_Basketmakers_--From $1.00 to $1.20 per day, without board.
_Glaziers_--From $1.20 to $1.50 per day, without board.
The working day consists of eleven hours, an hour being discounted for dinner and resting.
The rent of the lodgings for workpeople in the town is five or seven dollars per month.
According to the declarations made in the year 1882 for the payment of the contribution tax, called the Immovable Contribution, the value of the property in the Republic rose to $211,991,679.00.
In the year 1890, eight years later, although the cattle and some other products were declared free from contribution tax the value of property was $265,871,559, an increase of $53,879,880.
The number of proprietors in 1882 were 39,590, and in the year 1890 50,189, an increase of 10,599.
By nationalities, the proprietors in 1890 were in the following proportion:
The declared value according to nationalities was as follows:
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:
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.
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
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