112 



rim. I. 



leather, wine*, and brandy; tea, 

 ugar, cacao, tobacco, rioe, dyes, pearls, 

 aH*, etc., etc. Two-fifths of the article* im- 

 ported proceed from England, and about one- 

 ixth from France. The following table ex- 

 hibit* the imports for 1871 : 



$10.748405 

 4,6*1.000 



-M!fi 



S8 



798,000 



. 



Ocfc*r"coantiie*. ....... ............... 1.084,000 



ToUlfbrUTI 

 ToUlforWW 



Dtcra*** for 1871 ................. MM 



In the above table* there is not stated the 

 value of good* received in trantitu, which, 

 in 1871, amounted to $6,279,000 inward, and 

 $4,714,000 outward. 



The total value of the exports to England, in 

 1872, was $27,068,915, which is considerably 

 above the aggregate value of the exports to all 

 countries in 1870. The entire value of the 

 imports from Great Britain, in 1872, reached 

 $16.842,616. 



The coasting-trade for 1871 represented a 

 total value of $31,188,000. The whole trade 

 of the republic, for 1871, may be recapitulated 

 a* follow* : 



Kiport* .............................. HU8S.801 



Impact* .............................. UK 



Goods in tnuuUu ................ 4.714.000 



OoMtlmr-lmda. .................. 81,188.000 



ToUl 



The port movements for 1871 are exhibited 

 in the subjoined table : 



1.171 



411.. 



II'. . 



N.tloMl. .. 



French..... 

 Am-rtaui... 



Sn Satndor 

 lultan.. 



HrltUh... 



Other *. 



4W.OOO 



J.W1.000 



111.000 



1SS.OOO 



67.000 



M.OUO 



HMO 



HJOO 



ua <>> 



The merchant navy comprised, in the same 

 year, T5 vesnels, with an aggregate of 16,187 

 ton* measurement ; of which number 18 were 

 itoiimfi, with 8,887 ton*. 



At the end of 1878, the following railway* 

 wre in operation : 



Un l-l 



p * IXM AndM 44 



*Cnrte6 . us 



*PlmW 



*Cbin.n IRS 



** Anloolo.. 150 



oAC*'&nta*M:: 



*Cb**rcino II 



Alto A rrrt*l Bi>> 40 



T M 



Besides the foregoing, the first five of which 

 belong to the state, the lines hereafter named 

 are in process of construction : Curiro t.. Cliil- 

 Inn, 190 kilometres; San Roscndo to Angol, 

 '.'< kilometres; and Santa Fe to Los Angeles, 

 14 kilometres, all the property of the state. 



The length of the government lines of tele- 

 graph was 3,092 kilometres; that of the line 

 from Santiago to Valparaiso, the property of 

 a private company, 180 kilometres. Of the 

 fifty-two offices in the republic, so far, fifty be- 

 long to the state. The laying i' the telegraph 

 to Oonoepcion was completed, and the line 

 opened to the public service in January. 



In the same month the Inspector-General of 

 Telegraphs ordered a line to be made between 

 LoU and Coronel, and another to connect the 

 latter place with Arauco. 



At a meeting of the directors of the Tran- 

 sandine Telegraph Company, held on May 

 21st, it was stated that the business of the 

 company was steadily increasing, and that it 

 would soon be possible to declare a dividend. 

 It was also asserted that the Brazilian and 

 Lisbon cable would be laid and opened as far 

 as St. Vincent, Cape de Verde, in September 

 next, and that the construction of the rernam- 

 bnco cable would be completed by May, 1874; 

 so that about the middle of the the latter year 

 Chili would be in telegraphic communication 

 with the whole world. 



Snow, as it had been apprehended, is likely 

 to give rise to interruptions in the Transundine 

 Telegraph service at certain seasons of the 

 year. Communications were for a time sus- 

 pended in August. 



It was reported that the Antofagasta and 

 Mejillones Railway Companies had amalga- 

 mated, and that the Bolivian Government had 

 been petitioned to sanction the agreement. 



Permission was granted to Unneneta and 

 Erraznriz to build a railway from Totoralillo 

 to La Hignera, with an exclusive privilege for 

 thirty years. 



A person named Francisco Riso Patron ob- 

 tained an exclusive privileu'r, tor eight years, 

 for an invention which he denominate* a 

 maritime railway. The commissioners appoint- 

 ed to report npon the invention state that it 

 will effect quite a revolution in the manner of 

 loading ana unloading vessels. The inventor 

 claims that by means of his apparatus tic ran 

 discharge the largest of the straits steamers in 

 four hours. 



The modifications in the proposal of Messrs. 

 Clark & Co., for the construction of a railway 

 over the Andes, consist in an annual subsidy 

 of $163,000, in bonds of the six per cent, loan, 

 instead of a guarantee of seven per cent. 

 Hewn. Clark & Co. bind themselves to give 

 np the bond* when the net receipts of the 

 line exceed seven per cent, on the cost of the 

 line. The Government is to be allowed to 

 take part in the formation of the tariffs of the 

 line, when the net receipts exceed twelve per 

 cent, on the cost. 



