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eded, and twenty steamers monthly keep up a 

 constant .stream of emigration from Italian, 

 Fr.Mirh, Spanish, German, Belgian, and English 



Tin- following is a comparative table of the 

 arrivals iu tlio six years, 1868-78 : 



YEARS. Arrhali. 



1868 ................ 2!I.*M 



1800 ............... 87,934 



................ 41,068 



.............. 81,758 



YEARS. Arrival!. 



18T 41,003 



1873 79,71* 



Total In 6 years.. 250,098 



A statistical table, compiled from auction- 

 eers' books, notaries' registers, and banking- 

 houses in the city, shows that the value of 

 property purchased by foreign settlers and of 

 moneys remitted in small drafts to their friends 

 at home reached the enormous figure of 

 2,600,000, or $13,000,000, viz. : 



Public lands bought 45,460 



Returns of 24 auctioneers 1,280,000 



Foreign Investments at Rusarid 2*0,300 



Beuiittances to Italy 405,000 



to Spain 802,600 



toFrance 182,400 



to Qt. Britain and Ireland. 84.200 



to Switzerland 89,500 



toQeruiany 24,090 



2,603,460 





was $178,724, and these really amounted to bat 

 $105,7* t, leaving a surplus of $72,940. It may 

 be curious to mention that the forwarding im- 

 migrants' letters to Europe free of charge is re- 

 garded as a most successful means of encour- 

 aging immigration; and an expenditure of 

 $28,620 for free passages to Europe in favor 

 of 106 deserving colonists was the means of 

 securing 402 new settlers. Some 18 per cent, 

 of the total outlay of the department is for the 

 remuneration of fourteen agents in Europe. 



It was estimated that the arrivals in 1874 

 would amount to 100,000. 



The President of the Republic is Dr. Don 

 Nicolas Avellaneda, elected in 1874 ; Vice- 

 President, Dr. M. Acosta, elected in the same 

 year ; Minister of the Interior, Dr. Simon de 

 Iriondo; of Foreign Affairs, Dr. F61ix Frias; 

 of Finance, Don Santiago Cortines ; of Justice, 

 Public Worship, and Public Instruction, Dr. 

 One"simo Leguizama ; of War, Dr. Adolfo Al- 

 sina. Argentine minister to the United States, 

 Sr. Don Manuel R. Garcia (in Europe since 

 1872); charge d'affaires, Sr. Don Carlos Car- 

 ranza. The Governors of the fourteen prov- 

 inces are as follows : 

 _ Mr. Wilcken, the director of the immigra- Buenos Ayres (pro tern.) Colonel Barrios. 



tion department, regards these figures as far Minister of the interior Dr. A. Alcortu. 



hftlrtw th truth hut it id nppArthplf><jo wnn Minister of Finance L. Basavilhaso. 



. It IS, nevertheless, W on- Catamarca Gen. O. Navarro. 



derful that the yearly savings of a hundred Cordoba E. Rodriguez. 



thousand families in Bnenos Ayres and Santa S ^ 16 ^ 9 M ' ^', Gelabert - 



r-,, , i i A, nnn Entre-Rios L. Echasrae. 



F6 should average $1,300, or an aggregate sum j u juy A. Mas-oiler. 



equivalent to the revenue of not a few second- La Rioja R. Ocampo. 



rate European monarchies. There is an inter- fiSStS^IV.V.V.'.?.'.*.*."'".'".'.'.'.*." P.'sanavria. 

 esting fact in real estate immediately traceable San Juan........'....'....'.. ....'..'.'. M. GOmcz. 



to the large numbers of immigrants referred i an Ll Ux' L. L. Quiroga, 



rp, /. T> i banta P e 8. Bayo, 



to. The province of Buenos Ayres has an area Santiago A. Ibarra. 



of 70,000 square miles, and a population of Tucuman B. Lopez. 



51,653, or eight inhabitants to the square mile JQ th esl)imated budget for 1875 the varf . 



SSSkfe s'Xrt . BffSSUnSL? cipenditme 8tond M 



of 35,000 square miles, and but four inhabitants ' 



to the square mile, only one per 1,000 of whom Itnport duties *14 900 ooo 



are foreigners. Now, in the former province, Additional duties! .' .' .' .' .' .' .' ." .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' 8,'59o.'ooo 



a single building-lot costs, in the suburbs of the Export duties 2,80o!ooo 



capital as much as one square league, or 6,660 g!8^^^;;;;;::;: 1 ffljgj 



acres of land in the latter. Mr. Wilcken in- Stamped paper , 4:,ooo 



geniously calculates in the following manner TefeSSw no'ooo 



the accretion to the public wealth resulting Dividend of Centra) Arjrentine'RaYlway Co.'.! 



from the immigration of 1873, adopting the Rio Cuarto and Port Ruiz Railways 130,000 



United States basis of $1,000 per individual ^^S*. 1 .^"- Tffio 



arrived: Sundries 234!s73 



79,712 Immigrants, at $1,000 $79,712,000 



Capital of immigrants on arrival 7,014,656 *a,9S6,8W 



Increase of revenue at $12 956544 EXPENDITURE. 



Salaries at $200 each 15,942,000 Finance: 



Interest on public debt $7,762.529 



$103,725,200 Customs officials, etc 1,.M.179 



This estimate, however enormous it may ap- coiuadurfa^. . ! . 8 .' .' .' ! ! . . . . . . . . .'.'!!.'."! . .' ! ! ! ! isuess 



pear, is affirmed to contain no exaggeration; Salaries, etc 248.209 



nor is it, after all, so very wonderful, if we are In rior l i m 



to accept as accurate the $13,000,000 of sav- conKrels . !.'.'!!:.'!!!!.'!:!!!.'!!!:.'!!!'!!!:!! 493.400 



ings above cited for the same year. Little Immigration !.!!!.!!!!!! 4oo!z84 



variation is noticeable in the proportion of ?ffiSpK^ . raU . W r. y . 8 ' et 



nationalities, the Italians still standing for a Provincial subsidies'.!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JBS.'OOO 



full half of the arrivals. The sum appropri- En-:ineere' department 91,800 



ated in 1873 for the expenses of the department 



