86 COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Cotton textiles imported into the district of Puerto Plata during year 1888. 



SPANISH WEST INDIES. 



CIENFUEGOS. 



REPORT BY CONSUL EHNINGER. 



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I have spared no efforts in iny endeavors to obtain the information 

 asked for in circular of May 27, ultimo, with regard to the importation 

 of cotton textiles into this consular district, but, owing to various 

 causes, the result has been unsatisfactory. As a general rule, statistics 

 are not kept in this colony, and to obtain them in any public or private 

 office would involve a research which none are willing to undertake, nor 

 will they permit an outsider to prosecute such an undertaking (from 

 obvious reasons). The custom-house records, the same as those of im- 

 porting houses, are incomplete and unreliable. 



I have the honor to inclose herewith such few notes as I have been 

 able to procure from the two principal importing dry-goods houses of 



