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The following figures give the area of the concessions : 



From I November 1902 to i November 1909 — still in 

 force: 



From I November 1909 to 31 December 1912 — still in 

 force : 



1st kind 



2nd " 



Agricultural concessions of 3rd kind still in force on 

 31 .Deccember 191 2- (approximately) 



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Concessions granted from i November 1902 to 31 Dec- 

 ember 19 1 2, revoked or renounced '. . 



Concessions granted for limited or expired terms . . . 



8,300 hectares 



To these concessions there should be added three grants for the ex- 

 ploitation, the harvesting and the industrial use of products growing wild 

 (fruits of the dtim palm-tree, castor-oil grain, indiarubber and sesamum 

 grain). Another concession was of pasturege over an area of 300 hectares. 



The preceding data cannot, although taken from official documents, 

 be considered as based on more than approximate calculations. It should 

 also be noted that all grants are not now active, whether because grantees 

 have failed to derive a profit, or because their recent date has not allowed 

 the necessary steps to their occupation to be taken. 



From other data, taken from an authorized source, it appears that un- 

 til September 1915 there had been 102 grants of the first and second kinds 

 of land held in free and absolute ownership, having a total area of 

 3,392.0969 hectares. 



From an of&cial source we learn also that concessions for quarries and 

 ovens up to the end of 1915 numbered twenty-seven. Mining concessions 

 and permits for searches and superficial borings up to 15 April 1916 num- 

 bered eight and the grantees included two syndicates, to one of whom were 

 granted the goldmines of Cheren and to the other the peridot mines of the 

 islands of Kad Ah. 



Finally at the end of 1916 four permits were granted to gather the fruit 

 of the dum palm-tree in the domanial woods of Barca. 



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These results to which Itahan colonization in Erythrea has hitherto 

 attained and the numerous studies of which they have been the subject 

 allow the statement that this colony cannot, and never can be, an outlet 



