4th. Riachuelo Colony. It is 10 kilometres distant, eastward, from Colonia del Sacramento. The first settlers have paid for all the land they had bought, being now the sole owners of it.
The formation and improvements of this colony are owed to the mere intelligence and work of the settlers. The land is of a very good quality and especially fit for wheat. The other plants like maize, barley, beans, potatoes, etc., give also a very good result. The settlers are mostly foreigners; and most of them are Italians. The colony possesses a large public building, which is destined to be the school and the church; besides this, it has also a national school of the first degree. The steam-mill that exists works only for the colony.
The above-mentioned colonies are situated in the Department of Colonia, and besides those, there are also the Arrue and Belgrano Colonies.
5th. Nuevo Berlin Colony. In the Department of Rio Negro there exists, since a few years, the Nuevo Berlin Colony. It has over 1,033 hectares in full culture, and possesses steam ploughs and all kind of agricultural machinery.
6th. Porvenir Colony. The colonies in the Department of Paysandu are the Villa Rosalia and Esperanza colonies, of recent foundation, and the so-called Porvenir colony. This last one is the most important one, counting already over 1,690 inhabitants. The languages spoken in the colony are Spanish and Italian. The soil cannot be better, and is fit for all kinds of culture. It possesses steam and water mills, a threshing Rausanes machine and a Hornsby. It has three schools—a public one and two private ones—and many societies, every one of them working for the improvement of the colony, and also other societies, the object of which is the purchase of all the necessary agricultural machinery. The public administration consists of a justice of peace, two attorneys, a police officer and a postoffice.
7th. General Rivera Colony. It is situated in the Department of Artigas, and has an extension of 4,987 hectares, over which they cultivate tobacco, maize, mani and mandioca; it counts now over a hundred families.
8th. Francisco Aguilar and Francisco Dastre Colonies. They are situated in the Department of Maldonado. The executive power, in the year 1883, ordered the necessary studies to be made for the demarcation of the land where the Francisco Aguilar Colony was to be established. Out of the 2,114 hectares which formed it, 1,359 were destined to general cattle feeding ground, and 755 to ploughing. The administration of the colony is intrusted to a directive commission.
In the year 1884 was established the Francisco Dastre Colony, in which 368 hectares are destined to ploughing and 59 to cattle feeding.
9th. Santa Teresa Colony. Situated in the Department of Rocha and founded on June 24th, 1885; it has 5,534 hectares, more or less.
10th. Igualdad Colony. It was founded in 1875, in the Department of Minas. It has a church and a school.