ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



ARIZONA. 



TO 



Belgium. 



$10,100,374 



......... ,, 



Brazil ......... 543,168 



Chili 



86,92-2 



France'!!.'.'.';.'.'.' 1,549,445 



Germany 4,460,606 



Great Britain .... 1,908,730 



Italy 1,241,696 



Paraguay 86,151 



Shipping Movements. The shipping move- 

 ments at the various ports of the republic were 

 as follow in 1883 : 

 ENTERED : Tom. 



Steamers, 8,026, with an aggregate of 1,4*7,018 



Sailing-vessels, 3,445, with an aggregate of .... 517,070 



CLEARED : 



Steamers. 8,172, with an aggregate of 1,318,201 



Sailing-vessels, 2,263, with an aggregate of 424,124 



COASTING AND FLUVIAL TRADE. 



Steamer*, 6,041, with an aggregate of 1,545,648 



Sailing-vessels, 16,411, with an aggregate of ... 517,700 



OLE A BCD : 



Steamers, 6.041 , with an aggregate of 1,515,148 



Sailing-vessels, 16,b35, with an aggregate of ... 550,844 



The distribution of this trade by flags was : 

 Argentine, 54 per cent. ; French, 29 ; British, 

 7 ; Uruguayan, 3 ; Italian, 2 ; others, 5. 



Railways. At the end of 1883 there were 

 2,950 kilometres of railway in operation, and 

 2,567 in process of building.* " The locomotive- 

 whistle was heard for the first time in the prov- 

 ince of Santiago del Estero on Oct. 12, 1884." 

 The horse-car lines of the capital, at the end ot 

 1882, covered an aggregate of 95 miles, and, 

 with 1,001 employes, carried an average of 

 51,740 passengers daily. There were also 

 lines in some of the smaller towns of the prov- 

 ince of Buenos Ayres, and the city of Cordoba 

 had two lines, and Rosario one. 



Telegraphs. In January, 1883, the telegraph 

 lines of the republic were of the total length of 

 13,543 kilometres, of which 10,772 were Gov- 

 ernment property ; the number of offices was 

 202; and that of the dispatches transmitted 

 during the year immediately previous, 438,090, 

 of which 71,838 were official. 



The total number of dispatches for 1883 was 

 496,726, of which 71,460 were official. At the 

 end of 1882 the^e were in Buenos Ayres two 

 telephone companies, with 1,500 subscribers. 



Post-Offlee. In 1882 there were transmitted 

 through this department 17,500,000 letters, 

 postal-cards, and packages of printed matter. 

 The exchange of correspondence, etc., with 

 foreign countries in 1883 was as follows: 

 Letters, 2,207,000 ; printed matter, 1,400,000. 

 The number of registered packages was 93,313. 

 The yield of the Post-Office Department in 

 1883 was $538,514.83. 



Improvements. Chief among these, besides 

 the already well-advanced work at canaliza- 

 tion of the Rinchuelo of Buenos Ayres to fit it 

 for craft of all sizes, may be mentioned the 

 extension of pipes for the supply of potable 

 water in that city. 



* A list of the several lines was given In the volume for 

 1333. 



ARIZONA. Territorial Government The fol- 

 lowing were the Territorial officers during the 

 year: Governor, Frederick A. Tritle; Secre- 

 tary, H. M. Van Arnam ; Treasurer, T. J. But- 

 ler; Chief-Justice of Supreme Court, Sumner 

 Howard ; Associate Justices, A. W. Sheldon 

 and Daniel H. Pinney. 



Political. A Republican Territorial Conven- 

 tion was held in Phenix on the 15th of April 

 to select delegates to the National Convention. 

 Another convention of the same party was held 

 in Tombstone on the 15th of September, which 

 nominated C. C. Bean for delegate to Congress, 

 and R. L. Long for Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction. Among the resolutions adopted 

 were the following : 



That we with ^ pleasure confirm the action of the 

 National Eepublican Convention in recommending 

 that all Federal appointments to the offices of the Ter- 

 ritories of the United States be made within the Ter- 

 ritories themselves, recognizing the fact that citizens 

 of the Territory are best qualified to discharge the 

 responsible duties appertaining to such positions. 



That we recognize the depressing influence of the 

 many old fraudulent claims to large grants of land 

 with'in our Territory ; and we demand from our del- 

 egate in Congress that he use his best efforts in se- 

 curing united action with the Representatives of all 

 States and Territories interested in obtaining from 

 Congress such action as shall speedily settle and quiet 

 all such claims. 



This convention favors any and all measures that 

 will tend to bring labor and capital, organized and 

 unorganized, into the Territory of Arizona. Equality 

 before the law is the fundamental principle of tnc Re- 

 publican party of the nation, and we pledge the Ee- 

 publican party to such a course of legislation as will 

 extend to corporations and corporate capital in Ari- 

 zona the same protection and the same laws accorded 

 to individuals to perform their just share of the labor 

 and to pay their just share of the taxation we pay to 

 carry on the Government, making the same rules 

 apply to corporations as to individuals. 



That in our opinion there is too much money ap- 

 propriated for the support of hostile Indians to permit 

 of a speedy and just settlement of this vexed question. 

 We believe that a tribe of hostile savages should not 

 be kept in our midst, fed and supported out of the 

 public treasury; we therefore recommend that the 

 safety and protection of the frontier settlers be made 

 the first object in all Territorial and Federal legisla- 

 tion affecting the Indians. We are in favor of the dis- 

 armament of all Indians in this Territory as indis- 

 pensable to the safety of our people. 



That we are in favor of reducing the size of the 

 White Mountain and San Carlos Indian Reservations, 

 and especially are we in favor of segregating the coal- 

 fields therefrom, and throwing open all reservations 

 for the prospecting of minerals and for the locating 

 and working of mineral claims. 



That we condemn the practice of polygamy and 

 bigamy as a crime, and favor the passage ami enforce- 

 ment of such laws as will prevent the continuance 

 of such practice within this Territory. 



That we demand the passage of such quarantine 

 and other laws by the coming Legislature as shall 

 enable the officers of the law and owners of live-stock 

 to protect this great industry from the ravages of con- 

 tagious diseases. 



School Population. The number of children of 

 school age is 9,376, as follows: 



Yuma County 649 



Graham County 685 



Piraal County 684 



Gila County 179 



ve County 154 



Pima County 2,817 



Yavapai County 1,352 



Maricopa County 1,317 



Apache County 1 ,126 



Cochise County 1,018 



