28 COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



MEXICO. 



GUAYMAS. 



REPORT BY CONSUL WILLARD. 

 IMPORTS. 



The greater portion of the importations for this consular district, 

 which formerly came entirely by sea, are now brought via Nogales on 

 the Mexican- American frontier by the Sonora Railroad, American 

 manufactured goods, as well as European manufactured goods sent in 

 transit through the United States via Galveston, New Orleans, and 

 New York. These goods are dispatched at Nogales paying duty, etc. 

 (our consul at Nogales no doubt will obtain the data of both Amer- 

 ican and European goods), for this reason I can only give approximate 

 figures as to quantities and values during the year 1888 for Guaymas. 



Two-thirds of the cotton goods consumed in this consular district 

 are of American manufacture, and they now occupy the place formerly 

 held by European goods (English and German). Up to 1874 the great 

 bulk of cotton textiles consumed on the west coast of Mexico was of 

 European manufacture. The northern states of Mexico now consume 

 but few European goods in comparison with former years, as the facil- 

 ities of importing American goods by rail has made this change, and 

 besides the quality of the goods as a rule are superior. This, no doubt, 

 will be confirmed by the reports of our consuls along the Mexican and 

 American border (Paso del Norte, Laredo and Matamoros). 



There are no American mercantile exporting houses established in this 

 consular district, the leading commercial houses being German, Spanish, 

 and Mexican. Neither French nor English houses exist that import 

 manufactured cotton goods. 



I can state in reply to the five points in which information is re- 

 quested as follows : 



QUANTITY AND KIND IMPORTED. 



I can only give that which came by sea to Guaymas for 1888, which 

 is more or less the same for the past two years preceding. The cotton 

 goods so imported of American manufacture brought from San Fran- 

 cisco to Guaymas by steamers (none by sailing vessels), according to 

 the values entered at this Guaymas custom-house, was $105,145 (the 

 number of yards I am unable to obtain), consisting of cotton drillings, 

 sheetings, calicoes, and lawns. 



Importations of same class of goods of European manufacture from 

 Germany and England, value $68,000. 



