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COLOMBIA. 



COLORADO. 



1879 amounted to $2,156,367.42, and the gross 

 expenses, including subsidy to the Colombian 

 Government, interest on bonds, etc., were 

 $1,035,409.96, leaving as a net balance of profit 

 the sum of $1,120,957.46, being 16 per cent, on 

 the capital stock, from which quarterly divi- 

 dends have been paid equal to 13 per cent, per 

 annum, and $210,957.46 has been added to the 

 surplus fund, increasing the same to $1,401,- 

 744.40. A temporary reduction in the month- 

 ly payments of the Pacific Mail Steamship 

 Company lessened the earnings of the road 

 during the year in the sum of $120,000, which, 

 if secured by the company, would have made 

 the net earnings of the road at the rate of 17| 

 per cent, per annum. The total amount of 

 freight carried during the year was 161,743 

 tons, against 152,477 in 1878, being an increase 

 of 9,266 tons. The principal articles of Cen- 

 tral and South American produce carried dur- 

 ing the year were as follows : 



ARTICLES. 



Bark, bales '. 89,653 



Cotton, bales 40,026 



Cocoa, bags 186,110 



Coffee, bags 851,010 



Indigo, zeroons 9,531 



Ivory-nuts, bags 89,795 



Rubber, bales 16,711 



Sugar, bags 12,348 



The increase in the traffic during the last 

 four years is marked and steady, as will be 

 seen by the following figures : total tons car- 

 ried in 1876 were 113,781; in 1877, 146,- 

 942; in 1878, 152,477; and in 1879, 151,743; 

 showing a net gain since 1876 of over 43 per 

 cent. The portion of American through 

 freight carried during the year was very small, 

 being only 30,734 tons, or about 19 per cent, 

 of the whole traffic. Passengers carried in 

 1879 number 23,729, against 24,921 in 1878, a 

 decrease of 1,192, attributable to the Chili- 

 Peruvian war, and exceptionally light travel 

 between California and New York. 



The works on the Cucuta Railway appear to 

 be advancing steadily. Thirteen kilometres of 

 the line were completed and opened to traffic 

 in November, 1879. 



Of the projected railroad from Honda to 

 Dorada, there were already (February, 1880) 

 about three quarters of a mile ready to receive 

 the rails, and the clearing of the first ten miles 

 is progressing. The work on this road was 

 commenced on August 7, 1879. The surveys 

 for a railroad between Bogota and Jirardot, 

 now being made by Seflor Indalecio Lievano, 

 are to be finished by the middle of the present 

 month. 



Of telegraph there were 1,850 miles in the 

 republic in 1879, and the number of dispatches 

 transmitted in the same year was 124,646. 

 The post-office returns for 1878-'79 were as 

 follows : letters, 462,584 ; packages of printed 

 matter, 470,374. 



The subjoined table, showing the number of 

 normal and primary schools in the republic, 

 and the attendance at the same, is from the 



report of the Minister of Public Education for 

 1879: 



A resolution was passed in the Chamber of 

 Deputies in April, 1880, relative to the recon- 

 stitution of the primitive Colombian Union, 

 comprising the republic now called the United 

 States of Colombia and the republics of Vene- 

 zuela and Ecuador. 



Commotions in Cauca, and a short-lived rev- 

 olutionary movement in Antioquia, were the 

 only instances of disturbance of a political 

 character during the year. 



COLORADO. Negotiations were concluded 

 with the chiefs and head-men of the Utes, and 

 a compact signed, in the beginning of March. 

 The Indians agreed to secure those members of 

 their nation not already in custody who are 

 charged with taking part in the murder of 

 Agent Meeker and his men, or with having been 

 accessory to the deed, and to surrender them 

 up for trial. They also acquiesced in the ces- 

 sion to the United States of the entire territory 

 of the reservation which had been granted to 

 them in Colorado, consisting of one quarter-sec- 

 tion of grazing-land and a like 'quantity of land 

 for tillage to every head of a family in the na- 

 tion, and one half as much to every single per- 

 son. The southern Utes agreed to accept in 

 lieu of the reservation ceded back to the Gov- 

 ernment certain unoccupied agricultural lands 

 on the La Plata River, situated partly in Colo- 

 rado and partly in New Mexico, or to settle upt n 

 other lands in the same region; the Uncom- 

 pahgre Utes agreed to take up a reservation on 

 the Grand River, near the mouth of the Gunni- 

 son, in Colorado; and the White River Utes 

 agreed to settle upon a portion of the Uintah 

 reservation in Utah. The compact allows the 

 Indians to select their own allotments in the 

 localities specified. The existing public high- 

 ways in the selected reservations are to remain 

 open. In return, the Government engaged to 

 survey the allotments, and to grant a patent to 

 each individual Indian in severalty for the farm 

 selected by him, with an inalienable title and im- 

 munity from land taxation for twenty -five years, 

 as soon as the requisite laws shall have been 

 passed by Congress ; the Government further- 

 more agreed to pay the annuities already pro- 

 vided by Congress, of which the sum of about 

 $600,000 had accrued, and such additional ap- 

 propriations as Congress should provide, in cash 

 at the option of the Indians, instead of in cash 



