Arizona republican., 1899-08-24

appropriations for completing the
 tunnels required for this purpose en-
 courage the belief that it will soon be completed and through land transpor- taticr thus given between the Pacific and the Atlantic at this point
 Peru. which stretches northwardly from Chile, has also an area equiva- lent to that of California, Oregon and
 Washington combined, being 463,74: square miles and a population slightly greater than that of the state of Texas, being 2,621, 900. The imports of Peru
 which amount s737. .S56, or 915 per cent
 was from the United States, while s, ,060, ,736 was from the United King
 dom, S1,370, ,S80 from Germany, and
 5S5,536 from France The chief pro auctions are cotton, coffee and sugar. Cinchona, india rubber, dyes and me dicinal plants are also features of the products. The foreign commerce, which is chiefly with Great Britain and Germany, is carried on from several
 ports, of which the principal are
 Callao and Mollondo. The 1897 inn
 ports are given at 1S,0O4,048 sols;
 (vaiue of sol, 43.4c.); the chief exports are sugar, silver ore, copper ore, cof- fee, wool, rubber, cocaine and coca leaves. Over one-third of the inn ports into Peru are from Great Brit ain, one-sixth from Germany and one ninth from France. The chief exports from Great Britain to Peru in 1897 were woolens, cottons, iron wrought and unwrought and machinery.
 Ecuador which lies directly north of Peru, has an area of 10000 square miles, about equal to that of Ohio, h. diana and Illinois combined, and a population of 1,272,O0O. Although ly- ing directly under the equator, the great elevation of it's table-lands gives very considerable variety to it's pro- ductions. Coffee, cocao, rice. sugar, rubber, cabinet woods, chemicals and minerals are it's chief products and ex- ports. Its chief imports are cotton and other tissues. provisions, manu- factures of iron and steel, clothing and mineral oil. Fronting as it does only on the Pacific, it's distance by water from the easter1 part of the United States is very great, and as a consequence its purchases are largely from European countries. The exports from the United States to Ecuador have never reached $1,OO0,OG0 annu- ally; the nearest approach being in 1891, when the total was S9O3, ,159, though that of 1898 was S855,1 ,193. Ac- cording to the message of the presi- dent of Ecuador delivered in 1898, the imports Of 1898 amounted to 1S,OO4 ,04S sucres (value of sucre in 1897, 474c; present value, 43.4c). British ex- pcrts to Ecuador in 1897 amounted to $2,00O0OO the chief articles being cot ton goods. s1,35O.0O0; woolens, s2OO,- 000, an diron wrought and unwrcught, s13O,OOO
 Bolivia being entirely an interior country and having no seaport, the official statistics are fragmentary and largely estimates. Imports and ex- ports pass chiefly through Autofa- gasta, Africa and MolIendo on th., Pa ciic coast. and in smaller quantities through the eastern river ports, Porto Suraz and Villa Bella The total i'm ports in 1897 are estimated at 24,467,- 100 bolivianos (value Of boliviano, 43.4c)- The chief imports are pro- visions, hardware, spirits, cottons, woolens, silks and clothing, and the chief exports are silver, tin, copper, coffee and rubber Bolivia has an area of 567,36O square miles, or con greater than that of the en- tire group of southern states east of the Mississippi river, with a popula- ton of 2,019,549, or considerably less than that of North and South Carolina combined.