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
1
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 : —
—
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-
