ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



ARIZONA. 



5,348, the increase since 1885 being 63 public 

 schools, with 12,390 pupils and 612 teachers. 

 The national territorial educational establish- 

 ments had an increase of pupils, in 1886, of 

 262, as compared with the previous year. The 

 national capital counts 54 educational estab- 

 lishments, 40 of which, ready to receive 22,- 

 000 children, were opened on Oct. 3, 1886. 

 During the year $3,500,000 were spent on the 

 schools, which is an average of about $1 to 

 each inhabitant of the country. 



Immigration. The number of immigrants 

 landed at Buenos Ayres in 1886 was 93,116, 

 and 19,293 cabin-passengers; total, 112,409. 

 During the thirty years from 1857 to 1886, 

 1,098,220 immigrants arrived. During the past 

 seventeen years, 1870 to 1886, there landed 

 from Europe 605,533 immigrants, and from 

 Montevideo 328,003. It has been decided to 

 build eleven hotels for the reception of new- 

 comers, each to have a capacity for boarding 

 and lodging from 500 to 1,000 individuals; one 

 to be located in the suburbs of Buenos Ayres ; 

 two in the province of Buenos Ayres ; and 

 two in each of the provinces of C6rdoba, Santa 

 F6, Entre-Rios, and Corrientes. The Argen- 

 tine immigration law secures the newcomer, 

 during the first days after landing, board and 

 lodging. But the Bureau of Labor immediate- 

 ly busies itself about procuring them work on 

 the spot, dispatching them to a colony, on the 

 Government, if able to utilize their labor any- 

 where, causes them to be conveyed thither at 

 its own expense. In the new colonies the 

 Government makes the first twenty-five fami- 

 lies a land-grant of thirty hectares each. More 

 land is at the disposal of such families at $2 

 per hectare, and advances up to $1,000 are 

 made to each family, if desired, in the shape 

 of provisions, seed for the first crop, animals, 

 tools, and agricutural implements. The lib- 

 eral credit of ten years is allowed settlers on 

 such land purchases and advances, within 

 which to refund the Government, but a title is 

 given them after two years of cultivation. 



New Industries. The Argentine Congress 

 passed a bill in 1886 incorporating the sugar- 

 refinery to be founded by Messrs. Ernest Torn- 

 quist & Co., at Rosario, and guaranteeing for 

 the term of fifteen years 7 per cent, per annum 

 interest on the actual capital to be invested 

 therein, the refinery to work none but domestic 

 cane-sugar, the capacity of the refinery to be 

 at the least 15,000 tons annually of refined 

 sugar. All machinery and material to be ad- 

 mitted duty free, and the refinery to enjoy 

 immunity from any kind of taxation. The 

 new refinery is expected to be in full operation 

 within two years. The production of cane- 

 sugar in the republic has reached 40,000 tons 

 per annum. The Provincial Government of 

 Buenos Ayres in April sold to Lorenzo Pas- 

 cual Cortada a large plot of land, at the low 

 price of thirty centimes the square yard, on 

 which he is to erect a factory for the weaving 

 of wool, silk, linen, and cotton, at a cost of 



$500,000, the factory to be finished within 

 twelve months. The exportation to Em-ope 

 of carcasses of sheep, on board refrigerator 

 steamers, has become an important item of 

 trade. In 1883, 17,160 carcasses were shipped ; 

 in 1884, 108,800; in 1885, 190,600; and in 

 1886, 361,200. A company was formed at 

 Buenos Ayres in the summer, with a capital of 

 $2,000,000, incorporated for a term of thirty 

 years, for the purpose of exporting live cattle, 

 chiefly to Europe. Another company was in 

 the course of formation, with a capital of 

 $2,000,000, having for its object the export of 

 frozen meat. It proposes to acquire from three 

 to four leagues of grazing-land of superior qual- 

 ity, seed 1,500 cuadras, thereof with clover, 

 and buy cattle enough to have at all times a 

 ready supply of 20,000 head for slaughtering. 

 A similar stock of sheep is to be kept, and the 

 slaughtering is to take place not far from the 

 harbor of Buenos Ayres, so as to faciliate the 

 rapid transfer of meat to be shipped to the -re 

 frigerator steamers. A project is on foot in 

 the province of C6rdoba, to create an experi- 

 mental viticultural station, combined with a 

 model establishment for wine-making, under 

 the superintendence of practical viticulturists, 

 who engage to superintend the building of cel- 

 lars and to furnish all that is necessary for the 

 manufacture of wine in accordance with the 

 most approved modern Bordelais style, the 

 station to be called the Chateau C6rdoba. The 

 province makes them a land-grant covering an 

 area of fifty hectares, thirty -four of which are 

 to be planted with vines ; eight hectares are to 

 be set aside for the instruction of apprentices 

 intending to become viticulturists. The Pro- 

 vincial Government will, at its own expense, 

 erect the school-buildings adjoining the station. 



Coal and Oil. Under an offer of a prize of 

 $25,000, scientific men have been scouring the 

 country for deposits of coal, and are said to 

 have found large beds in the northern part of 

 the republic. The Department of Public 

 Works, which has had the direction of the ex- 

 plorations, is so well satisfied with the genu- 

 ineness of the discovery that the prize has been 

 awarded, and operations to develop the mine 

 have been begun. 



Petroleum. Petroleum-wells have been dis- 

 covered thirty-two miles from Mendoza in the 

 Cachenta mountain district. 



ARIZONA. Territorial Government, The fol- 

 lowing were the officers of the Territory dur- 

 ing the year : Governor, 0. Meyer Zulick ; 

 Secretary, James A. Bayard ; Treasurer, C. B. 

 Foster; Auditor, John J. Hawkins: Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Charles M. 

 Strauss; Commissioner of Immigration, Cam- 

 eron H. King. Chief-Justice of Supreme Court, 

 James H. Wright ; Associate Justices, William 

 W. Porter, Willliam H. Barnes. 



Legislation. The fourteenth Territorial Leg- 

 islature convened January 10, and was in ses- 

 sion till March 11. One of its first acts was to 

 create a code commission to collate and perfect 



