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 COMMERCE — SHIPPING AND COMMUNICATIONS

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grown in small quantities. On the high plateaux the area of the cattle- grounds (potreros) is about 758,640 acres. On December 31, 1914, there were in the Republic 655,386 head of cattle, 114,451 horses and mules, 402,124 sheep, 58,847 goats, and 176,515 pigs, making a total of 1,467,323. On December 31, 1915, the total was 1,470,200.

There are silver, gold, copper, iron and lead mint •<, bat owing to the lack of transport, mining is little developed. Chrome was discovered in 1916. In 1919-20 the ferro-chromium mines of the department of Jalapa produced 2,241,341 kilos ; of Estrada Cabrera, 11,352 kilos. The mines of Santa Rosa produced 680,770 kilos of mineral ore; the lead mines of Huehuetenango produced 1,249 quintals.

Commerce. Value of the commerce in pounds sterling for 5 years : —

Imports Exports

£ £

1,707,858 2,313,317

£ 1,798,314 1,661,946

£ 1,826,800 2,203,800

£ I.246.1M 4,4S3.827j

The values of the principal imports and exports in U.S. dollars for 2 years were : —

Imports

1917

1918

Exports

1918

1919

Dollars

Dollars

Dollars

Dollars

Cotton

1,492,141

Coffee

8,668,715

,

Foodstuffs.

437,697

Rubber

.'.,662

—

Linen, hemp, and

Timber

351,803

—

. jut^ ....

232,737

215,015

Hides

9,772

—

Paper, etc..

890,368

170,636

Bananas

851,615

681,312

Iron and steel.

399,609

067,486

Sugar

4S5.028

Leather

206,852

101,081

In 1919 imports from Great Britain amounted tfl 420,102/. ; from the United States, 1,700,855/. ; from France, 50,604 ; and from Japan, 35,811/.

Total trade between Guatemala and the U.K. for 5 years (according to Board of Trade returns) : —

Imports from Guatemala to U.K. Exports to Guatemala from U.K.

1917

1918

£ £ £

42,165 i 46.848 —

231,416

1919

£ £

315,291 280,694 397,985 S95.307

Shipping and Communications.

In 1919, 601 vessels of 696,885 tons (175 of 422,929 tons being American, and 129 of 58,888 tons British) entered and 576 vessels of 541,580 tons cleared the ports of the Republic. The chief ports on the Atlantic side are Puerto Barrios and Livingston ; on the Pacific side, San Jose', Champerico, and Ocos.

The International Railway of Central America was incorporated in 1912 and represents a consolidation of the Guatemala Railway (195 miles), the Guatemala Central Railway (139 miles), the Occidental Railway (51 miles >, and the Ocos Railway (22 miles). The company's nv\in lines at present sxtend from