Along the coasts of the Republic, watered by the Atlantic Ocean and the River Plate, there are eleven lighthouses, established in the most convenient points, to guide and advise the sailors. To them must be attributed the notable diminution in the number of shipwrecks. =================+=========+=======+==============+=========== | | | | Situation | Light | Class | Luminous | Tax to | | | power | be paid -----------------+---------+-------+--------------+----------- Cape Santa Maria | flash | 1st | 18 miles | 2 cts. Polonio | steady | 3d | 15 & 16 " | 1-3/4 " Jose Ignacio | " | 3d | 15 " | 1 " Punta Brava | " | 4th | 8 " | 1 " Farallon | " | 3d | 15 " | 1 " Panela | " | 4th | 9 " | 1 " Colonia | turni'g | 3d | 12 " | 1 " Cerro | " | 1st | 25 " | 1 " Isle of Flores | " | 2d | 15 " | 1 " Banco Ingles | steady | 3d | 9 " | 1 " Punta del Este | flash | 2d | 16 & 18 " | 1 " =================+=========+=======+==============+========== Lazaretto. The Republic possesses one Lazaretto, established in the Isle of Flores, at a distance of 17 miles southeast from Montevideo. It is quite comfortable and provided with everything that may be required for disinfecting and fumigating luggage and correspondence. There is a telegraph and telephone line established between Montevideo and the Lazaretto. Interior Commerce. It has not yet been possible to calculate exactly and completely the interior commerce of the Republic, between Montevideo and all the other Departments. Statistics only give the figures representing the cattle and rural products imported to Montevideo by the Departments and that come by railway for local consumption and export. This commerce gave, during the last five years, a total of 143,446 carts, that is to say a yearly middle term of 28,689. There arrive daily to the Montevideo markets, by railroad and by the rivers, great quantities of skins, (oxen, horses, sheep) wool, horns, bones, tallow, ostrich feathers and other products of cattle industry, and among rural products great quantities of corn, wheat, flour, canary-seed, barley, mustard-seed, potatoes, garlick, French beans, onions, pumpkins, eggs, butter, fowl, cheeses, paving and lime stone, spirits and many other goods it would be too long to mention here. There is an important increase every year in the quantity of cattle destined to local consumption, to the Montevideo saladeros and export. Trade-Houses, Industries, Professions.