L82 



CHILI. 



There were 2 second-class cruisers buildinp in 1897. 



The U-lted cruiser u Esmeralda " has a coal cajpa- 



f only 550 tons, but is enrfned for a s|* 



oti and has as formidable a battery 



r twice her sue. The new neconci-olaw < 



,:nl " President. 



to,** built in Ft . meni ..f 2,080 



IOM and* mad of 19 knots, The uianeo 



...tda," built in Kit-land !- replace the vessel 



.m- whieh wa> Mink in tin- rivil war, has 



'.a' in. n' -in- 1 a 8|XMMl < 



knot.-. jwdo fleet comprises 4 new destroy- 



.-.mstrurtal in Kngland. 5 first-class a 

 third -clo>, torpedo boats, and some smaller ones 



MSB. 



( .m nir rre and Production. About half the 



population i> Mi|.|H,rted by agriculture. The wheat 



000 cattle mill ?.( N (0.000 sheep are raised annually. 

 Chili is an important mining country, producing 

 400,000 quintals of copper. 160.000 qointak f >il- 

 rer, 500 kilogrammes of p-id. and 10.000.000 tott 

 of coal every year, with manganese ntnl minor 

 products. Most important of all is the nitrate in- 

 dustry. The nil rat fields nnl-ra. -JIIL' s !.l?7 ln-- 

 Ure** are estimated to cont a i >.MM ,,uin- 



tals of nitrate. The product was 1,082,285 quintals 

 in 1*!4. The total value of imports in 1894 was 

 54,483.616 pesos: of exports, 78,040,490 pen* <f 

 the former sum 12.058,185 pesos represent article- 

 of food, l".i:;s.328 pesos raw materials for manu- 

 -. JM.~Mi.441 |csos machinery. 7,:W2.?J1 pesos 

 manufa- ' !.<U1 pesos domestic ar- 



.'9,268 pesos railroad materials. l.s!)!M17 

 pesos articles of clot him: and personal adornment. 

 $98320 pesos wines aim beverages, 801,311 pesos 

 objects of art and taste, 686,222 pesos drugs, I 



llaneous mere-hand i- ^'.'.171 



pesos specie and bank notes. The exports of ni- 

 trate were : pesos in value ; iodine, 3,332,- 

 780pesos; other minerals, 13.265,987 pesos; wheat, 

 3,302.014 pesos ; other agricultural produce, ~< 

 082 pesos; manufa* .'-':. pesos: miseella- 

 neous merchandise, --sos: specie, 529,068 

 pesos ; foreign exports, 707,361 pesos. I hit i.-s were 

 imposed on 34,007,263 pesos worth of tin- import- 

 ant! 48,060,293 pesos of exports. Of the exports of 

 nitrate 39 per cent, goes to (in-many. 17 per cent. 

 to France, 13 per cent, to the United State*, 11 per 

 -at Britain. 11 per cent, to Belgium, and 

 9 per cent, to other countries. 



The division of the foreign trade among foreign 

 countries in 1894 is shown in the following table, 

 giving the value of imports and exports in pesos: 



mmm 



<,:.., Britain 

 Germany.... 



,/' ; "** 



: m 



Ai 



L. 



Republic 



-MM BD9 





MUJM 



uaojm 



BB6341 

 l40gM 



lines 13,080.833 pesos. There \\.-r, i::r, miles 



of new railroads in process of COIM ruction in is..,.-,. 



The raph lino had a total 



lenirth of .M;: mile-, on .Ian. 1. lsi.~i. \\ it h s.:t:w 

 mile> of win-. Tlie nuinin-r "f di>patche> ii 

 a> 1 .n i UMM. K'ailroa.l ami telegraph comi . 



had 4,-,<MHml- ,pi, lines. 



The , M ,stal traHic of IS'.M coinprivrd 



:.:'.: : - !'.M::'.l | ------ ; 



-.3.35.M12 



i. '>,?.;-, 

 l,47MM 



178,489 



11 7. M:, 



Nariifation. The number of vessels in the for- 

 rade entered at ( 'hilian ports during 1894 was 

 .'.'369,860 tons; the numlK-r cleared was 

 1,681, of 2,555.540 tons. The tonnage entered in 

 the coasting trade aggregated 6,254,836. The com- 

 mercial marine on .Ian. 1. 1 Mir,. comprised 146 sail- 

 reaaftb,of 75,711 tons, and 42 steamers, of 29,- 

 !'::! torn 



Communications. Tho railroa'K of Chili in 

 1894 had a total length of 1,782 miles of which the 

 Government owned 686 miles, and 600 miles will re- 

 vert to the Government, The capital expend- 

 Govern ment lines was 64,459,179 pesos, and on 



Political :ind I iiKineial Mlairs. At ll, 

 ^inni: neral improvement was notice- 



iinn-n-ial situation, and a return of 

 confidence that had IN-CH \\ ant iliu' Hlice tin 

 Illtiol II (rf I he paper II 



had a lavoraMe inll , , iall\ on the f- 



community, although some of the "landowners had 

 I'cen .llip-d to sacrifice their proprrty. Tl 

 tlement <.f all the remaining Kn^'li-h clann- ;ni-m k ' 

 out of the revolution removed a son- ..lion 



lioth to the waiting claimants and to tl, 

 who felt nnnoyed that t \MIIL' lh. 



tlllies to the fa\oral'le c<,liditiolis of the l 



should demand "in| >-n-al in from the ( i< >\ i mneiit 

 which no Chilian could claim for like injuries 

 : fjue-tion of frontiers with the Ar^entn 

 jul)lic made marked progress toward an amieal.le 

 -ettl.-ment. By the treaty of April. isjMi. ai 



pUte arising IretWeeli the Comm i--loh.-i- eh-a-.-.l in 



marking the boundary line wa 

 the < t hiecn of England for arbitration. Altlioii.u'h 

 the people of each country held tenaeioii-ly to their 

 different interpretation- of the old boundary i 

 they were di.sposrd to rely on t he a ward of juris! s 

 ratfier than appeal, as they were wont, to the arbit- 

 rament of war to bear out t heir pretensions. The 

 new war ships arrived from Kn::land made Chili 

 onre more the chief naval power of South Ai: 

 Both export* and imports had been incn-ar-inu'. and 

 considerable fun-iu'ii capital was brought into the 

 country. Thi< rec.,very. ho\\r\rr. \\a- of short 

 duration. Before a third of the \ear had j 

 stagnation in business ami contraction !' credits 

 ensued, and the Government had to face a probable 

 deficit. The owners of the nitrate mines had 

 shipping for three month-, on ae.-ount of the low 

 pri<-e in Europe, which was due partly to overpro- 

 duction and partly to a decrease in consumption, 

 the place of nitrate- beini: taken in Kurope and 

 the United Slat.- by artificial manure-. A- tin- 

 export duty on nitrates has furnished half th> 

 nue of the Chilian (Jovernment. it created embar- 

 rassment when this source of income w.i- , ,,t off 

 altogether. To aid in discovering new outlet 

 thi- product, the (iovernmeiit remitted the duty on 



- sent to China and .lapan. sent sp- 

 to the Tnited Stat<-s. ami promised to spend x i 

 a year or more in making it- u-efulm known in 

 tr-h market-. A m-\v eommercial treaty wa< con- 

 cluded with Brazil in May. P.y th<- conversion law- 

 all bank notes were to lie withdrawn before ti 

 of the year. As a serious restriction of the 

 lating medium was feared, the .Mini-ter of Kinanee 

 proposed to Congress to allow banks to 



OSl di-|oHJis with the (Jovernment of '." 

 t-nt. of their face value in gold and s( > per cent, in 

 b<, nds, while the Government should under! 



m any of these notes on demand in jr"ld. 

 When Congress was opened on June 1 the 1 

 dent of the republic said that th unplo 



funds to meet the estimated deficit of $6,0<i' 

 The budget for I*'.)* -ho wed a prospective sur|'In. 

 expenditure being cut down by $3,000,(KH t 

 100,000, while revenue wa- calculated at $?!' 

 000, an increase of $:*,700.0(H). The cum n. 

 version was already practically completed, t h 



