COTTON TKXTM.F.s IX FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 153 



TURKEY IN ASIA. 



PALESTINE. 

 REPORT BY CONSUL OILLMAN, OF JERUSALEM. 



The director of the custom-house at Jaffa refuses to give to any 

 foreign consulate any such information as that required in this instance 

 unless he should be authorized to do so by special order from head- 

 quarters. I have therefore been obliged to direct my inquiries to such 

 private sources of information as were available to enable me to give 

 the following answers to your questions : 



IMPORTS. 



Cotton textiles are imported into this district to the amount of $120,- 

 000 per annum. They are of the following-named kinds : T-cloth, 

 gray ; long cloth ; bleached shirtings ; prints. 



WEIGHT. 



The weight varies from 5 to 8 pounds per piece of from 24 to 30 yards, 

 which would make the weight per yard range from twenty to twenty- 

 seven hundredths of a pound. 



HOW PURCHASED. 



It is invariably the case that all such goods are purchased by piece 

 or by yard, not by weight. The price paid to the wholesale dealers in 

 England varies from 3J to 6J cents per yard, or about from 80 cents to 

 82 per piece, a credit of from two to three months being generally al- 

 lowed. 



PLACE OF MANUFACTURE. 



The place of manufacture and whence imported is England, and no 

 other country, and the importation is not direct, but via Beirut. 



DUTIES. 



The duties charged thereon are 8 per cent, ad valorem. 

 There are a number of small articles which would come properly under 

 the head of cotton textiles, but which I have omitted from this report 

 from the impossibility of obtaining statistic^ upon the subject. Also, 

 the business done in them is of so trifling an amount as to render them 

 of hardly sufficient importance in this connection. 



HENRY GILLMAN, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Jerusalem, July 18, 1889. 



