[ Eep. No. 564. ] 
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Of the 468,523 caballerias of land which compose the whole territory, 
38,276 are in a state of cultivation, and 9,734 in grazing ground and in 
unfelled woods, belonging to sugar and coifee estates. Of the first, or that 
part employed in plantations, which serve for nourishing the people, or for 
exportation, the following estimate may be made : 
In sugar cane - - - - 5,394 
coffee trees - - - - 5,761 
tobacco - - - - 1,389 
lesser or general cultivation - - 20,732 
the same on large estates - - 5,000 
Total, 38,276 caballerias. 
It appears that there is an area of 430,247 caballerias uncultivated in 
the whole island : some employed in raising and fattening animals, others 
in settlements .or towns, in mountains, roads, coasts, rivers, and lakes; but 
the greater part absolute deserts. 
The value of lands in private property has been valued already, in the 
following manner: . 
Original. 
32,857 caballerias in grazing grounds, for larger and for 
smaller cattle, halos and corrales, at ^100 
do in grazing grounds attached to estates, with 
enclosures, at ^1,000 - - - 
do in sugar estates, at ^1,500 - - 
do in coffee do do 
do in smaller cultivation, pro visions, &c. at ^2,000 
do in tobacco, at i^700 _ . _ 
10,952 
do 
15,300 
do 
9,200 
do 
20,732 
do 
2,778 
do 
$3,285,700 
10,952,000 
22,950,000 
13,800,000 
41,464,000 
1,944,600 
Total value of lands - ^94,396,300 
not including those in cocoa or cotton, which are supposed to be annexed 
to those above mentioned. 
The buildings, engines, materials of labor, and .other utensils of country 
estates, are mentioned in value, as follows : 
In the primitive pastures - - - - ^1,737,000 
pasture or grazing grounds of estates - - - 619,600 
sugar estates - - - - - - 29,835,000 
coffee do - - - - - - 20,000,000 
smaller cultivation - - - - , - 2,789,400 
tobacco . - - - - - - 622,850 
Total value of buildings, utensils, &c. - $55,603,850 
The value of the-different objects of cultivation are thus valued respect¬ 
ively : 
Sugar cane in the ground - - - - $6,068,877 
Coffee trees - - - , - - - 32,500,000 
Fruit trees, vegetables, &c., of smaller estates - • - 41,464,000 
The same on the larger estates - - - _ 5,476,700 
Tobacco plants - - - - - - 340,620 
Total value of plants -■ ^85,850,197 
