U. S. Consul McDougaWs Report on Oils and Jute at Dundee. 629 



to Dundee in the manufacture of the coarse stuffs on the making of which this 

 town has always relied. An immense quantity of this quality of cloth is produced 

 in this locality, three-fil'ths of tlie mills and factories having machinery only 

 adapted for spinning the yarns for and weaving this cloth." 



The Calcutta manufacturers are in the mean time underselling Dundee in the 

 Australian, Egyptian, and Californian markets. Of the last-named place, by far 

 the most important of the three, Dundee once had the monopoly of the business. 

 The total value of the jute-bags exported there, declared to at this consulate, was, 

 for the four quarters of the years ending 30th September, 1875, 1876, and 1877, as 

 follows : 



" This demonstrates that at the moment Dundee has entirely lost control of 

 this splendid outlet for its goods. Of course some allowance for this almost incred- 

 ible decrease may be attributed to the encouragement the San Francisco sack- 

 sewers have in the difference of 10 per cent, in the tariff in favor of burlaps, which 

 they make into bags on the spot. But even in this way Dundee is not compen- 

 sated for the serious loss (as shown by this statement) it has sustained, as the bag- 

 makers get large parcels of the cloth they use from Calcutta, which soui-ce, it is 

 beyond question, must now be supplying California, Oregon, and the Western 

 States with millions of bags and thousands of pieces of cloth yearly which for- 

 merly came from this quarter." 



To give an idea of the connection Dundee has with the United States in the 

 jute trade, I submit an " extract of my detailed statement of exports from this 

 Consular district to the United States for the four quarters of the year ending 



