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mineral oil, 2,354,720 gallons; of olive oil, 907,702 

 gallons; total value of oils, $6,817,780. 



The number of dozens of palm-leaf fans was 

 1,376,G82. The importation of parchment paper 

 was 1,061,113 pounds; of rags for paper stock, 

 92,382,167 pounds. Of slate pencils, 255,012 gross 

 were imported. The quantity of plaster of Paris, 

 or sulphate of lime, was 204,850 tons in the ground 

 state. Of platinum, 7,767 pounds were imported. 

 The quantity of plumbago was 20,597 tons. Among 

 provisions were 49,791 pounds of butter and 13,- 

 455,990 pounds of cheese, the chief import in this 

 ch: total value of provisions, $2,285,383. 



The quantity of rice imported free from the lla- 

 \\aiian Islands was 596,100 pounds, and of rice 

 paying duty 93,052,351 pounds, besides 23,031,440 

 pounds of rice flour, rice meal, and broken rice; 

 total value of rice, $2,279,036. 



The importation of salt was 410,792,440 pounds. 

 Of linseed, 67,379 bushels were imported. The 

 total value of seeds was $1,795,048. The imports 

 of raw silk were 30,004 pounds of cocoons and 

 11,259,310 pounds of reeled silk, besides 1,784,404 

 pounds of waste; and of spun silk in skeins, caps, 

 warps, or on beams, 2,420,552 pounds. The value 

 of raw silk imports was $45,329,7(50; of silk manu- 

 factures, $30,894,373. Of velvets and pile silks, 

 708,354 pounds were imported. The imports of 

 fancy soaps amounted to 809,299 pounds. Spices 

 imported free were 1,590,811 pounds of nutmegs, 

 13,085,333 pounds of black and white pepper in the 

 grain, and 19.652,052 pounds of other unground 

 spices; and on 4,516,709 pounds of spices duty was 

 paid; total value of spices, $3,401,265. The num- 

 ber of gallons of domestic spirits returned, subject 

 to the internal revenue tax, was 687,024 proof; 

 of foreign brandy brought in, 244,100; of other 

 foreign spirits, 1,550,896; total value of spirits, 

 $3,609,831. Of starch, 11,767,924 pounds were im- 

 ported. The import of straw was 5,495 tons. 

 Sugar imports comprised 14,435 gallons of molasses 

 free of duty and 7,010,633 gallons of dutiable ino- 

 hixses, 701,639,462 pounds of beet, 504,7-13,105 

 pounds of free cane, and 2,800,374,691 pounds of 

 dutiable cane sugar below No. 16 Dutch standard 

 in color, and 11,459,282 pounds above the stand- 

 ard. Of the raw beet sugar, 95,221,922 pounds 

 came from Austria, 15,142,873 pounds from Bel- 

 gium, 588,933.642 pounds, from Germany, 2,239,776 

 pounds from England, and 1,239 pounds from other 

 countries; of the raw cane sugar, 7,135,681 pounds 

 from England, 3,869 pounds from Canada, 3,907,387 

 pounds from Central America, 1,891,917 pounds 

 from Mexico, 200,479,351 pounds from the British 

 \\est Indies, 705,455,920 pounds from Cuba, 21,- 

 604,9SU pounds from the Danish Antilles, 3,378.637 

 pounds from the Dutch Antilles, 72,558,181 pounds 

 from Porto Rico, 122,206,692 pounds from Santo 

 Domingo, 89,684,600 pounds from Brazil, 1,210,991 

 pounds from Colombia, 119.715,600 pounds from 

 British Guiana, 13,265,520 pounds from Dutch 

 Guiana, 75,155,975 pounds from Peru, 11,386 

 pounds from elsewhere in South America, 432,768 

 pounds from China, 9,-840,433 pounds from British 

 India, 1,102,202.S54 pounds from the Dutch Kast 

 Indies, 16|,S!)S pounds from Hong-Kong, 1.076 

 pounds from Japan, 504,713,105 pounds from Ha- 

 waii, 49,490,542 pounds from P.ritish Africa, and 

 74,015,702 pounds from Egypt : total. 3.305.087.796 

 pounds, valued at $85,069,367. The lot a I imports 

 of beet and cane suar were 4,018,086.530 pounds, 

 value $100,250,974. The import of sulphur ore 

 wa.s 367.32S tons. 



The number of barrels of tar and pitch was 

 2.s-_!>. The importation of tea was S l.s |:,.lo7 

 pounds, of which 1.541.930 pounds wore exported 

 pgain, leaving 83,303,177 pounds for consumption, 



or 1.09 pound per head of population, of the total 

 value of $10,325,987 and an average price of 12.4 

 cents a pound. The importation of tin in bars, 

 blocks, pigs, or grain, or granulated was 70,158,915 

 pounds. Of tobacco, 5,561,068 pounds were im- 

 ported for cigar wrappers, 14,058,559 pounds of 

 lillers and Turkish and other leaf, and 460.55!> 

 pounds of cigars and cigarettes; total value of 

 unmanufactured tobacco, 19,619,627 pounds, $13,- 

 297,223; value of manufactures, $2,364,137. 



The import of varnishes was 43,743 gallons. The 

 imports of vegetables were principally 967,031 

 bushels of beans and dried peas, 546,798 bushels 

 of onions, and 155,861 bushels of potatoes; total 

 value of vegetables, $2,935,077. Ol vinegar, 122,- 

 479 gallons were imported. 



The imports of champagne were 310,149 dozen 

 bottles; of still wines, 315,920 dozen bottles and 

 2,533,828 gallons in casks; total value of wines, 

 $7,421,495. The wood imports included 28.228 

 thousand feet of mahogany, 101,397 thousand feet 

 of timber logs, 680,226 thousand feet of boards, 

 planks, deals, etc., and 541,040 thousand shingles. 

 Of the total value of wood and timber imports, 

 $5,956,568 were free and $14,635,340 paid duty. 



The wool imports consisted of 37,404,243 pounds 

 of clothing, 12,631,283 pounds of combing, and 

 105,892,929 pounds of carpet wool; total, 155.928.- 

 455 pounds, valued at $20,260,936. Of the first 

 class, Australasia, direct or by way of Great Brit- 

 ain, furnished nearly two thirds and the Argentine 

 Republic most of the remainder; of the second 

 class, three quarters came from Great Britain and 

 nearly a sixth from Canada; of the third class, 

 Great Britain and Continental Europe between 

 them supplied more than half, China nearly three 

 tenths, and the Argentine Republic and Asiatic 

 Turkey nearly all the rest. The imports of woolen 

 cloths amounted to 4,924,106 pounds; of wool car- 

 pets, 904,296 square yards; of women's and chil- 

 dren's dress goods, 25,343,998 square yards; of rags 

 and shoddy, 435,854 pounds; of woolen yarns, 185.- 

 262 pounds; total value of woolen manufactures 

 $16,164,446. 



The importation of zinc and spelter was 2,998,- 

 116 pounds. 



Of the total value of domestic merchandise ex- 

 ported in 1900, amounting to $1.370.763.571, manu- 

 factures, $433,851,756 in value, form 31.65 per 

 cent.: mining products, $37,843,742 in value. -2.~i> 

 per cent.; forest products, $52,218,112 in value. 

 3.81 per cent.; fishery products, $6,326.620 in value. 

 0.46 per cent. ; and agricultural products, . v 

 858,123 in value, 60.98 per cent. 



The values of articles of domestic produce ai 

 manufacture exported in the year ending June 3( 

 1900, are given in the following table: 



Agricultural implements: 



Mowers and reapers, and parts of ........ 



Plows and cultivators, and parts of ....... 



Allother .................................. 



Aluminum, and manufactures of. ............ 



Animals: 



Cattle .................................... 



II... . s ...................................... 



Horses .................................... 



Mules ..................................... 



Sheep ..................................... 



All oilier, including fowls ................. 



Art works ..................................... 



Bark, and extract of, for tanning ............. 



Beeswax ...................................... 



Billiard balls .................................. 



Blacking: 



Stove polish ............................... 



All other .................................. 



Bones, hoofs, horns, and horn tips ............ 



Books, maps, engravings, and printed matter 

 Brass, and manufactures of ................... 



Breadftfuffs: 



Barl.-y .................................... 



Bran, middlings, and mill feed ............ 



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