roads being planned. Peru buys and sells from the rest of the world, according to the latest statistics available, products valued in excess of $50,000,000. The imports from the United States in 1909 were $6,386,000, and the exports of that country $4,558,000,

making a total trade exchange with the United States of nearly $11,000,000. The products that were sent abroad were made up largely of minerals, sugar, cotton, rubber, wool, hides, rice, petroleum and coca.

ALVADOR has the unique characteristic of being the smallest

of the twenty-one American Republics, but it makes up for its limited area by its population. It has 1,700,000 inhabitants or 236 per square mile which is eight times the population per square mile of the United States of America (29.6). It is the most densely

populated country of the Western Hemisphere and is a little smaller than the State of New Jersey. Its exact extent is 7,225 square miles. It is a prosperous land and very productive. Its foreign trade, last year, amounted to $10,580,000 with a balance in its favor of $2,225,000. Its imports from the United States were $1,345,000

and its exports to that country $1,880,000, giving a total trade with the United States of $3,335,000. Its shipments to foreign lands included, in the order of their value, coffee, gold, silver, indigo, sugar, balsam, hides, tobacco and rubber. It has only about 100 miles of railway in operation but a number of new lines are being projected. Salvador is the only Central American country which does not touch the Atlantic as well as the Pacific. Its only coast line is that of the Pacific Ocean and its interesting capital, San Salvador, having a population of 60,000, is approached by railroad from the Port of Acajutla.

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RUGUAY is one of the most prosperous of the Latin-American countries. While its area of 72,000 miles is small, com

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pared to that of its two closest neighbors, Argentina and Brazil, it is yet larger than the States of New York and West Virginia com

bined, and has a population of 1,112,000. It is a land of exceptional agricultural fertility and possesses a strong strategic commercial location at the wide mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Montevideo, its capital, is a most attractive city with a population of 350,000. The Uruguayan government is expending nearly $10,000,000 on the construction of a harbor at Montevideo that will make it rank with the best ports of the world. Nearly all steamships running between southern South America, Europe and the United States, touch at Montevideo and it is only about 108 miles distant from Buenos Aires, the great capital of Argentina. Uruguay's prosperity is evidenced by its foreign trade which, last year, reached. the remarkable total of $86,000,000. Uruguay provides a market for the exports of the United States valued at a little more than $4,000,000 and it sold this country products to the extent of $5,708,814 making a total trade with the United States of nearly $10,000,000. The principal articles which Uruguay sends to other countries include frozen and canned beef, jerked beef, eggs, hides and skins, wool, hair, bones, tallow, barley, bran, Indian corn, flour, oats, wheat and linseed. This Republic has in operation over 1500 miles of railways while 341 additional miles will soon be under way. Uruguay is easily approached by good steamship accommodations either from Europe or the United States, and the traveler going from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires should plan to spend a few days in Montevideo.

ENEZUELA may be the last country according to the alphabet of the Latin-American Republics but is far from being least in area, resources and potentialities. Having an extensive coast line on the Caribbean Sea, it is easily accessible from the United States, and its capital city, Caracas, is an attractive point to be visited by Americans making the cruise of the West Indies and the Caribbean. This interesting city is only a short distance by rail from La Guaira, its port, and has a population of about

70,000. Venezuela's broad expanse includes nearly 400,000 square miles within which is a population of 2,664,000. Developed within measure of its possibilities, it could maintain 26,000,000. Its foreign trade, last year, approximated $26,730,000. To the United States it exported products valued at nearly $7,400,000 and imported from it to the extent of $1,700,000, making a total trade exchange

with that country of $9,100,000. The principal products which Venezuela sent abroad were, according to value, coffee, cacao, balata gum, rubber, hides and skins, gold, cattle, aigret plumes, asphalt, cotton seed, divi-divi and serhambi. The total length of railways in operation in Venezuela is.about 540 miles but there are numerous opportunities for construction which will open up its

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