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CHILI. 



COUNTRIES. Vlue. 



Great Britain $21,034,000 



Peru 5,441,000 



France 8,007,000 



Bolivia 2,289,000 



Uruguay 1,176,000 



Germany 928,000 



United States 418,080 



Brazil 286,000 



Argentine Republic 241,000 



Ecuador 176,000 



Other countries 279,000 



Fisheries. 653,000 



Total $35,923,000 



Coasting-trade $21,338,500 



In transitu 2,033,500 



23.372,000 



Total exports $59,300,000 



The following table exhibits the value of 

 the imports for 1875, and the countries from 

 which they were received : 



OOCTNTEIE8. Value. 



Great Britain $15,703,000 



France 7,815,090 



Germany 4,102,000 



Argentine Republic 2,727.000 



Peru 2,411,000 



United States 2,133,000 



Bolivia 579,000 



Brazil 493,000 



Belgium 787,000 



Other countries 1,638,000 



Fisheries 91,000 



Total $38,138,000 



Coasting $21.338,530 



In transitu 2,038.500 



23,372,000 



Total imports $61,510,000 



It is observed that, in the mean, some two- 

 thirds of the Chilian exports are to Great 

 Britain, and that somewhat over one-third of 

 the imports are received therefrom. 



The value of metals exported in 1875 was as 

 follows: Silver, $2,938,510 ; copper, $13,968,- 

 658 total, $16,907,163. 



In the month of September, 1876, copper, 

 silver, and cobalt were exported from Caldera 

 of the value of $446,211.79 ; and ores of the 

 value of $10,510,50 were received at the same 

 port. 



The following interesting report of the min- 

 eral wealth of the northern province of Ata- 

 cama was published in 1876 by the Chilian 

 consul-general at San Francisco, Sefior Casa- 



. The value of the silver, bullion and bars, exported 

 from that province during a period of thirty-two 

 years (from 1843 to 1875 T amounts to $89,131,706. 

 From 1843, the production of silver has increased 

 from $1,000,000 (amount produced in that year) to 

 $5,356,160 for the year 1875. 



The value of the minerals of all kinds exported 

 from the province during the thirty-two years above 

 stated amounted to the enormous sum of $240,000,- 

 000. The following table shows the ratio of increase 

 in the production for the past thirty years, in periods 

 of five years : 



First period $15,914,455 



Second" 27.925.071 



Third " 40,210.407 



Fourth " . 42.315.349 



Fifth " . 50.548.205 



Sixth " 57,868,092 



This increase is very remarkable. Comparing the 

 amount of mineral product exported from the prov- 



ince of Atacama with the inward movement of the 

 republic of Chili, the following is shown : In 1843, 

 the total mineral exportation of Atacama amounted 

 to $1,721,321, and the total importation of Chili to 

 $8,500,000; while in 1875 the total exportation of 

 minerals from Atacama amounted to $13,668,471, 

 imd the total importation of Chili to $38,417,729. 

 Hence, the exportations of Atacama alone amounted 

 to over one-third of the importations of the whole 

 republic. 



The following figures show the exportation of min- 

 erals from Atacama in 1875 in detail, viz. : 



Silver in bars, $5,356,160 : copper in pigs, $3,419,- 

 660 ; copper in bars, $2,654,477 ; copper-ore, $1,394,- 

 065 ; copper and silver bars, $630,500 ; copper und 

 silver ore, $53,797 ; silver-ore, $36,902 ; copper, sil- 

 ver, and gold bars, 36,240. Total, $13,581,801. 



In 1874 the amount of Bolivian ore sent to Ata- 

 cama for reduction was 64,444,434 grammes ; and in 

 1875, 21,047,582 grammes ; while the production of 

 the province in minerals of all kinds in 1874 

 amounted to 43,716,396 grammes, and in 1875 to 

 112,856,418 grammes. 



In 1875 there were 486 mines in operation in the 

 province, divided as follows: Copper-mines, 300; 

 silver-mines, 169 ; copper and silver mines, 11 ; 

 gold-mines, 3 ; gold and copper mine, 1 ; silver 

 and gold mine, 1 ; copper, silver, and lead mine, 

 1. Total, 486. 



The shipping movements at the ports of 

 Chili in 1875 comprised 5,827 vessels entered, 

 with an aggregate tonnage of 3,851,000 ; and 

 5,783 vessels cleared, with an aggregate of 

 3,833,168 tons. 



In 1875 there were open to traffic in Chili 

 595 miles of railway ten lines of which 377 

 miles five lines belonged to the Govern- 

 ment ; and three new lines, with an aggregate 

 length of 185 miles, were in process of con- 

 struction. 



The total length of telegraph-lines in the 

 republic in 1875 was 2,559 miles; and the 

 number of dispatches in 1874, 270,198. 



As already stated, Chili is, after the Argen- 

 tine Kepublic, the Spanish-American country 

 in which the largest appropriations of funds 

 are made to the cause of education. In 1875, 

 298 university degrees were conferred, four of 

 the graduates being licentiates in medicine 

 who had studied in foreign universities. The 

 foundation of a second Institute National is 

 now proposed, that at present in existence be- 

 ing insufficient to accommodate the number of 

 students applving for admittance. During the 

 year 1877 will be installed and in operation 

 the classes of the Valparaiso Lyceum, in the 

 new edifice now in course of construction, and 

 which will shortly be completed. The primary 

 schools in operation during the year 1875 

 numbered 1,359, of which 818 were public, and 

 541 private; the alternate schools number 62. 

 Adequate buildings are required, as well as a 

 regular system of teaching and discipline, and 

 a sufficient number of text-books adapted to 

 the requirements of the scholars; grave ob- 

 jections have likewise been urged against the 

 class of teachers usually chosen. All this, how- 

 ever, is being gradually remedied ; and if, as is 

 expected, the intellectual standard of the pre- 

 ceptors be raised, it will soon be possible to 

 form a staff satisfactory in every respect. The 



