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the usual cargoes of cotton, sugar, molasses, 

 and rice to that port. Raw material is returned 

 manufactured, and large imports are received 

 through New York. The average yearly 

 receipts of wool are 30,000,000 pounds, the 

 immense wool trade of Texas passing through 

 the port ; and of hides, upward of 12,000,000 

 pounds. The trade in tropical fruits of Central 

 and South America, originated a few years ago, 

 has increased with steady growth, and is now 

 the largest single item of foreign importation ; 

 50,000 hunches of hananas were imported in 

 1880. For the past year 2,500,000' bunches 

 were imported, against 1,421,145 bunches in 

 1887; and 6,000,000 cocoa-nuts, against 2.449,- 

 915 of the year previous. The grain trade with 

 the interior is fluctuating. The total value of 

 domestic produce received by river, lake, and 

 rail for the year ending Aug. 31, 1888, was 



i74.393.* By United States Custom- 

 House statement, the imports of foreign goods 

 for 1888 were $11.558,562; exports, $80,698,- 

 062 ; customs receipts, $2,791,984. The foreign 

 exports for the year were $504,808 ; transship- 

 ments to Mexico, $2,085,957 ; imported com- 

 modities entered without appraisement for 

 transportation to interior points, $2,756,858. 

 The number of vessels clearing the port for 

 the year ending July 31 was 1,031, with a 

 tonnage of 1,150,430 tons, and 1,060 vessels 

 entered, of 1,151,715 tons. The number of 



'.s belonging to the port at same date 

 were 437 : gross tonnage, 50,350. The manu- 

 factures have largely increased, outstripping 

 the commerce. The capital invested in 1870 

 was $5.429,140: in 1880, $8,565,303; in 1888, 

 $21,667,670. In 1880 there were 915 estab- 

 lishments, against 2,185 at present; and 4.411 

 hands were employed, against 23,865 to-day, 

 of whom 6.270 are women. The yearly wages 

 are $8,242.599, slightly less than the entire 

 capital in 1880. The products are valued at 

 $41,508,546. Raw material of all kinds is in 

 close proximity, and transportation to factory 

 and market is cheap. Exemption from taxa- 

 tion and license was secured for ten years by 

 the Constitution of 1879, extended in April 

 last for a similar period. The principal ad- 

 vance has been in the manufacture of boots 

 and shoes, of which there are 226 establish- 

 ments ; in men's clothing, manufacture of jeans 

 having been recently introduced ; in foundries 

 and machine-shops, which supply most of the 

 machinery for Southern cotton, rice, and sug- 

 ar mills ; in lumber, malt liquors, artificial 

 ice. and fertilizers ; in rice-cleaning and pol- 

 ishing and sugar-refining. Hawaiian sugar is 

 imported for this purpose in addition to Cuban. 

 There are two large refineries and a suaar ex- 

 change. The tobacco production has doubled. 

 For 55 establishments in 18SO there are at 

 present 188, and 33.120,667 cigars and 33,888,- 

 245 cigarettes were manufactured during the 

 year, while 1,683,638 pounds of manufactured 

 tobacco, 141,916 of periqne, and 37.824 of 

 ennffs complete the output. There is also in- 



crease in manufacture of cotton goods. Other 

 industries include artificial limbs and flowers 

 bags, bagging, boxes, bricks, brooms and 

 brushes, canned goods, carriages and wagons, 

 cars, cisterns (a local industry), confectii 

 coffins, corks, corsets, cotton-seed oil, china, 

 cordials and sirups, distillation of pine, drugs, 

 dye?, flags, food, furniture, hardware, hair- 

 work, glycerine, hammocks, hosiery, moss, 

 mattresses, mineral waters, perfumeries, pot- 

 tery, saddles and harne. -'->ap. sails, 

 shot, trunks, tinware, and vinegar. The clear- 

 ings of 14 banks (8 National, with capital of 

 $2.925,000, and one a United States depositary) 

 for the year ending August 31 were $448.016,- 

 066, an increase of $41.447,618 over those of 

 1887. The balances are $52,970,805. The in- 

 surance companies number 16. and there is a 

 State lottery with a capital of $1.000,000. 

 There are 6 street-railroads and 7 daily news- 

 papers, 1 in the French and 1 in the German 

 language. In 1884 the churches, including 

 colored, numbered 171. Public schools were 

 established in 1840. The attendance is large. 

 Among other educational institutions are Tu- 

 lane University, the Jesuit College, and the Ur- 

 suline Convent. There are 17 public parks. 

 Hospitals, asylums, and infirmaries are numer- 

 ous. Architecture, for which the city was 

 never noted, has recently progressed. Drink- 

 ing-water is obtained from cisterns, and there 

 are water-works from the river. An artesian 

 well, owned by an ice-factory, yields 150,000 

 gallons from a depth of 600 feet. The Cus- 

 tom-House, next to the Capitol and Treasury 

 at Washington, is the largest public building in 

 the United States. Two opera-houses (one 

 French) and numerous theatres and clubs pro- 

 vide amusement during the season from Janu- 

 ary to May. A cotton exposition was held in 

 1884-'85, toward which Congress appropriated 

 $1,365,000, with $300,000 for exhibit. (See 

 "Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1884. page 572.) 



Ogden, Weber County, Utah, at the foot-hills 

 of the Wasatch mountains, near Great Salt 

 Lake, at the junction of Weber and Ogden 

 rivers. It has a population of nearly 9,000. 

 It is the center of five leading trunk lines of 

 railroad, receiving (on a basis of the first four 

 months of the year), 19,278.000 pounds of 

 freight, and forwarding 8.268,000 pounds. The 

 revenue to the railroads is $368,386.68. Other 

 roads are building, contracted for by Ogden 

 citizens. It is known as u Junction City." 

 The streets are wide, and there is natural sew- 

 erage, with running water on both sides of the 

 sidewalks. Water is supplied by mountain 

 springs and streams. The town is lighted by 

 electricity, and there are street-cars, telephones, 

 etc. The productions of the region include 

 iron, which abounds in brown and purple hem- 

 atite ores, cost of delivery, $1.50 to $2 a 

 ton ; wool ; salt, evaporated naturally from 

 the lake : lime, in mountain deposits : building- 

 stone ; and coal. Coke is furnished by gas- 

 works. Ogden possesses valuable water-power. 



