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as the present economic crisis the result of emancipation and drought 

 is passed, and the tide of prosperity sets in. Later I will look into the 

 number of cotton mills in this province, the business and results, and 

 transmit to the Department such information about them as I shall be 

 able to obtain. 



DAVID N. BURKE, 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, Consul. 



Bahia, August 23, 1889. 



PARA. 



REPORT BY CONSUL CLAYTON. 



Quantity and kind imported. There are no statistics to show the exact 

 quantity of cotton textiles imported into Para and Manaos. I estimate 

 the quantity at from 35,000 to 40,000 cases and bales. As to different 

 kinds of these goods Para imports printed cotton, white bleached cot- 

 ton, colored cotton drills, white cotton drills, gray unbleached cotton, 

 cotton cashmeres, cotton cassirneres. 



Weight. Weight varies from one-fifth to one-half pound per yard. 



How purchased. Bought from commission houses, or, in a few cases, 

 direct from manufacturers. Generally against draft up to ninety days 

 sight after arrival of steamer, or in account-current for six months date 

 of invoice and interest 5 to 6 per cent. Commission charged 2 to 5 

 per cent, if not included in prices. 



Place of manufacture. Manufactured in Manchester, Bradford, Dun- 

 dee, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Glasgow, Elberfeld, and Silesian 

 and Saxonian places. Imported from Manchester, Liverpool, London, 

 New York, and Hamburg. 



Duties. Duties for white cottons and colored cottons, 1 inilreis,* 

 brown unbleached, 680 reis per kilo, with augment of 15 per cent, of 

 this tax and 5 per cent, more for emancipation of slaves. 



B. W. CLAYTON, 



Consul 



UNITED STATES CONTJLATE, 



Para, October 1, 1889. 



PERNAMBUCO. 



REPORT BY CONSUL BORSTEL. 



I have the honor to inform the Department that I have obtained 

 from the Baron de Souza Leao, collector of customs here, a list show- 

 ing the total import of cotton goods into this province for the year 

 1888 ; the list giving weight in kilograms and value in milreis. I have 



* One milreis = 54.6 cents ; 1,000 reis == 1 niilreis. 



