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ARGENTINE EEPUBLIC. 



ARIZONA. 



post-office for $50,000. We are also going to build 

 post-offices at Tucuman and Cordoba; but the Laz- 

 zaretto at Martin Garcia must for the present lie over. 

 Immigration we regard as the key to national 

 progress, and the forerunner of trade. The number 

 of French immigrants, and the amount of our im- 

 port-trade from France, were as follows in the years 

 below expressed : 



The decline of immigration to Buenos Ayres is 

 due to causes in Europe which have determined a 

 like result in the United States, as, for instance : 



1878. 1875. 

 New York 866,818 84,650 



Last year we forwarded to the various provinces 

 9,828 new immigrants. The Chubut (Patagonia) 

 colony is thriving, having a population of 700. 

 Some families, too much hampered at Chubut, have 

 been sent up to the Chaco, where three new colonies 

 have been founded. The East Argentine colony 

 counts 330 settlers, from the Tyrol, brought here 

 at a cost of $50 each from Havre. 



Stupendous has been the growth of the Santa Fe" 

 colonies in one year : 



The Government sends up passage-free all new- 

 comers who wish to try their fortune at these colo- 

 nies. 



Congress voted last year $80,000 for free passages 

 to immigrants and supplies for food, etc. We only 

 spent $16,022, namely, in bringing out Tyrolese 

 settlers for Entre-Rios, and sending supplies to the 

 Chubut colony. 



The homestead law is imperatively called for, as 

 every dollar we spend on immigration gives 150 per 

 C2nt. per annum in increase of revenue. Last year 

 our Immigration Department cost altogether $207,- 

 447, which, in relation to 42,000 new-comers, repre- 

 sents an outlay of $4.93, which, for 42,000 new- 

 comers, is equal to an increase of $352,000 in import 

 revenue. Moreover, it is impossible to estimate the 

 increase of products to be obtained by the introduc- 

 tion of 100,000 agricultural settlers, which would 

 cost the republic only a million dollars.* 



Senor Olivera's report upon the Post-Office De- 

 partment shows a saving ot $95,797 on the sum ap- 

 propriated by Congress, and an improvement of 

 $52,000 in favor of the Treasury, as compared with 

 1874. 



Some of the provinces want to tax the coaches we 

 employ to carry the mails, and Congress must pass 

 a law exempting the lines from local taxation. By 

 abolishing Government mail-cars, and subsidizing 

 private ones, we have effected a saving of $50.000. 



The Galles contract, for carrying mails to Patago- 

 nia, has been rescinded. As the European mail- 

 steamers complained of the number of free passages 

 granted, we have agreed to reduce them to one first 

 and two steerage passages. 



The number of telegraphic dispatches increased 

 from 262,376 in 187_4 to 277,254 in 1875. 



The department is now annexed to the Post-Office. 

 Mr. Eogers is making the telegraph-line from Eio 

 Cuarto to Eio Quinto. Seno' 1 Carranza has received 

 materials for the line from Jujuy to Bolivia, for 



* This law has since been passed. 



which we pay him 120 per mile. Mr. James An- 

 derson is making a line from Cordoba to Salto, 

 and Senor A. Santamaria one from Concepciou to 

 Paysandii. 



It is desirable to plant trees throughout the Pam- 

 pas, from Buenos Ayres to San Luis, but this will be 

 a work of years. Mr. Oldendorff distributed last 

 year 32,300 collections of seeds among 1,326 persons. 

 In future we propose to sell the seeds and plants, 

 instead of giving them gratis. The Botanical Gar- 

 den has $20,000 worth. We have given 1,440 for 

 certain colonists at Tortugas, who have planted 

 18,000 mulberry-trees ; also $724 to colonists in 

 Concepcion, for rearms silk-worms. 



A subsidy of $250,000 has been paid to the Ber- 

 mejo Navigation Company. 



ARIZONA. The Governor in his message 

 to the biennial session of the Legislature, com- 

 mencing January 4, 1875, states that the amount 

 on hand and in the general fund, December 

 31, 1872. was $16,466.33 ; receipts to Decem- 

 ber 31, 1874, $19,721.53 ; making a total of 

 $36,187.86. The disbursements from the gen- 

 eral fund were $27,827.33 ; balance, $8,300.53. 

 At no period had the Indian affairs been so sat- 

 isfactory ; comparative peace reigned through- 

 out the Territory. The subject of obtaining 

 water by means of artesian wells was engaging 

 attention, and it was recommended that a re- 

 ward of $5,000 be offered for the first flowing 

 water obtained by means of an artesian well 

 in the Territory. " The advantages that would 

 be derived from developing flowing water by 

 artesian wells can hardly be estimated. We 

 have millions of acres of grazing and agricult- 

 ural lands, and many valuable mines, unser- 

 viceable unless water be developed upon them." 

 With reference to mining, agriculture, and graz- 

 ing, the Governor says : 



There has been a marked increase in mining en- 

 terprises during the past year. Many new and val- 

 uable discoveries have been made, and considerable 

 gold, silver, copper, and lead, is being extracted. 

 There is but little capital among us to develop and 

 work mines ; but in a small way, and with rude ma- 

 chinery, our hardy miners have started and are suc- 

 cessfully operating a large number of mines. Agri- 

 cultural interests are not prosperous, in consequence 

 of the low price of grain. Farmers have supplied 

 the citizens, military, and Indians, with produce, and 

 have had a surplus left. No greater encomium could 

 be paid the productiveness of the Territory. The 

 market being limited, the low prices have seriously 

 embarrassed the farmers, but, with the development 

 of the mines, a more extended market will be opened 

 for produce. Our unequaled grazing facilities are 

 beginning to be appreciated. Large numbers of 

 horses, cattle, and sheep, have already been brought, 

 here from the adjoining States and Territories, and 

 many thousands are now en route. The time is not 

 far distant when Arizona will be one of the first 

 wool-producing Territories of the Union. 



The condition of the public schools for the 

 year ending December 31, 1875, was as follows: 

 Total receipts from all sources, $28,759.92, an 

 increase over the previous year of $16,986.77 ; 

 total disbursements, $24,151.96, an increase 

 over the previous year of $14,999.82 ; balance, 

 $4,607.96. Says the report : 



A tax of 15 cents on each $100 worth of taxable 

 property is levied and collected annually for a Ter- 

 ritorial school-fund, and is divided between the sev- 



