The Nevada Democrat., 1861-01-15
THE pRoGREss OF CHILE.

hatS NuHcuu papers cOut0lu uuulDcE VI
articles upon the publication of the census
statistics of that country, for the decade of
years from 1910 to 1859. 1t has long been
known that Chile isa prosperous aud or
derly country, with better prospect for
the future than any other part of Spanish
America but the late census gives us
still more favorable impression than we had
before.
1t is difficult for MS at this distance to un-
derstand why it is that in Chile the govern
ment is strong and the people so devoted
to the career of peace and industry, while
in the adjacent States of Peru, Bolivia aud
the Argentine provinces there is constant
civil war. The people are the same blood,
the same language, the same customs, the
same religion and religious forms, and their
fathers were bred under the same colonial
system. The climate is similar, the mine
raj and agricultural resources are similar,
their forms of government are nearly the
same, the educational condition does not
differ greatly, yet peace and industry reign
in Chile, while discord and disorder have
the sway in the adjacent countries.
Not only peace and industry reign in
Chile, but the country is on the fairest road
to prosperity, and is advancing at a rate Of
progress that would be creditable to any
State. The government is extremely re-
spectacle, in point of ability, prudence and
statesmanlike policy ; Valparaiso continues
to grow in commercial Importance the
farming industry of the country wants no
thing but market the mines are the most
thoroughly and regularly worked on the
American continent; important railroads
and telegraphs have been undertaken; the
credit of the Government is better in the
European money market than that of the
most of the American States the news
papers of Valparaiso and Santiago would
do no discredt to any city the colleges Of
the country are respectable, and some Of
their professors and authors are quoted as
authorities in our best scientific works.
The population of Chile is about l,500,-
000 but we do not find the exact figures in
the articles to which we have referred
There are 1900 priests and monks 1900
soldiers and marines GA lawyers and no.
taries 100000 miners; 10000 workers in
wood; $50 physicians, apothecaries and
midwives 260, 900 tillers of the soil $4,000
ervants and $4,000 seamstresses. The
births during ten years amounted to SO, 1873
annually, Of which one-fourth were ilegiti-
mate--a very large proportion. Austria,
which has greater share Of illegitimate
children than any other European land, has
one in 5 France has one in IL Prussia
one in l3 England one in IA. During the
ten years. Chile had an annual average Of
33,263 deaths, aud 1O,4O0 marriages
The annual increase of the inhabitants is
estimated to be one In 40, and the pOpula-
ton will double at that rate in 81 years. II
is supposed that there were 100000 souls in
Chile when it became independent, in 1910.
In 1885 the first census, mot very correct
One) was completed. showing total popu-
lation Of l,Ol0, 1882. The census of l843
showed total of 1893, ,S0l souls that Of
1884, l,439, ,l20 souls.
The most populous province is that Of
Santiago, with 272.409 inhabitants then
Cochagua, with l92,7O4 Maule, with l5G,-
245 Valparaiso, ll6 645 Aconcagua ILL.,
5O4 CoquimbO, 1lO,530 Conception, l4O,-
29l then Ataeama, Nuble, Talca, Chloe,
Aranco, Valdivia and Lianquihue (of which
last six provinces we have not the exact
number of inhabitants) complete the list Of
the provinces