18 AMERICAN LUMBER IN FOREIGN MARKETS. 



GENERAL BUILDING. 



Qnite a number of buildings are now being constructed in Nogales, 

 but there is no construction of railroads at present in this district. 



EXTENSION OF TRADE. 



With the excessive American duty removed on lead ores, and the 

 return to an ad valorem duty on cattle, I believe that Sonora would 

 become a much greater purchaser of American products in the future. 

 There are merchants in Hermosillo and Gvaymas who purchase from 

 $100,000 to $500,000 worth of merchandise annually, yet very few of our 

 commercial salesmen go beyond Xogales, thus leaving all this immense 

 business to be secured by our European competitors. 



EEUBEN D. GEORGE, 



Vice- Consul. 



NOGALES, December 30, 1893. 



VERA CRUZ. 



NATIVE WOODS. 



The native woods are: Mahogany, ebony, cedar, almond, hazel, bal- 

 sam, passion flower, guachichil (a hard wood), also, laurel, weeping 

 willow, manchinille, birds-eye, violet wood, rosewood, lignum vitas, 

 primrose, sopota both white and black (a wood of fine grain), indigo. 

 Annatto, Brazil wood, logwood, green ebony, mastic, mangrove, fustic 

 tawney wood, mountain hyssop, archil, madder. All these woods grow 

 in this consular district, but only a few of them are much used. 



KINDS OF LUMBER USED. 



The kinds used are: For building purposes cedar, mahogany, and 

 yellow pine. The pine conies from the United States and is preferred 

 to native lumber. My observation leads me to suppose that cedar and 

 mahogany are used, where heavy timber is required, and pine where- 

 ever inch lumber is used. More pine is used than cedar and more 

 cedar than mahogany. Some of the other woods are used in the manu- 

 facture of chests and fine furniture, but these are too expensive for 

 ordinary use. 



IMPORTS OF LUMBER. 



There is no lumber imported from any foreign country but the United 

 States, and all lumber from there consumed here, comes from Piisca- 

 go ula, except that used in the manufacturing of soap boxes, which 

 comes in shooks from the port of New York, being put together here, 



There is quite an extensive trade in this kind of material. 



