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The country round Iloilo is very fertile and is extensively cultivated. The annual crop of sugar is estimated at about a million piculs. Tobacco is also largely culti- vated, but having until 1882 been a Government monopoly which had to be sold at a fixed price, it has been greatly neglected and is of poor quality. Improvement in the cultivation may now be expected. Rice is grown on a considerable scale, but locusts are very plentiful in the island and often do great damage to the cane and paddy.
Typhoons visit the port about once a year and frequently work great havoc. Earthquakes, however, seldom occur. Iloilo is about 250 miles distant from Manila. Iloilo has greatly increased in importance of late years. The chief article of export is sugar, of which 1,753,753 piculs were shipped in 1885 as against 663,940 piculs in 1884. The principal traders are Chinese mestizos, who are very numerous in the port.
The island of Negros is extremely fertile and contributes three-fourths of the sugar shipped from Iloilo, the quality of which is improving very much every year.
The imports in 1884 reached a value of $1,984,842, as compared with $1,377,978 in 1883, and the exports $2,546,007, as compared with $5,323,570 in 1883. There was a considerable recovery in the exports in 1885, but the Customs returns for that year have not yet been published.
DIRECTORY.
Colonial Government. GOBIERNO POLITICO Y MILITAR. Gobernador-Pedro Gonzalez Montero Auxiliares-P. Miranda, A. de Barceló Comandante-Gabriel Gonzalez
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JUNTA SUBALTERNA DE ALMONEDAS. Presidente. El Gobernador de la Provincia Vocales--El Juez de la. Instancia, El Ad- ministrador de Hacienda Publica, El In- terventor de Hacienda Publica
JUNTA DE INSTRUCCION PRIMARIA. Presidente-El Gobernador Vocales-El Juez de la. Instancia, El Cura Parraco, El Administrador de Ha- cienda Publica
JUNTA DE SANIDAD. Pres dente-El Gobernador Vocales-El Capitan del Puerto, El Ad- ministrador de la Aduana, El Medico Naves, El Medico Militar, El Medico Titular, El Juez, El Comandante Jefe del 1o. Di-trito de Guardia Civil, El Cura Parroco, El Capitan Jefe de la fuerza de Carabineros, El Ingeniero Jele de Obras Publicas, Fl In rpr te Secretario FlInt d la Sanidad, El Subdelega lo de Vete- rinario, El Subdelegado de Farmacia Secretario-Auxiliar de Fomento
COMANDANCIA DE MARINA. Capitan del Puerto-Josê Warleta Ayudante R. G. Berduga
ADMINISTRACION DE ADUANA Y HACIENDA Publica.
Administrador-E. Mellado Interventor E. Causino Oficial 50.-R. Atiensa Almacenero--E. Cedrun
Vista-S. Martinez (ausente) Auxiliar de Vista-C. Martinez
SEMINARIO CONCILIAR DE JARO. Rector J. Miralda Vice Rector-D. Viera Procurador-Ylleras
GEFATURA DE OBRAS PUBLICAS. Ingeniero-R. de Ros Ayudante Mayor-M. de Camara Ayudante 30.-M. Fayula Pagador-
ADMINISTRACION DE CORREOS. Administrador-P. E. Lopez Interventor-E. Castaner (ausente)
DISTRITO FORESTAL. Ayudante 30. Encargado-J. Centenera Guardamonte-M. Garcia
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