tanto de esta resolución, como de la que corresponde al artículo anterior, queda á los interesados el derecho de acudir en revisión al Ministerio de Fomento.

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DERECHOS SOBRE EL PETRÓLEO EN LA

AMÉRICA LATINA.

La circular del Departamento del Tesoro, de los Estados Unidos, No. 113, de 20 de noviembre, 1905, demuestra que la partida No. 626 del Arancel de 24 de julio, 1897, dice que “cuando el petróleo bruto ó sus derivados se importen de países que graven con derechos los procedentes de los Estados Unidos, estos productos adeudarán derechos equivalentes.”

El siguiente cuadro designa los países de la América Latina que gravan con derechos el petróleo bruto y sus derivados, así como la cuantía de los derechos que estos países perciben á la importación de dichos productos:

República Argentina.- Petróleo bruto, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 10 centavos el kilogramo; naftas derivadas del petróleo y "carburines” cuyo punto de ebullición sea inferior á 90° centígrados, libres; “ligroïne” y productos similares, así como bencinas naturales cuyo punto de ebullición sea inferior á 120° centígrados, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 10 centavos el kilogramo; bencina rectificada, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 30 centavos el kilogramo neto; aceites minerales no expresados, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 10 centavos el kilogramo; aceites minerales en frascos, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 75 centavos el kilogramo; parafina de todas clases, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 40 centavos el kilogramo; bujías de parafina, 10 centavos el kilogramo; kerosena, 3 centavos el litro.

Bolivia.--Gasolina, nafta, parafina, petróleo ó kerosena, 30 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 8 centavos el kilogramo, peso bruto; parafina en pasta, 30 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 25 centavos el kilogramo, peso bruto; bencina, 30 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 1 boliviano el kilogramo, incluso el envase; vaselina, 30 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 1 boliviano 40 centavos el kilogramo, incluso el envase; alquitrán líquido, 30 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 1 boliviano el kilogramo, incluso el envase.

Brasil.- Nafta que se importe en Rio de Janeiro, $4.98 los 100 kilogramos; cuando se importe en otros puertos, $8.47; aceites para el alumbrado refinados, kerosena y gasolina, que se importen en Rìo de Janeiro, $2.31 los 100 kilogramos; importados en otros puertos, $2.21; aceite para engrasar, obscuro, negro ó de color, y residuos de la destilación del petróleo, que se importen en Rio de Janeiro, $1.33 les 100 kilogramos; importados en otros puertos, $1.26.

Chile.— Bencina ordinaria, 5 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 15 centavos el kilogramo, incluso el envase; bencina rectificada, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 1 peso el kilogramo, incluso el envase; bujías de parafina, 35 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 80 centavos el kilogramo, incluso el empaque; lamparillas de parafina para mariposas, 35 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 1 peso el kilogramo, incluso el empaque; bujías de paratina con dorados ó adornos, 35 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 1.50 peso el kilogramo, incluso el empaque; cirios y velas de cera, ó combinados con cera, blancos ó de color, 35 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 2 pesos el kilogramo, incluso el empaque; velas de cera ó combinadas con cera, con dorados ó adornos, 35 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 3 pesos el kilogramo, incluso el empaque; parafina en bloques, 5 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 35 centavos el kilogramo bruto; parafina, petróleo, gasolina, nafta, ó kerosena para el alumbrado, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 10 centavos el kilogramo bruto; petróleo bruto, libre; petróleo fijo, impuro, para máquinas, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 10 centavos el kilogramo bruto; vaselina ó crema de vaselina para la tez, 60 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 2 pesos el kilogramo, incluso los envases ó cajitas; aceite de vaselina, 25 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 1.20 pesos el kilogramo, incluso, envase; alquitrán ó pez mineral, 15 por ciento sobre un avalúo de 5 centavos el kilo

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Ecuador Brasil Santo Tomas.. Trinidad República Dominicana Venezuela Grenada Costa de Oro Cuba y Puerto Rico. Ceylon. Haiti Jamaica Martinique y Guadalupe Las Antillas Orientales Holandesas Camerones, Samoa y Togo. Surinam Santa Lucia. Dominica El Estado Libre del Congo. Otros países

Toneladas.! Toneladas. Toneladas. | Toneladas. 22, 896 24, 965 23, 238

28, 433 18, 323 20, 370 20, 738

23, 160 16, 982 17, 969 21, 450

20, 326 11,942 15,955

14, 885

18, 574 6, 850 8, 975

7, 825 13, 557 7, 860 9, 925 12, 550

13, 048 4,865 5, 975 6, 150

6,226 996 2, 436 2, 297

5, 687 1, 750 1, 875 2, 625

3, 206 2, 697 2, 673 3, 075

3, 254 1,950 1, 994 2, 175

2, 531 1,352 1,525 1, 650

1,650 823

925

1, 150 1,276

1, 215 889 1, 458

1, 140 528 648 805

1, 109 3,163 2,355 2,224

854 765 785 800

800 485

231 700 700 800

806

El aumento más notable, á saber, de 148 por ciento, ocurrió en la Costa de Oro, donde las plantaciones de cacao llegan en una proporción creciente cada año al estado de producción, para el cual se requieren de cinco á seis años. Solamente el distrito de Accra produce 515 toneladas, y Lagos y Nigeria juntos producen 53 toneladas, la mayor parte del cual fué exportado á Hamburgo y se consumió en Alemania. El cacao de Acera, especialmente, durante los pocos años que ha podido obtenerse en cantidades considerables, ya ha obtenido un mercado fácil y seguro en Alemania, y algunas veces el abastecimiento no es suficiente para satisfacer las demandas que hay de dicho producto.

En la República Dominicana, que muestra el próximo aumento de consideración, las plantaciones las poseen mayormente los agricultores en menor escala, con excepción de unas cuantas fincas grandes, de las cuales las más importantes pertenecen á una compañía suiza de Suchard, que cuenta con extensa maquinaria agrícola y ferrocarriles de vía angosta. Por más que en la Costa de Oro el cultivo del cacao lo hacen casi enteramente los nativos, sin embargo, en la República Dominicana, á pesar de la poca extensión de algunas de las plantaciones, con frecuencia se cultiva científicamente, y como quiera que el terreno propicio para dicho cultivo se obtiene á un precio muy bajo, es lógico esperar que la producción de cacoa en dicha República aumenta de año en año. Hamburgo es el mercado principal que la República Dominicana tiene para este producto.

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que todos los esfuerzos que se han hecho para mejorar la producción han sido inútiles:

Exportaciones de cacao de Surinam.

La siguiente tabla muestra el consumo de cacao en los varios países del mundo durante los años de 1901 á 1904:

Estados Unidos Alemania .. Francia. Reino Unido Holanda Suiza. España. Bèlgica Austria-Hungría Rusia Dinamarca. Suecia Canadá. Australia. Italia. Noruega. Portugal Finlanda.

Toneladas. Toneladas. Toneladas. Toneladas. 20, 665

23, 120 28, 508 18, 410

33, 169 20, 601 21, 491 17, 916

27, 101 19, 343 20, 638

21, 799 18, 908 20, 386 17, 485

20, 552 14, 373 14, 666

16, 741 4, 363

21, 124 5,707

5,856 5,931

6,839 9, 259 6,006

5,611 1, 865 2, 277

2, 767 1,685

2,792 1, 820

2,034 1,757

2,510 1,818

1, 900 762

2,055 802 1,150

996 455 591 774

870 459 312 685

650 568 554 443

550 563 466 468

479 368 410 439

472 100 112 136

180 25 47 61

63 109, 173

122, 491 127, 482 147, 802

Total incluso las exportaciones de Holanda

Por las tablas de producción y consumo que se han citado, se deduce que en 1904, el consumo fué mayor que la producción, pero no sucedió realmente así. El error que se advierte en los totales de estas tablas se debe á las cifras correspondientes á Holanda, donde, para los fines de la estadística, el total de la cantidad importada se incluye también en la cantidad consumida, al paso que en realidad hubo una gran cantidad que no se reexportó, según se muestra en la siguiente tabla:

Cacao importado y exportado de Holanda.

Importado. Exportado

Cantidad que se consumió realmente

Toneladas. Toneladas. Toneladas.

14, 666 16,641 21,124 5,493 6,011

8, 939 9, 173 10,730

12, 185

En cuanto a la tabla de consumo, se verá que el aumento más importante ocurrió en Alemania, á saber, un 26 por ciento, en tanto que entre los otros consumidores más importantes, en el Reino Unido ocurrió un aumento de un 17 por ciento, y en los Estados Unidos ocurrió un aumento de un 16.25 por ciento. Entre los consumidores menores en Austria-Hungría, ocurrió un aumento de 24.5 por ciento, y en Suiza ocurrió un aumento de un 17 por ciento. Teniendo en cuenta el error. que se advierte en las cifras que expresan el consumo en Holanda, se verá que por más que en 1904 en la cosecha de cacao hubo un aumento de un 16 por ciento, en el consumo hubo un aumento de un 14.5 por ciento, comparado con el consumo total de 1903.

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“ The programme of the Second American International Conference was comprised in the following propositions:

* “ First. Matters treated by the former Conference which the new Conference decides to reconsider.

" Second. Arbitration. • “Third. International court of claims.

Fourth. Means of protecting industry, agriculture, and commerce, development of communications between the nations that form the union, consular, port, and customs regulations, statistics.

" Fifth. Reorganization of the International Bureau of American Republics.'

“ The programme, as we see, was as extensive as tbat of the first Conference, and was calculated to give rise to long and thorough discussion of all those principles that serve to lay the foundation of the agricultural, industrial, commercial, and political prosperity of America.

"If all the nations represented in that Conference had sent to their respective legislative bodies for study and ratification after the meeting of the delegates all the conventions and treaties adjusted, and these had been sanctioned by all the Governments, the task of the Conference held in Mexico would have been of such importance that it could well have gloried in being the greatest and most fruitful of all international Conferences that had ever met in the lapse of centuries. But even if it is not so, the practical results already obtained are such that the Conference is never to be forgotten, and these results demonstrate that it has contributed more than any other to the commercial advancement of America and to the progress of a noble and generous idea, universal pacification.

"Some of the Central American nations-Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras-gave their approval to all the labors of the Mexican Conference. The United States ratified the convention for the exchange of publications. The Customs Congress was held in New York in January, 1903; and in December, 1902, and October, 1905, the Sanitary Congress assembled, their labors being so beneficial that a new Convention was signed in conformity with the context of that of Paris to regulate all that refers to sanitary service and quarantines. But the task of the Conference in Mexico, which is destined to perpetuate its name in history, is the convention on obligatory arbitration of pecuniary claims, which, having been ratified by the Congress of the United States, by that of Mexico and by Peru, will soon be also approved by all the other nations of this hemisphere.

“To understand the wide scope of this convention be it sufficient to consider that, rotwithstanding the gigantic efforts made in all the civilized world to renounce force to obtain redress and succeed in having an era of peace and concord, this is the first time the principle which the great Argentine jurist, Carlos Calvo, enunciated, that the collection of pecuniary claims should never be made by force, has been consecrated in a general and obligatory form.

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“They brought and propagated in the New World all the virtues that go to make a man a true and worthy image of His Maker; and from such seed have developed a nation that in due course of time has come to be, not only a great world power, but the sacred asylum for all liberty-loving people.

“Great as is your material strength, astonishing as is your progress and the expansion of your industries and commerce, and amazing as is the accumulation of wealth and the well-being of the great majority of the people of the United States, nothing appeals with greater force to my mind than the practical working of the principles of equality and freedom, limited only by law, which fact I consider as the mainspring of all your advancements and power.

“When I contemplate the humblest citizen enjoying all the privileges and having open to him all the honors and the rights that in some other nations are the patrimony of the few, I can not help exclaim that American democracy is truly the consummation of the conquests of liberty and justice in the world.

“Now, on the other hand, if you please, remember for a moment how different was the material that came to colonize and settle the other portions of the American continent. When you consider that the men who conquered Peru and Mexico were nothing but adventurers seeking for gold and the satisfaction of their hunger for wealth, that after vanquishing and destroying highly organized nations submitted their inhabitants to serfdom, that the history of the three centuries of Spanish dominion is only a long chain of despotism and tyranny, you readily understand that when the Latin-American Republics, after many years of fighting for their freedom, succeeded at last and made themselves independent through their own exertions, their traditions and their education was far from suited for the proper exercise of free and orderly government.

“That is why during the early times of their independence, and some of them even up to this day, had to pass through a dark period of formation and revolutions.

"Fortunately the majority of the republics in that section that is really South America have entered firmly upon an era of peaceful development of their natural resources, under well-established governments.

“ Bolivia had also an epoch of misfortunes, and after sad experiences that cost her the loss of much of ber territory is now earnestly seeking to develop her great wealth and future.

- Her mineral resources are second to none, and the Bolivian mountains contain a wonderful variety of minerals. The silver mines of Potosí are famous in the history of the world, and have contributed a large share to its wealth.

“Silver, copper, antimony, bismuth, gold, and at present tin, are the principal of many minerals that her territory produces.

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Salt oxbides were shipped to the number of 1,662,677, as compared with 1,361,028 in the preceding year, of which the United Kingdom took 133, 718; the United States, 151,643; France, 156,460; Germany, 918,780; Belgium, 291,809; Italy, 6,767, and other countries, 3,500.

Dry horsehides were shipped to the number of 142,354, as compared with 95,289 in the preceding year, the United States taking 10,594; the United Kingdom, 1,019; Germany, 120,221, and Belgium, 10,520. Salt horsehides shipped numbered 117,500, as compared with 133,778 in the preceding year, of which the United States took 6,633; Germany, 56,422, and Belgiuni, 54,445.

Sheepskins exported numbered 61,494, as compared with 76,280 in 1904, the United States taking 4,673; the United Kingdom, 4,811; France, 40,525; Germany, 6,222; Italy, 3,989; Belgium, 983; Brazil, 151, and other countries, 140.

The number of bales of hair shipped was 6,126, as compared with 4,597 in 1904, of which the United Kingdom took 276, the United States 1,100, France 156, Germany 1,220, Belgium 1,350, Italy 782, and other countries 1,242.

Tallow was shipped to the amount of 28,761 pipes, 99,557 casks, and 16,686 hogsheads, as against 31,284 pipes, 64,397 casks, and 32,945 hogsheads in 1904. In 1905 the export destinations of this commodity were as follows: The United Kingdom, 6,374 pipes, 55,539 casks, and 7,603 hogsheads; France, 915 pipes, 1,803 casks, and 700 hogsheads; Germany, 924 pipes, 11,521 casks, and 1,033 hogsheads; Belgium, 1,243 pipes, 4,977 casks, and 195 hogsheads; Italy, 11,703 pipes, 7,642 casks, and 5,878 hogsheads; Brazil, 2,380 pipes, 7,103 casks, and 480 hogsheads; and other countries, 5,222 pipes, 10,672 casks, and 797 hogsheads.

Goatskins to the number of 12,695 bales were shipped, as compared with 7,386 bales the preceding year, of which the United States took 3,277, the United Kingdom 1,144, France 2,894, Germany 239, Belgium 5,136, and Italy 5.

Wool was shipped to the amount of 466,693 bales, as compared with 396,928 bales in the preceding year, of which the United Kingdom took 39,406, the United States 44,919, France 178,448, Germany 142,462, Belgium 48,700, Italy 5,391, Brazil 6, and other countries 7,361.

The number of frozen wethers exported was 3,468,043, as compared with 3,673,778 in 1904, the United Kingdom taking 3,197,968, Italy 157, and South Africa 269,918.

Wheat shipments amounted to 2,866,954 tons, as compared with the amount of 2,405,117 tons the previous year, of which the United Kingdom took 422,879, France 25,199, Germany 219,826, Belgium 281,753, Italy 33,293, South Africa 18,140, Brazil 201,803, orders 1,291,725, and other countries, 372,336.

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Reducing these to paper, we get a deficiency of $116,000 on the ordinary account.

The statement submitted to Congress by the Finance Minister in May last provided for an ordinary expenditure of $23,945,678 gold and $116,142,978 paper, so that Congress has increased the amounts by $202,880 gold and $8,984,065 paper.

INTERNAL REVENUE IN 1905.

The receipts from Argentine inland taxes during 1905, amounted to $39,053,435 national money and $71,443 gold. Deducting from the former amount the taxes on sugar and natural wines, which have been suppressed, the amount received in paper money for existing taxes was $36,365,592, and the receipts from the same taxes in 1904 were less by $1,884,543 national money and $13,379 gold. Nevertheless, the Minister of Finance has estimated next year's revenue from this source at more than $3,500,000 less than has been actually received, and his estimate of the customs duties is $8,500,000 gold less than the amount received.

The receipts from the post and telegraph offices amounted to $7,842,000 national money, being $1,600,000 less than the estimates, but the revenue of the department yielded only a small surplus, the expenditure having been $7,781,000 national money. This is explained by the vast distances over which the mail is carried, and the telegraph wires extend in sparsely inhabited Provinces and national territory.

The custom-house of the capital of Argentine Republic produced in 1905, $15,992,887 gold, and as such receipts represented about 90 per cent of those of all the custom-houses, the total amount received must have been about $51,000,000, being $4,300,000 more than the receipts of 1904 and $10,000,000 more than the budget estimates. The differences would have been greater but for the fact that the merchants have of late cleared as little dutiable merchandise as possible, in anticipation of reductions of duties which took effect on February 4, 1906, and the exportation of wool, hides, skins, etc., has also been delayed because of the suppression of the export duty of 4 per cent thereon.

PORT MOVEMENT OF BUENOS AYRES, CALENDAR YEAR 1905.

The Buenos Ayres “ Ilandels-Zeitung” (“Revista Financiera y Comercial") publishes the following figures showing the export movement of Buenos Ayres during the calendar year 1905:

Belgium:

Wheat Corn.. Bran Oats Barley Oil grain Linseed.. Turnip seed. Birdseed. Peanuts Hay Malt. Casein Flour Flax cakes. Guano Minerals Quebracho extract Oxhides-

Dry.

Salted Horsehides

Dry.

Salted Various hides Sheepskins Hair.. Bones Horns Wool Tallow Oils and grease Conserved meat Conserved tongue Meat broth Meat extract Meat preparations. Cattle Horses Hogs.. Sheep. Mules

Feathers Brazil:

Wheat Corn. Bran Oats Barley. Linseed Birdseed Seeds Нау. Flour. Quebracho extract

Brazil-Continued. Oxhides-

Dry.

Salted Sheepskins Hair Bones Wool Tallow Oils and grease Jerked beef Conserved tongue. Cattle. Horses. Hogs Sheep Mules Goats

Asses England:

Wheat Corn. Bran Oats Barley: Linseed Turnip seed Birdseed Cotton seed. Seeds Peanuts Peanut cake. Linseed cake Flax cakes Hay Casein Flour. Guano. Minerals Glycerine. Lasterina. Quebracho extract Quebracho in rolls Cotton. Molasses. Oxhides-

Dry.

Salted Various hides Sheepskins Hair Bones Intestines Horns Wool Tallow

41, 619 3,725 2,667

10 13 88 571

2 10, 203 95, 991

760

510 2, 349

150 1, 628

60 7, 806

528 10, 259 10, 412 Quantity.

.tons..

do... .do.. .do. .do.. .do.. .do. do. do.. .do... do... do.. .do... head.. .do...

do.. .kilos..

333

582 54, 106

2,787 21,891

784 700 853

106 6,568

do. .do. do. .do.. .do... ..head.. ..do... ..kilos..

43, 911 2,595

289 1,545

11 148

4 352 3, 012 3,099

.tons.. do.... do... do.. do... do.. .do... .do. .do.

do. .do.. .do.. do.. .do.... do.. do.. .do. .do.

32, 841 93, 05) 19, 413

809

516 44, 591 1,677 2, 268

62 373

30 1, 137

666 3,423 398

2 11

.do. ..do.

do. .do.... .do.. .do ..do. .do....

1,364

15 512 378

1 128 283 25

England-Continued.

Oils and grease. Blood, dry. Butter. Conserved meat. Conserved tongue Meat broth Meat extract Jerked beer. Frozen beef quarters. Frozen cattle intestines Frozen mutton. Frozen sheep intestines. Frozen meat.. Cattle. Horses. Mules

Feathers France:

Wheat Corn.. Bran Oats Barley. Oil gruin Linseed Turnip seed Birdseed Seeds Hay Casein. Flour.. Flax cakes Peanuts Guano. Minerals Tannin Quebracho-

Extract.

Logs. Oxhides

Dry.

Salted Various hideg Sheepskins Hair.. Bones Horns Wool Tallow Oils and grease. Bloed, dry. Intestines Conserved meal.. Conserved tongue Jerked beef. Cattle. Horses.

Feathers. Germany:

Wheat. Corn Bran Barley Oats. Linseed Turnip acert Cotton seed. Birdseed Seeds. Oil grain Linseed cakes Flax takes Hay Casein. Guano. Flour. Tannin. Quebracho-

Extract

Logs.. Minerals Sugar.. Mut. Peanuts

do. do. .do..

do.. .do... do... .do. .do.

do. .do. do. do.. do.. .do. do.. head.. .do.... .kilos..

Germany-Continued.

Lasterina. Oxhides-

Dry.

Salted Horsehides

Dry

Salted Various hides Shecpskins. Hair. Bones Horns Wool Tallow Oils and grease. Intestines Butter.. Conserved meat.. Conserved tongue Meat broth. Horses.. Mules

Feathers. Italy:

Whent Corn Bran Oats. Barley. Linseed Bird seed Seeds Peanuts Flour. Hay Quebracho-

Extract

Logs. Cotton Minerals Oxhides-

Iry.

Salted Horsehides, dry Various hides Sheepskins. Hair. Bones Horns Wool Tallow Intestines Conserved meat. Conserved tongue. Frozen beef quarters. Frozen mutton. Horses Cattle

Feathers. Netherlands:

Wheat Corn Braun Oil grain Linseed Turnip seed Birdseed Peanuts Casein. Guano. Flour. Quebracho-

Extract

Logs. TTorns Tullow Oils and grease

Sheep: South Africa:

Wheat Corn. Bran Onts. Linseed..

765 2,005

601 18, 350

81 1,686

352 54, 593

428 1, 272 1,287

do.... .do.... .do.... .do.. .do.. .do. ..do.

do. .do.

do.. .do.. .do..

117

31 1,624

324 400

87 1,176 6,719 394

.do.... .do....

head.. ..do... .kilos..

170 426 390

33 9, 410 1,033 1,219

1, 493 17,906

4,722 1,693 220 56

20 523 1,661

200 567

900 6,325 4,979 3,979

2,369 2,771 2, 090 1,083

South Africa–Continued. Birdseed

.tons.. Linseed cake

..do.... Flax cakes

.do.. Flour..

.do. Butter

..do.... Hay

.do.. Conserved meat

.do.. Conserved tongue.

.do. Frozen meat

.do. Frozen beef quarters do. Frozen cattle intestines.....do.. Frozen mutton intestines...do... Jerked beef.

do.. Tallow

..do. Cattle

.head.. Sheep

.do.. Horses.

.do. Mules.

.do. Asses

.do.... Hogs..

.do.... Spain: Wheat.

tons.. Corn

.do. Bran.

.do. Oats

do.. Linseed

.do.... Birdseed

.do... Hay

.do.. Casein.

do.. Guano

.do.... Flour

do.... OxhidesDry

do.... Salted

.do.. Horsehides, salted.

do. Various hides.

do.. Sheepskins

do. Hair

do.... Bones

do.. Horns

do. Wool

do.. Tallow

.do. Intestines

.do... Jerked beef.

do.. Cattle...

head. Feathers

kilos.. United States: Linseed

.tons.. Birdseed

do... Casein Guano.

.do.. Sugar.

do.... Minerals

do.... QuebrachoExtract.

do.... In rolls

.do.... OxhidesDry.

do.... Salted

do.... Horsehides Dry.

do.... Salted

.do. Various hides.

.do. Sheepskins

.do.... Hair.

do.... Bones

do... Horns

do.. Wool

do. Intestines

do.

152, 253 150, 200 1,588

96 1, 462 25, 440

155

89 993 342 30

20 1,177

5 415 149

1 800 77

MOVEMENT OF THE PORT OF ROSARIO IN 1905.

During the year 1905 Rosario exported 2,237,574,485 kilos of divers products, as follows: Sugar, 1,327,267; bran, 33,969,971; middlings, 17,683,549; cow horns, 147,106; birdseed, 913,672; borax, 764,285; dry cattle hides, 4,698,549; salt cattle bides, 5,723,085; dry colt skins, 65,413; salt colt skins, 8,308; goatskins, 459,310; sheepskins, 85,319; br.73-11.97: es. 175.577; bones, 1,364,581; flour, 500231: nl. 3. maize, 984. N.*); copper ore, 62.9-: iron ore 11.65i: lad ore. 11.90 has 29.978,411: quebracho word, 124,131.--2 linani. 215.972.719; seed, 162,570; tallow, 37,435; wboat, ka 1, (12.37; linseed cakes, 19.94; cow hoofs, 77,962; gum, 1,230; trarley, 417.-15; rye, 45.6); nabo seed, 1,360,756; potatoes, 8,134; honey, 34); anise, 2-3; peanuts, 457,634; dried meat, 274,94; skinn, various classes, 18.15; quebracho extract, 3,392,750; molasses, 62,000, and Cadiz salt, 67,439. Ocean steamers to the number of 845 and 97 ocean failers entered the port.

IMPROVEMENTS AT BAHIA BLANCA.

A report published in “ The South American Journal” for February 10, 1906, concerning improvements in progress and completed at Bahia Blanca, states that the Great Southern Railway Company's mole at Ingeniero White has now been extended, and there is berth room alongside for 12 large ocean-going steamers, with electric and hydraulic cranes for the loading and discharging of cargoes. The accommodation, however, is quite inadequate, as at present there are 20 ocean-going vessels alongside their wharf, there being sometimes over 30 steamers waiting their turn to load. The Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway ('ompany have also a mole about 2 miles higher up the estuary than the Southern Railway wharf, at a point called Port Galvan, where they have excellent accommodation for 2 ocean-going vessels, loading or discharging by means of electric cranes. They are at present extending their wharfage accommodation, and will shortly have room for 0 or ocean going steamers. Two British houses from Buenos Ayres have opened coal deposits at this port, and homeward-going steamers can now le supplied instead of calling at Monterideo for that purple

The Pacitie Comune have been running a monthly line of cargo Nemers inum Liverpul callings at this port as well as at Port Madryn ad sume of the ecker South Angabe perts where trade is just beginning to le derni The lise un south American Line is

enige msestrerery three weeks.

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Salt oxbides were shipped to the number of 1,662,677, as compared with 1,361,028 in the preceding year, of which the United Kingdom took 133,718; the United States, 151,643; France, 156,460; Germany, 918,780; Belgium, 291,809; Italy, 6,767, and other countries, 3,500.

Dry horsehides were shipped to the number of 142,354, as compared with 95,289 in the preceding year, the United States taking 10,594; the United Kingdom, 1,019; Germany, 120,221, and Belgium, 10,520. Salt horsebides shipped numbered 117,500, as compared with 133,778 in the preceding year, of which the United States took 6,633; Germany, 56,422, and Belgiuni, 54,415.

Tallow was shipped to the amount of 28,761 pipes, 99,557 casks, and 16,686 hogsheads, as against 31,28+ pipes, 64,397 casks, and 32,945 hogsheads in 1904. In 1905 the export destinations of this commodity were as follows: The United Kingdom, 6,374 pipes, 55,539 casks, and 7,603 hogsheads; France, 915 pipes, 1,803 casks, and 700 hogsheads; Germany, 924 pipes, 11,521 casks, and 1,033 hogsheads; Belgium, 1,213 pipes, 4,977 casks, and 195 hogsheads; Italy, 11,703 pipes, 7,642 casks, and 5,878 hogsheads; Brazil, 2,380 pipes, 7,403 casks, and 480 hogsheads; and other countries, 5,222 pipes, 10,672 casks, and 797 hogsheads.

Wool was shipped to the amount of 466,693 bales, as compared with 396,928 bales in the preceding year, of which the United Kingdom took 39,406, the United States 41,919, France 178,448, Germany 142,462, Belgium 48,700, Italy 5,391, Brazil 6, and other countries 7,361.

The number of frozen wethers exported was 3,468,043, as compared with 3,673,778 in 1904, the United Kingdom taking 3,197,968, Italy 157, and South Africa 269,918.

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PORT MOVEMENT OF BUENOS AYRES, CALENDAR YEAR 1905.

The Buenos Ayres “ Hand Is-Zeitung” (“* Revista Financiera y Comercial") publishes the following figures showing the export movement of Buenos Ayres during the calendar year 1905:

148,652 89,699 11, 801 8,907

96 50, 323

244 4,133

10 412 36 21 218 2,084

445

951 23,527 1,931 277

71 225 4,003 22, 641

294 790

510 2,349

150 1,628

60 7, 806

528 10, 259 10, 412

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During the year 1905 Rosario exported 2,237,574,485 kilos of divers products, as follows: Sugar, 1,327,267; bran, 33,969,971; middlings, 17,683,549; cow horns, 147,106; birdseed, 913,672; borax, 764,285; dry cattle hides, 4,698,549; salt cattle hides, 5,723,085; dry colt skins, 65,413; salt colt skins, 8,308; goatskins, 459,310; sheepskins, 85,319; horsehair, 356,318; calfskins, 11,937; claws, 175,577; bones, 4,364,581; flour, 5,852,318; wool, 3,239,085; maize, 984,000,000; copper ore, 52,958; iron ore, 191,851; lead ore, 11,940; hay, 29,978,411; quebracho wood, 129,191,882; linseed, 245,972,719; seed, 162,570; tallow, 37,435; w heat, 881,002,857; linseed cakes, 49,984; cow hoofs, 77,962; gum, 1,330; barley, 407,815; rye, 45,000; nabo seed, 1,360,756; potatoes, 8,130; honey, 360; anise, 285; peanuts, 457,634; dried meat, 274,944; skins, various classes, 18,445; quebracho extract, 3,392,750; molasses, 52,000, and Cadiz salt, 67,439. Ocean steamers to the number of 845 and 97 ocean sailers entered the port.

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" The output from Africa, as a whole, has increased but little, and from the West Coast has diminished, in this case also chiefly owing to the destructive methods of collection in vogue among natives. Indeed, on this account, some authorities consider that the African output of wild rubber is more likely to decrease than increase.

"Were the industry in the future to be entirely dependent upon wild rubber the outlook would be black indeed, but fortunately it has now been conclusively proved in Ceylon and in the Malay Peninsula that the cultivation of the rubber tree as an estate product is not only possible but a very profitable industry, and the output of rubber from plantation-grown trees raised in nurseries is rapidly increasing each year. At present, it is true, the production from all plantations in Ceylon, India, Assam, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Central America, and Mexico form but a very small proportion of the whole world's yearly output, yet a few years should see a remarkable change in this.

“Before dealing with the Ceylon and Malasian rubber-planting industries more particularly, it may not be out of place here to note how the Brazilian and Mexican rubber trees came to be introduced into Asia. In Ceylon attention was first drawn to rubber-yielding trees when blight stamped out the island's coffee industry, and the Kew authorities sent out, in Wardian cases, young plants of the Para ruhber tree (Ilevea brasiliensis), the Central American tree (Castilloa elástica), and the Ceará (Manihot glaziovii). Attention was then mainly paid to the Ceará, and as this variety was unsuccessful in the early years, rubber was neglected. Later, certain men had marked success with Para, with the result that there has been a rush into that variety; though it is found that at certain elevations and in certain districts the Castilloa thrives best. Now, again, also, Ceará is being planted on some estates.

* The first Para trees arrived in Ceylon from Kew in August, 1876. Ninety per cent of the 1,900 plants sent arrived safely and were planted in the low-country Botanic Gardens at Henaratgoda. These trees fourished and soon produced abundant crops of seeds. Plants were raised and distributed to officials in Ceylon, and some were sent to India, and later seeds were sold to planters and others in Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, etc. Thus the trees in Henaratgoda Gardens are famous as the parents of practically all the Para rubber trees in Asia, and in other colonies in Africa, Fiji, etc.

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When Weldon's process was introduced in 1868, 54,000 tons of highgrade manganese ore were needed in a single year; when the process became general by regeneration of the manganese solution the consumption sank to only 7,000 tons yearly. The consumption was further reduced by the introduction of Deacon's process. The gold and glass industries are regular consumers of the richer and purer manganese ores. This consumption is, however, very unimportant when compared with that of the iron and steel industries. For the purposes mentioned only a few deposits can be considered, the value of the ore depending on the effective amount of superoxide of manganese. Of the 48,000 tons employed in Germany in 1903 only about 2,000 tons were directly delivered to chemical works.

For the iron and steel industry two sorts of manganese ores principally have to be considered:

1. Manganese ore proper, with about 50 per cent manganese, little phosphorus, and silica.

2. Iron ores containing manganese in very varying proportions.

The world's production at the present time is estimated to be 900,000 tons. In 1900 the consumption of manganese ore was 592,596 tons; 25 per cent of this quantity was mined in the province of Huelva, Spain. It is also stated that in 1901 Brazil produced 98,828 tons, or about oneninth of the total output.

In the last years India, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Spain have produced noteworthy quantities, so that the total production amounted to more rather than less than 900,000 tons. Germany mined 49,812 tons in 1902, which did not satisfy the requirements. That country is therefore dependent on foreign importation of manganese, which, after iron ore, is the most important raw material in the steel industry.

The other most important steel producers, especially England and the United States, depend also on other countries. In 1899 Russia exported to England 118,000 tons of high-percentage manganese ores. The United States imports the ore from Chile, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, etc., and in the yards of the blast furnaces in the United States ore of every origin is to be found.

Brazil is making rapid strides in the shipment of manganese, the total for 1904 reaching 208,260 long tons. It was only until 1894 that the ores were first seriously mined. The ore of the Minas Geraes district is said to be a very pure black dioxide, containing from 50 to 55 per cent of metallic manganese, and only traces of phosphorus. The best varieties occur between layers of impure earthy ores of iron and maganese, lying between beds of limestone, and it is the association with these beds that generally indicates purity in the manganese ore. The beds have been worked to over 120 yards from the surface, and show no material change in character. The ore is a hard mineral,

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The value of the ore does not only depend on the percentage of manganese, but also on the percentage of harmful constituents, phosphorus and silica.

The ores from Nazareth (Brazil), Panama, Miguel Burnier (Brazil), Santiago (Cuba), Coquimbo (Chile), Les Cabesses (France), Cassandra (Turkey), are considered as the purest. Ores reckoned as rich in phosphorus, up to 0.28 per cent, are from Tschiatura and Nicopol, the Indian, and from Queluz-Lafayette (Brazil). The ores from QueluzLafayette, Panama, Coquimbo, Les Cabesses, Indian, and Tschiatura contain a small percentage of silicic acid. The Spanish (Huelva), the Italian (Liguria), the Russian (Nicopol), and the Turkish are generally richer in silica.

The cost of the ore depends, naturally, on the conditions of mining and transport. In the Russian mines winding only costs 5 to 6 kopeks, while the expense of transport to the port of Poti is 35 kopeks per pud. In Brazil mining costs amount to 6,000 reis per ton. Demaret gives the mining and transport costs in the neighborhood of Queluz (Brazil) at

Reis. Mining

3, 350 Transport on mine railway

1, 830 Charge of trucks....

200 Transport to Rio de Janeiro.

8, 300 Loading ships..

5, 500

The costs of Poti ore, on the other hand, are as follows:

Cost of working... Transport from the mine to Tschiatura.. Transport from Tschiatura to Sharopan Transport from Sharopan to Poti, unloading, stores, etc.. Freight to England, sampling, assurance.

Francs.

4. 75 5.00 17. 70

5. 00 16. 55

REDUCTION OF IMPORT DUTY ON SUGAR.

With reference to the provision in the Brazilian Budget Law of 1906 authorizing the Government to reduce the import duty on sugar, it is stated that the duty on sugars of all kinds imported into Brazil from countries that do not give bounties has been reduced to 200 reis per kilogram.

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“Art. 3. In the second group are included the same pieces of earth or flint described in article 1, but having embossment, relief, orraments, or decorations of whatever kind. Pieces of this group shall pay (0.15 (80.069) per kilogram.

“ART. 4. To the third group belong the said pieces for table service, illumination, and other domestic uses which are of porcelain, but which have no ornaments, relief, open work (embossment), nor decorations--that is to say, which are entirely plain merchandise of this group-shall pay $0.20 ($0.093) per kilogram.

"ART. 5. To group 4 belong the pieces of porcelain aforesaid which have ornaments or decorations, whatever may be their number or quality. Merchandise of this group shall pay $0.25 (50.116) per kilogram.

“ART. 6. The pieces of groups 1 and 2 differ from those of 3 and 4 in that besides being clearer and more shiny (glossy) they are translucent, a property wanting in the latter.

“ART. 7. The pieces designed for the same uses, which are of white paste or of copper-colored granite, that called Japan ware, and the black, of whatever kind, shall be assessed as earthenware, or flint (groups 1 and 2), according as they are or are not worked, painted, embossed, or enameled, or in any way ornamented.

"ART. 8. The duties here decreed are not subject to the 50 per cent (increase) fixed by decree of April 27, 1901."

SALUBRITY OF CLIMATE AT SAN JOSE.

In a letter addressed to the Minister of Costa Rica at Washington by F. OSKAR MARTIN, assistant engineer Isthmian Canal Commission, the following account of the San Jose climate is given as demonstrating the availability of that section of Costa Rica as a health resort, with special reference to employees of the Isthmian Canal:

“Of course the health resort should be in the neighborhood of San Jose, or at nearly the same altitude, near some of the other cities-as Carthago, Heredia, or Alhajuela. Here are some records of temperature of the Isthmus of Panama, San Jose, and, for comparison, of Washington, D. C.:

Arerage temperature. (All in Fahrenheit degrees.)

* But it is not the climate alone which makes a residence in San Jose so desirable; it is the Costa Ricans themselves, who, with their hospirace.

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vessel as the travelers. By luggage is meant articles intended for personal use, such as clothing, boots and shoes, bedding, harness, arms and instruments necessary to the profession of the traveler although they may not have been used. Each traveler, with exception of women and children, may introduce up to one-half kilogram of manufactured tobacco. Travelers who arrive in transit may leave on deposit in the custom-house such packages as they wish, and request their reshipment or dispatch whenever it may be convenient.

2. Articles for diplomatic agents accredited to the Government of Ecuador, when these articles arrive for the use and consumption of the said officials, up to an amount whose value shall not exceed for the first year $10,000 and $2,000 for each of the following years, and provided always that the countries represented in Ecuador accord reciprocity, and provided that the ministers and agents in addition to their functions do not exercise the profession of merchants. The exception will include likewise all additional duties.

3. Articles imported on account, or with the authority of the Government for a useful purpose or for public ornamentation subject to the authority of the Minister of Finance.

4. The natural products of Peru of lawful commerce and the introduction of which is not prohibited in Ecuador, when imported overland. This exception shall remain in force so long as Ecuadorian products enjoy the same exemption in Peru. As soon as reciprocity ceases, this exemption shall also cease in Ecuador.

Peruvian salt imported overland is excepted, and shall pay 1 centavo per kilogram.

5. The following articles: Fertilizers; impure carbolic acid; amianthus or asbestos; live animals; fire extinguishers and their charges; plows and their parts; commercial advertisenients on paper, or cardboard, or pamphlets, and articles which may not be for sale when on them and in plain sight is printed, engraved, or lithographed that they are presents from manufactories or commercial houses; framework, spars, columns, doors, windows, lattices, and stairs of iron for building houses; abacus for schools; atlases for educational purposes; disinfecting apparatus; fire engines and their accessories for fire companies; empty bottles in casks, cases, or bales, provided that when they arrive otherwise packed they shall pay the duty applicable thereto; burnt tiles; vessels rigged or in parts and the machinery therefor, even when imported in different ships; iron buoys; coal; cement, such as is called Roman cement, for masonry work; crucibles; creoline; writing books; astronomical, geographical, and hydrographical maps; small vessels, except canoes; railway plant of all kinds and accessories; astronomical and geographical globes; birds' eggs; printing presses and accessories; fire bricks; printed books, not otherwise specified, and music in manuscript, printed, or lithographed; fresh fruit; sewing machines; washing machines; typewriting machines; agricultural machines and machines generally for all kinds of industries, with their parts and renewal pieces, as also boilers; gold coin, which shall pay no kind of additional impost; samples of fabrics, small articles of no value, and the parts of articles that are only used and sold in pairs, provided that the interested parties permit them to be rendered untit for use; gold, in dust or bars; timbers, for masts and spars of vessels; common paper, for newspapers; live plants; roofing slates; slates and slate pencils; iron and steel bridges; lithographing stones; lithographing presses; iron and steel pillars; windmills; rails; plowshares; tower clocks; silver, in bars; saltpeter, unrefined, for fertilizer; serum and vaccine virus; sulphate of copper; silicate of soda and potash; life-preservers; seeds of all kinds; roofing tiles; telescopes; tiles and pipes of earthenware; type and ink of all kinds, for printing; lithographing ink; refractory earth; steel tubing for hydraulic motors; metallic oxides, for ceramic enamels; automobiles; lightning rods; eublimated sulphur; water filters and their spare parts.

The Executive may, with the consent of the Council of State, upon prior presentation of estimates, contracts, and plans in their respective cases, permit the importation free of duty of articles absolutely necessary to municipalities for lighting or for any other public use, etc., whether the work be executed by contract or directly by them. Should the work be performed by contractors, they must furnish a bond to guarantee the payment of duty in case the work should not be executed.

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ART. 25. The following articles belong to class 23, and shall pay 70 centavos per kilogram of net weight:

Empty shells or caps for firearms; woolen cassimeres and cloth, even with woof of silk; woolen gloves; cotton goods with silk woof; woolen articles of all kinds, with or without mixture, provided not mixed with silk, except those specified in other schedules.

ART. 26. The following articles belong to class 27, and shall pay 80 centavos per kilogram of net weight:

Needles and knitting needles; spur rowels; cotton-cloth fans.

ART. 27. The following articles belong to class 25, and shall pay 1 sucre per kilogram of gross weight:

Acetic acid; leaf tobacco.

ART. 28. The following articles belong to class 26, and shall pay 1 sucre per kilogram of net weight:

Brackets and curtain poles of any material; saffron; hooks and buttons, other than metal, for shirts; picture nails; fencing masks, corselets, and gloves; thimbles, other than gold, silver, or platinum; stereoscopes, kinetoscopes, magic lanterns, and other similar articles, and views for the same; dancing pumps other than silk; flower stands, card cases, center pieces, and other similar articles of any kind, of metal, for hall decorations; hammocks of all kinds not combined with silk; gold or silver leaf for gilding; fur cloaks; powder puffs; gilded or silvered articles other than metal and not otherwise specially scheduled; empty bottles, such as are used for holding medicine; daggers, with or without sheaths; steel pens; plans; rosaries not combined with gold, silver, or platinum; wooden or horn vessels; sheaths for daggers; woolen goods with silk flowers, stripes, or trimmings; printed or lithographed cards or labels.

ART. 29. The following articles belong to class 27, and shall pay 1 sucre and 20 centavos per kilogram of net weight:

Albums; spectacles and eyeglasses of all kinds, also their cases even when imported separately; coral, crude or manufactured; corsets; curtains of lace or guipure, of cotton, linen, or wool; sewing cases, dressing cases, and other similar articles of wood, or covered with plush, silk, leather, or other material; shoes of all kinds, except rubber; paper chromos and pictures, unframed; cotton, linen, or woolen laces; breech-loading rifles, revolvers, and pistols; hat frames, of any material, for ladies or children; bonnets, caps, and toques, utrimmed; games of all kinds, not specially mentioned; printed books bound in tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, or their imitations, or inlaid in any manner; passementerie and other similar cotton or linen trimmings; umbrellas, sunshades, and parasols, finished or not, combined with silk; leggings, other than rubber; watches, other than gold, silver, or platinum; lace or guipure fabrics of cotton, linen, or wool; wearing apparel of linen or lined with cotton or linen, such as shirts, chemises, trousers, drawers, suits, coats, vests, etc., except knitted articles, which are specially classed at the rate of 30 centavos; cotton and linen frets; bird cages.

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Art. 36. The following articles belong to class 34, and shall pay 4 sucres per kilogram, net weight:

Fans, not specially mentioned; imitation jewelry of any material; silk cravats; jewelry cases, when imported separately; masks; opium; tobacco, manufactured.

Art. 37. The following articles belong to class 35 and shall pay 5 sucres per kilogram, net weight:

Natural or artificial ermine; articles made of natural or artificial hair; boas made of feather or similar material; walking canes and umbrellas, with or without rapiers, and other similar articles, having gold handles or trimmings; depilatories; essence of aniseed; essence for the manufacture of liquors, such as cognac, rum, gin, wine, etc.; manufactured silver, except articles of silver specially mentioned in other schedules; silver watches; tinctures for the skin, hair, or beard.

ART. 38. The following articles belong to class 36 and shall pay 8 sucres per kilogram, net weight:

Overcoats and dresses made of or trimmed with furs; ready made silk dresses.

ART. 39. The following articles belong to class 37 and shall pay 20 sucres per kilogram, net weight:

Movements for watches; manufactured gold and platinum, except articles made of these metals specially mentioned in other schedules; gold watches.

ART. 10. The following articles belong to class 38 and shall pay 60 sucres per kilogram, net weight:

Precious stones, set or unset.

Art. 41. In the cases mentioned below the following surcharges on imports shall be collected at the custom-houses:

1. Forty-three per cent to be applied to the payment of interest and redemption of the bonds of the Southern Railroad.

2. Ten per cent to be applied to the payment of the internal debt.

3. Seven per cent to be applied to the payment of the Southern Railroad debt, not including the receipts of this tax in the Provinces of Esmeraldas, Manabí, and El Oro, which are set aside “for the fire department at the capital of the first-mentioned Province, for irrigation purposes in the second Province, and for irrigation purposes in the cantons of Marchala and Psaje, in the third of said Provinces.”

4. Twenty per cent for participes or benevolent or educational establishments or societies.

5. Six per cent for wharfage dues. 6. Four per cent for the construction of the custom-house at Guayaquil.

7. Ten per cent for the benefit of the clergy and for the purposes of publie worship, according to legislative decree of October 24, 1899, and for the payment of the deficit of the ecclesiastical budget in conformity with the law of public worship, and any balance which may be due for pensions of public worship up to December 31, 1904.

ART. 42. On all goods imported into the Republic there shall be collected at the custom-houses 2 centavos per cubic foot.

On lead, iron, and other metals there shall be collected 5 centavos per 50 kilograms.

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Art. 65. The duty prescribed in the foregoing article shall not be collected on national or foreign war vessels, whalers, and damaged vessels, provided they do not land merchandise of any description.

ART. 66. No vessel coming from abroad exceeding 30 tons burden can enter or leave the Guayaquil River without a pilot, and doing so shall pay pilot dues as far as Puna Island.

This provision does not apply to national vessels, which shall only pay said duty when the service of a pilot is requested.

ART. 67. The pilot duties shall be levied according to the draft of the vessels, computed in English feet, viz:

From Puna to Guayaquil, $2.50 per foot. This duty is the same for entrance and clearance. War vessels are exempted from the payment of this duty.

ART. 68. The Board of Health shall receive as an emolument $5 for every national or foreign vessel proceeding from a foreign port and $2 for every crew roll cleared. Only vessels of less than 30 tons burden and national vessels carrying on the coastwise trade shall be excepted from the payment of this duty.

ART. 69. All vessels landing merchandise shall pay 50 centavos of a sucre for each ton, weight or measure, as wharfage dues.

ART. 70. National or nationalized vessels shall pay clearance dues as follows: Tonnage: 10 to 20 tons..

$1.00 21 to 50 tons

2.00 51 to 100 tons

5. 00 101 to 200 tons

10.00 201 to 300 tons

15.00 In excess of 301 tons..

20.00 Ships of less tonnage, river steamers, boats, and lighters used for the service of the port shall not be subject to nationalization dues, and the necessary documents shall be delivered to them gratuitously on legal stamped paper of the fourth class.

Transitory article: This tariff shall become effective on and after January 1, 1906.

THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC.

(Continued.) “A PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT AND HIS POLICIES. "Guatemala in order to fulfill its destiny as the country of the future must be assured of stable and progressive government, hospitable to foreign capital. To insure these things it is necessary to have the right man at the head of affairs. No one now questions that Guatemala possesses this advantage in the person of MANUEL ESTRADA CABRERA, whose term as President will not expire till 1911.

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“SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT EXPLAINED. “The Government of Guatemala is republican-democratic and representative-and the supreme power is exercised by three governmental branches, each independent of the others, called the legislative power,' the executive power,' and 'the judicial power.'

“ The legislative power is vested in a National Assembly, which consists of a single house composed of one deputy for each 20,000 inhabitants or fraction of that number exceeding 10,000. The deputies are elected by popular vote for four years, but one-half of the Assembly is renewed each two years, so that each time that it meets it contains an adequate number of experienced members. Annual sessions are held, lasting two months, beginning March 1, but they can be extended one month longer in case of necessity. For the transaction of business during its recesses the Assembly appoints seven of its members, who form a body called “The Permanent Commission.' This commission, as well as the executive, can call the Assembly to meet in extraordinary sessions.

“The executive power is exercised by the President of the Republic, who, for the transaction of public business, appoints six Ministers or Secretaries of State, who have charge of the portfolios of Foreign Relations, Government and Justice, the Treasury and Public Credit, War, Public Works, and Public Instruction.

“ There is also a Council of State, a purely advisory body, which is composed of the Cabinet Ministers and nine other members, of whom five are are appointed by the Assembly and four by the President. These appointments are for two years.

“The judicial power is exercised by the courts and judges of the Republic, organized as follows:

“ The Supreme Court of Justice, which sits at the capital of Guatemala and is composed of the president of the judicial power, four magistrates, and an attorney (fiscal).

“Six courts or tribunals of appeals composed of three magistrates, of whom one presides, and an attorney (tiscal). Three of these courts sit at the capital and one in each of the capitals of the Departments of Quezaltenango, Alta Verapaz, and Jalapa. The magistrates and attorneys are elected by popular vote.

“The judges of the Courts of First Instance, of whom there are six in the capital, three in Quezaltenango, two in San Marcos, and one in each of the remaining Departments of the Republic. These judges are appointed by the Executive from three names proposed by the Supreme Court of Justice.

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The details of the export trade for the periods under comparison show the following classification and figures:

Total gold Mexican silver coin. Foreign silver coin.. Silver in bars... Silver in other forms.

Total silver ... Antimony. Copper. Marble, rough Plumbago. Lead Zinc Other mineral products. Coffee.. Barks and roots, raw. Rubber Chicle.. Beans. Fruits, fresh Chick-peas. Guayule Other beans. Heniquen in fiber. Ixtie in fiber. Woods Corn Mulberry wood Dyewoods.. Grass.. Tobacco, leaf Vanilla Other vegetable products. Cattle Raw hides Other animal products. Sugar.. Flour, and cotton-seed paste. Hides, manufactured. Straw hats Tobacco, manufactured Other manufactured products Miscellaneous.

307, 780.00 21, 030.00

2, 268.00
217, 282.00

20.00 46, 208.80 101, 316.00 53, 071.00 46, 612. 80 125, 839.00

306, 203.00 8,948, 730. 85

30, 854.00

4,860.00 2, 137, 758, 00

21, 055.00

7,178.24 820, 730.94

3, 165.00 161, 935.54 162, 296. 20 207, 882.00

75, 029.55 979, 860.00

71, 039.50 71, 173.85 56,088.00 68. 083.00 257, 422.00 3,399.00

250.00 2, 891, 791.00

353, 275.00 201, 296.06

258.00 5, 238, 00 35,990. 92 163, 819.00

94.365.74 230, 757.00 263, 558. 90 249, 412.50 568, 026.98 51, 345. 75

45.00 63,364.00

390, 708. 96 10, 215, 288.86

73, 098.00

4,000.00 2,077, 626.67

76, 072. 99 148, 976. 11 1,978, 358.50

20, 147.00 298, 903. 68 227, 523.50 261, 210.82

108, 488.40 1,498, 168.00

11, 386.00

104, 324.00 10, 148, 662.00 1, 307, 590, 88 559,544.46 10, 809.00 17, 499.00 145, 956.85 705, 978.00

384, 662. 74 2,082, 970.99

407, 423.06 1, 291, 612.50 2, 234, 464.08

161, 405, 79 259, 726.00 115, 964.00

1,819, 911,00 391, 163.00 156, 492.00

9, 209, 68 1, 240.00 38, 982.00 185, 881.00 46, 241.00 77, 894.00 66,876. 13 91, 952. 00 530, 619.10

29,850. 47 435, 070.00 106, 501.00

08.00 13, 610.00 22, 343.00 38. 081.00 39,073. 13

18.00 8, 348, 036.00 1, 145, 306, 55 604, 614, 74 10, 865. 64 10, 383.00 333, 461.68 765, 955.00 646, 701.00 744,628. 00

225, 815.83 1,016, 713.00 1,735, 829.84

180, 471.18 716, 359.00 173, 201.00

189.00 54, 865. 60 87, 840.00 184, 246.55 156, 891. 05

27, 891.00 34, 020.25 23, 176.00 69, 959.62

77, 710.00 147, 507,79 112, 283.75 177,811.10

Following is a résumé of the valuations of Mexican imports during the periods under comparison with reference to their countries of origin:

Following is a résumé of the valuations of Mexican exports during the periods under comparison with reference to their countries of destination:

The collections at the custom-houses of the Republic of Mexico in December, 1905, are given below, exceeding the sum of $4,000,000:

The tariff of prices for public lands which will be in force during the fiscal year, 1906–7, in the various States of the Republic of Mexico is as follows: Aguascalientes $2. 20 | Puebla

The Department of Fomento states that during the last six months of the year 1905 over 281,317 hectares, or about 562,634 acres, of Governmental lands were transferred to no less than 354 persons, or, at any rate, in that number of lots, for which the National Treasury received $274,160.48.

TOBACCO CROP. The tobacco crop of the Republic of Mexico in the year 1906 is expected to reach 11,500,000 kilograms, furnished from the following districts:

Kilos. San Andres Tuxtla

1,500,000 Acayucan-Talxipam

315, 000 Cordoba ..

3,500,000 Tlapacoyan

1, 725, 000 Tepic.....

1, 725, 000 Ojitlan, Valle Nacional

1, 140,000 Playa Vicente....

1, 150,000 Other Oaxaca and Chiapas districts..

575, 000 San Luis Potosi districts.

230, 000 Total .....

11,500,000

LAW GOVERNING STOCK ISSUES. The Mexican law relative to the issues of stock by companies organized to operate in Mexico is embodied in articles 18, 19, and 20 of the decree of November 29, 1897, as amended by Congress on May 27, 1902, and is literally as follows:

18. (a) That with respect to the requisites or external formalities of the contract authorizing the emission, the laws of the said country where such contract was executed have been duly observed.

(6) That the emission has been effected in accordance with the laws of the country where it was made.

(C) That the three foregoing conditions be evidenced by a certificate issued by the accredited minister of the Republic in that country, or, in default of a diplomatic representative, by a Mexican consul, to the effect that the contract was executed and the emission made in conformity with the laws of said country.

(d) That the contract authorizing the emission be protocolized in the Republic and entered in the commercial registry in conformity with the provisions of paragraph 14 of article 21 of the commercial code.

(@) That if the securities are guaranteed by mortgage, such mortgage must be registered according to the laws of the State or Territory or of the Federal district where the property is situated.

19. The obligations and rights accruing from the contract shall be subject to the laws of the place of execution (provided, always, such laws are not contrary to Mexican laws or affect questions of public order), whether the contract is designated to be carried out wholly or partially in the Republic of Mexico, unless it is expressly stipulated in the contract that it shall be governed by Mexican law in all its parts.

Securities guaranteed by real estate situated in the Republic shall be governed by Mexican law inso far as the mortgage guaranty is concerned.

20. The Mexican courts shall in all cases be fully competent to adjudicate upon whatever questions may arise relative to or that originate in the contract entered into under the provisions of this law, and upon all obligations accruing therefrom.

OPERATIONS OF THE MAIL SERVICE, DECEMBER, 1905. The operations of the Mexican mail service in December, 1905, are thus reported by the postmaster-general, and compared with December, 1904-5, showing an increase of $13,253.26 in the month and of $140,322.24 in the first half of the fiscal year 1905–6. Sales of postage stamps: December, 1905

$284, 186. 15 December, 1904

266, 884.05

This is equal to 4.44 per cent increase in the month.

The revenues from the mail service during the first six months, July to December, of the current fiscal year, 1905-6, were: July ...

$302, 584.04 August

282, 611. 65 September..

268, 288. 49 October..

310, 799.73 November

286, 979.17 December

312, 053. 66

Total revenue Same months in 1904-5

1,763, 316.74 1,622, 994. 50

This increase in revenue from the post-office during the first half of the current fiscal year, 1905-6, as compared with the revenue for the corresponding half of 1904-5, is equal to 8.65 per cent.

This is only one of the many practical evidences of the steady progress and sustained development of the Mexican Republic.

COPPER MINING IN THE REPUBLIC.

Copper mining on a large scale is a comparatively new industry in Mexico, but the vigorous manner in which it is pursued has placed the Republic's annual production above that of Spain and Portugal, and ranks Mexico the second largest of the world's producers. The output in 1904 amounted to 50,945 long tons. Copper deposits occur throughout the country, and copper mines are found in nearly every State. The most important producers are in Sonora, Lower California, Chihuahua, Michoacan, and Durango.

The Greene Consolidated Copper Company's mine at Cananea, Sonora, is now the largest in Mexico. It also ranks fourth among the world's producers. The company's property includes thoroughly equipped concentrating and reduction plants of the largest designs.

The output of the mines during the year was 489,352 tons of ore and 147,099 tons of fluxing materials, limestone, and iron. The ore treatment amounted to 207,224 tons net, and the output of concentrate was 59,065 tons, showing a ratio of 3.51 to 1. Since full operations were resumed the daily capacity has averaged 900 tons, at a cost of $0.78 per ton.

The smelter treated 308,215 tons or ore and concentrate, an increase of 33.8 per cent over the preceding year, at a cost of $1.40 per ton less than the average for that year, but without any additions to the equipment.

The net profit for the year was $1,075,315, in which the value of stocks on hand was estimated at cost. From this an appropriation of $107,988 was made, to cover depreciation of plant, leaving a balance

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of $967,327 for distribution. The total capitalization is $8,640,000. Two 3 per cent dividends, aggregating $518,000, were paid during the year, the balance being applied to betterments.

In the Nacozari, Sonora, mine of the Moctezuma Copper Company a new ore body of importance has been found, and production will be increased materially. On the completion of the railroad from Douglas to Nacozari the smelter at the latter point was shut down, and the concentrate shipped to the Copper Queen smelter, at Douglas. An enlargement of the Nacozari concentrator is under consideration.

At Boleo, Lower California, satisfactory developments have been made, and the mine is in a prosperous condition. The output of metallic copper for the year was nearly 11,000 tons. Much searching for copper was carried on in the Yaqui River district of Sonora, and some prospects are being exploited. At Triunfo the Progreso mine, one of the oldest in Mexico, has resumed the payment of dividends, and, in addition to an output of silver, there have been developments of gold ore which promise well.

Las Vegas copper mine, in Chihuahua, near the Conchos River, has now been rendered more accessible by the building of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway to Las Trancas. At Los Reyes, near Jiminez, the Gibosa mine has kept up its usual production, and extensive development work is being carried on. The Jesus Maria copper mines, at Baguerachie, on the line of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad, has been explored by an American company. This property was operated in 1864 by Baron Necker, and trouble regarding ownership was an excuse for the French intervention. The mine is still handicapped by its distance from a railroad, but as the main line of the Stilwell road, now building, passes over the claims, it will in time become a producer of importance. This railroad between Urique and Choix passess through a district in which other large copper deposits have been discovered. Northwest of Ahumada, on the Mexican Central, San Antonio capitalists are opening a new district, and have already found some oxidized ore assaying 10 per cent copper.

A light railroad has been built from Otto station, in Coahuila, on the Mexican Central Railroad, to the mines of the Jimulco Mining Company. The line is operated by a Shay locomotive, 60 tons of ore being shipped daily to Aguascalientes, containing 0.15 ounce silver and 16 per

cent copper. At Alvino, Durango, irregular shipments of copper have been made to Aguascalientes. The Descubridora mine, at Conejos, has been worked intermittently, but it is now closed down. In Guanacevi some promising copper ores, carrying gold and silver, have been opened near the town. At Velardeña the copper deposits of the Velardeña Mining and Smelting Company have proved to be extensive. Gas producers and

Bull. No. 3–06-13

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The magnificent trees are rapidly disappearing, as the operators are taking no precaution to protect them from the destructive methods of the "chicleros” (chicle gatherers), who, in their greed to obtain all the sap possible, cut the trees so deep that they do not recover from the effects of the incisions, but gradually decay. Before the trees reach this stage, and while still easy to work, they are cut down and shaped into building material.

The chicle industry extends from this section as far as the extreme southern portion of Yucatan, which produces the largest yield, but in quality the gum is inferior to that obtained from this section, especially in the Tuxpam district. The latter gum commands a higher price in the United States, to which it is almost exclusively shipped.

Zapote trees thrive best on high rolling land, and although trees are found on the lowlands, they are inferior in both sap and wood. Continuous tapping does not appear to have a seriously detrimental effect, provided the incisions are not too deep. Trees are known to have been tapped for twenty-five years, but after that time produced only from one-half to 2 pounds of sap. If allowed to rest five or six years, they will produce from 3 to 5 pounds. The average height of the trees is about 30 feet. Zapotes are exceedingly slow in growth and require from forty to fifty years to attain full height.

The chicle season opens early in September, though the yield at this period is limited, and, owing to still copious rains, the “chiclerox” are retarded in their work; but this is to a great extent a benefit, as rains are favorable to an abundant flow of the sap, provided the rainy season is not prolonged beyond October, in which case sap would contain a larger proportion of water and the loss in condensation would be heavy and the product inferior. New trees will produce from 15 to 25 pounds of sap, according to size. In order to produce 25 pounds a tree would have to square about 2 feet and from 25 to 30 feet high.

The process of extracting the sap is extremely primitive. Open V-shaped incisions are made in the tree trunks, permitting the sap to flow in a continuous stream. At the foot of each tree a palm or other appropriate leaf is fastened, which acts as a leader or gutter from which the chicle drips into the receptacle placed to receive it.

The sap as it flows into the incisions is beautifully white, has the consistency of light cream, but as it runs down it gradually becomes more viscous, until, as it drips into the receiving receptacle, it is of the density of heavy treacle. It is very adhesive, aud is extensively employed for repairing broken articles and fastening leather tips to billiard cues.

When the receptacle is filled it is emptied into a large iron kettle mounted on a temporary stone foundation, with a small opening for wood, the fuel used in the boiling process to evaporate the water, which amounts to about 25 per cent of the sap. As the