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ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



ARIZONA. 



were 408,120 head in 1895, 382,539 in 1896, and 

 238,121 in 189? ; but while the total decreased, the 

 exports to Kurope sh.>w a progressive gain. 



Navigation. There were 11.830 vessels, of 

 7,115.4li? tons, entered at Argon tine ports from 

 foreign <-on iii ries during 1896, of which 7,791. of 

 .us. were steamers, and 4,039, of 783.588 

 tons. sailing vessels. The merchant navy in 1895 

 con-i-ted of 7.") steamers, of 21,613 tons, and 125 

 sailing ve.-seK of 2*.2-ll ions. 



Railroads. 1'osls. and Telegraphs. - The 

 length of railroads in operation in 1896 was 8,998 

 mill's. The capitalized gold value was $510,643,296. 

 of which $56,331,063 represented lines belonging to 

 the eon fed. -rat ion, $83.859,062 provincial lines, 

 $113,311,995 guaranteed lines, and $257,141.178 

 private lines. The gross earnings in 1896 were 

 $31.23S.32U. and expenses $15,934,466. 



The total length of telegraph lines in 1896 was 

 25.:: 15 miles, with 59.060 miles of wire, of which 

 11,0243 miles of line and 23.572 of wire belonged to 

 the Federal Government. 7,070 miles of line and 

 1*. 71 7 of wire to the railroads, 4,428 miles of line 

 and 7,462 of wire to telegraph companies, and 2,824 

 miles of line and 9,309 of wire to other companies 

 and individuals. The number of dispatches in 1896 

 was 4,953,887. 



The number of letters and packets that passed 

 through the post office during 1896 was 177,183,190, 

 of which 19,871.664 were foreign. The receipts from 

 the postal service and Government telegraphs were 

 $30.069.799, and expenses $27,169,020. 



Political. Gen. Julio Roca was proclaimed 

 President and Dr. Quirno Costa Vice-President for 

 the term beginning Oct. 12, 1898. A treaty of ar- 

 bitration between Italy and the Argentine Repub- 

 lic was signed at Rome on July 23. In any dispute 

 each government will choose a judge, who shall not 

 be a citizen or resident of either of the contending 

 countries, and a third judge, the president of the 

 arbitration court, will be chosen by the two others, 

 or. in case of their disagreeing, by the President of 

 the Swiss Confederation or the King of Sweden and 

 Norway. There shall be no appeal from the decision 

 of the tribunal, the execution of which is left to the 

 honor of the signatory powers. Under special con- 

 ditions, however, the award maybe open to revision. 



In August Congress voted new internal duties on 

 alcohol, wine, and oils, calculated to produce $8,000,- 

 000 a year. The Government asked Congress to au- 

 thorize the sale or lease of the national railroads. 



The Chilian Boundary. The dispute with Chili 

 regarding the boundary in Patagonia became criti- 

 cal on several occasions in 1898, and both govern- 

 ments made military and naval preparations. The 

 boundary commissioners were unable to agree, upon 

 the line between the Argentine Republic and Chili 



I ause the treaties of July 23, 1881, and Aug. 22, 



1888, and the protocol of .May 1, 1893, confounded 

 the hydrographies] with the orographieal prin- 

 ciple of delimitation. The protocol says that all 

 lands, lakes, ami rivers east of the highest crests of 

 the Andes which divide the waters shall belong for- 

 ever to the Argentine Republic. Since in this region 

 low elevations in the valleys form the water-parting 

 oftener than the ridges of the cordillera. while the 

 Andes themselves c.,n-i>t of a do/en parallel chains. 

 the treaty OOtltradictfl itself and is incapable of being 

 fulfilled without an agreement as to its moaning. 

 On Aiiril 27. 1*911. the two governments formally 

 agreed to submit any unsettled difficulties to the 

 award of the I'.riti-h (iovernment. Dr. Moreno met 

 Barras Arana. the Chilian commissioner, on Aug. 

 :id each drew tin a general line of demarcation 

 in accordance with the views of his iJovernment and 

 the knowledge obtained in recent explorations on the 

 spot, as was agreed between the two governments in 



May. The boundaries submitted by the two com- 

 missioners were irreconcilable. The Argentine 

 Government informed the British Government that 

 the whole question would be submitted to arbitra- 

 tion before receiving a note from the Chilian 

 Government requesting a prompt reference. The 

 Argentine Chamber authorized the Government to 

 mobilize 80,000 men so as to be prepared for a fail- 

 ure to secure a pacific solution. The Chilian Gov- 

 ernment also decided to mobilize 50,000 men and 

 obtained credits to the amount of $22,000,000, to be 

 met by additional taxation. Chili proposed unre- 

 stricted arbitration, but the Argentine Government 

 still held out for the strict application of the con- 

 tradictory terms in the treaties. 



ARIZONA, a Territory of the United States, or- 

 ganized Feb. 14, 1863; area, 113,020 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 9,658 in 1870; 40,440 in 1880; 59,620 in 1890; 

 and estimated at 101,000 in 1897. Capital, Phenix. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during the year: Governor, Myron H. 

 McCord ; Secretary, Charles H. Akers ; Treasurer, 

 C. W. Johnstone; Auditor, G. W. Vickers; Adjutant 

 General, R. A. Lewis ; Attorney-General, C. M. 

 Frazier; Superintendent of Education, A. P. Sher- 

 man : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Webster 

 Street ; Associate Justices, Richard E. Sloan. 

 Fletcher M. Doan, George R. Davis; Clerk, Lloyd 

 Johnston all Republicans. 



Finances and Valuations. In his report to the 

 Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year of 1897 

 Gov. McCord stated that the treasury was in a pros- 

 perous condition. The bonded and floating debt 

 at the first of the year aggregated $965,588.12, 

 leaving the net debt of the Territory $885,758.19, 

 the cash on hand being $79.829.93. The aggregate 

 value of lands was $9,678,273.33, and the value of 

 improvements thereon was $4,905,418.97. Railroad 

 property was valued approximately at $5,139,669.60. 

 More than 100,000 head of cattle were imported in 

 the year, of which 12,749 were admitted free of 

 duty. Internal-revenue collections during the year 

 aggregated $19,900. Goods were exported during 

 the year aggregating in value $1,032,414, an increase 

 of $90,635 over the previous year. The total valu- 

 ation of all assessable property was reported for 

 1898 at $31,473,359.96. Average valuations were as 

 follow : Lands, $1.56 per acre ; horses, per head, 

 $1824: mules, $22.73; cattle, $10.41; goats, $2; 

 hogs, $2.70; asses. $26.77; sheep, $2; the average 

 valuation for each mile of railroad was $5,071.02. 



^Law-abiding. It is claimed by the "Mining 

 and Industrial Reporter" that the Territory is one 

 of the most law-abiding regions of the country; 

 that life is as safe in the Territory as in New York 

 or Chicago, infractions of the law in Arizona be- 

 ing less in proportion to population than in either 

 of the cities named; that telegraphic reports of 

 crimes in the Territory do great injustice. 



Education. Gov. "McCord's report gave the 

 status of the public schools as follows: Enrollment, 

 13.361; school districts, 227 ; teachers. :>54 : children 

 of school age at the last census. 17. 127: average 

 length of school term. ii.:!7 months; average salary 

 paid teachers, $68.69; amount paid in salaries of 

 teachers. $155.991; total expenditures, $205,948; 

 valuation of school property, $4-l5.:>7!>. 



Mining. Gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, lime, 

 and coal are mined. The gold output for the year 

 last reported was valued at $5,200.000; silver, 

 1,650.530 ounces, which gave a return of $1,105,855 

 copper. 71.210.331 pounds, valued at $7,121,033 ; and 

 lead. 21.255.IKK) pounds, valued at $531.375. One 

 p'ld mine is quoted in value at $50.000,000, another 

 at $30,000,000. and there are many smaller proper- 

 ties that range in quoted value from $7,000,000 



