THE
ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY
AT THE
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION,
CHICAGO, 1893
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—AT THE—
World's Columbian Exhibition,
CHICAGO, 1893.
GEOGRAPHY, RURAL INDUSTRIES, COMMERCE, GENERAL STATISTICS.
—BY—
—AND—
HONORE ROUSTAN, Director of the General Statistics Office
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY J. J. RETHORE.
MONTEVIDEO.
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1893
Montevideo, December 31st, 1892.
To the Hon. President of "Chicago Exhibition" Executive Committee:
On delivering the Spanish text of these notes and statistical inquiries,the compiling of which we have taken under our care as a patriotic duty,it is convenient to observe that, if the present work principally containsfacts and particulars only relative to the year 1891, it is because completegeneral statistics covering the year 1892 are not yet to be had, as the"Board of Statistics" do not publish the "Annual" till the second quarterof the year 1893, and also because it has been considered better to conservea certain general unity in the compiling of facts and particulars. If,in a few special cases, any particulars of the year 1892 have been quoted, itwas merely with the purpose of supplying to some deficiency.
The time which the Commission has had to dispose has been veryshort for a work of this kind; the particulars that existed at the "Boardof Statistics" had to be used, and it was impossible to get any new ones,at least as completely and as quickly as it was required; and that if,notwithstanding so many difficulties, it has been possible to deliver thepresent work in due time, it is because the Director of the "Board ofGeneral Statistics" had already compiled nearly all of it, so that the onlything to be done has been to introduce a few short amplifications, sometimesto change the order, and some others to make a few important corrections.
The only thing we are sorry for, is not to have received all the particularsand information we had asked for, so as to give to the present work agreater novelty and a more seducing form—that, with a greater number offacts and particulars, might reveal what is, what can be, and what is to be,one day or other the Oriental Republic, with all its economical and socialelements, and with all the new elements that will be created, owing to thebenefits of peace and owing to the work and energy of the inhabitants,under the protecting shield of a severe and provident Administration.
Having concluded this work which was committed to our care, andthinking that the translator, Mr. J. J. Rethore, will finish his in the firstfortnight of the next year, we have the honor of saluting the HonorablePresident with all our greatest consideration and esteem.
HONORE ROUSTAN.
CARLOS M. DE PENA.
Minister of Foreign Relations,
Montevideo, Jan. 27, 1893.
To the Consul-General:
The Government has this day issued the following decree: Ministry