THE ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION, CHICAGO, 1893 ++ PLEASE NOTE MAP. THE ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION, CHICAGO, 1893. GEOGRAPHY, RURAL INDUSTRIES, COMMERCE, GENERAL STATISTICS. BY CARLOS MARIA DE PENA AND HONORE ROUSTAN, Director of the General Statistics Office TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY J. J. RETHORE. MONTEVIDEO. 1893 NOTICE. 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 contains facts and particulars only relative to the year 1891, it is because complete general statistics covering the year 1892 are not yet to be had, as the "Board of Statistics" do not publish the "Annual" till the second quarter of the year 1893, and also because it has been considered better to conserve a certain general unity in the compiling of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, it was merely with the purpose of supplying to some deficiency. The time which the Commission has had to dispose has been very short for a work of this kind; the particulars that existed at the "Board of 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 the present work in due time, it is because the Director of the "Board of General Statistics" had already compiled nearly all of it, so that the only thing to be done has been to introduce a few short amplifications, sometimes to 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 particulars and information we had asked for, so as to give to the present work a greater novelty and a more seducing form--that, with a greater number of facts 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 social elements, and with all the new elements that will be created, owing to the benefits 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, and thinking that the translator, Mr. J. J. RETHORE, will finish his in the first fortnight of the next year, we have the honor of saluting the Honorable President 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:_