During the year 1891, 20,328 licenses were paid for by trade-houses, industries, professions and work-houses. The nationality of those who asked for their trade patent was: Natives 4,134 Argentines 370 Brazilians 166 Italians 7,995 Spaniards 5,336 French 1,324 English 130 Germans 173 Swiss 186 Portuguese 116 Belgians 7 Swedish 7 Danes 5 Norwegians 6 Dutch 1 Austrians 52 North-Americans 28 Russians 6 Peruvians 1 Chilians 12 Paraguayan 11 Other Nations 262 Among the most important industries, must be mentioned: the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, the _saladeros_ or killing grounds, the spirits, wine and beer manufactures, flour mills, the starch and vermicelli manufactures, the soap, suet and oil manufactures, the gas, electric light and water companies, the match, brick, shoe and wooden shoe manufactures, the tan-yards, saw-mills, etc., etc. There are in Montevideo a great many important spirit, wine, brandy, beer and match manufacturers; and there are sixteen of them in the departments. The Montevideo manufacturers give an annual product of: Alcohol, 2,000,000 litres. Beer, 1,700,000 " Matches, 55,000 grosses. Wine and Spirits, 400,000 litres. According to the declarations made for the payment of the license tax, the capital represented by the trade houses, industries, etc, is $89,329,539. The clerks employed by all these houses, manufactures and industries, were 11,639, and the workmen of various nationalities 16,621. As a demonstration of the industrial importance and progress of the country, among many other establishments, the description of which cannot be made here for want of space, one may mention the great brewery _Germania_, established under the direction of Engineer J. A. Capurro. It occupies a magnificent building situated in the "Playa Honda" in front of the Montevideo Bay. Its construction and interior distribution completely corresponds to all the technical necessities required for beer manufacturing. It is provided for night working, with electric light produced by a eight-horse dynamo and 68 lamps. The establishment was built and is worked by a stock company. It receives the waters of the River Santa Lucia, the very purest, the same that is drank in the town. It possesses, nevertheless, two immense filters, so as to make the water still purer.