24,946 Natives representing $129,130,344.00 785 Argentine, " 6,343,074.00 4,620 Brazilians " 31,766,571.00 8,886 Italians " 34,620,749.00 6,828 Spaniards " 30,845,671.00 2,582 French " 16,470,055.00 451 English " 10,386,895.00 330 Germans " 1,879,265.00 344 Swiss " 1,073,996.00 204 Portuguese " 1,540,471.00 7 Belgians " 31,238.00 7 Swedish " 12,438.00 32 Austrians " 391,746.00 4 Danes " 50,524.00 24 North Americans " 242,941.00 3 Peruvians " 2,748 00 6 Chilians " 40,143.00 1 Dutch " 2,700.00 8 Paraguayans " 33,496.00 121 Other nations " 1,006,494.00 ______ _________________ 50,189 $265,871,559.00 ====== ================= The capital by nationalities gives the following proportion: Native $129,130,344, or 48.57 per cent. Foreign $136,741,315, or 51.43 per cent. Out of the declared values Montevideo represents 13,812 proprietors and $128,280,000.00; to the other departments, 36,377 proprietors and $137,591,559.00. Transfer of Property. The operations, which during the following years, have been declared in the Registers for the purchase and sale of immovable properties, give the following totals: 1885 $14,276,454 1886 9,859,703 1887 18,683,365 1888 35,108,468 1889 63,546,624 1890 29,273,198 1891 22,267,381 Mortgages. From the year 1888 to the year 1891 the yearly capital put out at interest with securities on land has been: In 1888 $12,788,660 " 1889 27,821,672 " 1890 22,569,360 " 1891 13,545,853 How Easily One Becomes a Land Owner. There exist in Montevideo great agencies, like the one called the "Industrial" created in the year 1874, by Mr. Francis Piria, the sole object of which is to make easy the division of the property in the capital and the neighborhood, by purchasing large zones of land and by dividing them into square _cuadras_, or fractions of over four English acres, when they belong to the town district, and into the best possible form outside. This agency has created many villages out of the Department of Montevideo, as "Recreo de las Piedras," "Joaquin Suarez," "Buenos Ayres," "Bella Italia" and many others.