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 SHIPPING AND COMMUNICATIONS

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The following are the various classes of exports for three years :-

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1895

Dollars

1,004,479

27,474,987

3,735,776

328,402

1896

1897

Living animals

Animal products

Agricultural products

Other products ....

Dollars

1,490,528

26,418,596

2,018,985

474,975

Dollars

781,778

26,884,575

1,202,674

450,546

Totals ....

32,543,644

30,403,083

29,319,573

The following table gives the principal exports for three years : —

Year

Jerked Beef

Extract of Beef

Hides and Skins

Tallow

Wool

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1895 1896 1897

Dollars 4,921,524 4,561,799 4,312,904

Dollars

2,029,272 2,104,041 1,182,810

Dollars

7,290,477 6,707,130 6,633,981

Dollars

1,843,598 1,647,469 1,299,130

Dollars

10,252,492 10,284,055 12,402,802

The imports of coin in 1896 amounted to 8,918,521 dollars ; exports, 7,791,020 dollars; in 1897, imports, 3,035,679 dollars ; exports, 3,116,877 dollars.

Of the total imports in 1897, 17,028,773 dollars passed through Monte- video, and 20,168,047 dollars exports.

The commercial intercourse of Uruguay with the United Kingdom is exhibited in the following tabular statement, according to the Board of Trade Returns for each of the last five years : —

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1893

£ 131,362

1,499,030

1894

£ 267,101

1,488,433

1895

£ 460,946

1,348,626

1896 1897

Imports into U. K. from Uru- guay

Exjiorts of British produce to Uruguay ....

£ £ 316,109 ^ 339,904

1,434,956 ' 796,616

The chief articles of import from Uruguay into the United Kingdom in 1897 were hides, of the value of 69,707Z. ; tallow, 35,234Z. ; preserved meat, 30,514Z. ; wheat, 22,668Z. (192,928^. in 1895) ; wool, 93,220Z. ; caout- chouc, 29,468Z. The exports from the United Kingdom into Uruguay were cotton goods, value 261,928Z. ; woollens, 96,930Z. ; coal, 125,4807.; iron. wrought and unwrought, 68,059Z. ; and machinery, 18,441Z.

Shipping and Communications.

In 1895 Uruguay had 19 steamers of a total net tonnage of 4,608 tons, and 45*sailing vessels of a total net tonnage of 13,171 tons.

There entered at the port of Montevideo in 1897 from abroad 1,126 sea-