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cotton goods in this capital, I would state that during the year 1888 

 there passed from France to Spain by the land route of Cerbere Port 

 Bon the amount of 1,110,434 kilograms of goods of all classes, that is 

 to say of silk, cotton, wool, linen, and other fabrics the relative propor- 

 tion of which it would be impossible to determine, because the railroad 

 statistics do not classify them, mentioning only in a nominal way some 

 62,000 kilograms of cottonades, which remain included in the above 

 specified quantity. Moreover all these goods do not come to Barcelona, 

 because they are divided amongst the different towns on the road from 

 the frontier to Barcelona and still beyond. 



Notwithstanding, it must be admitted that cotton goods are those 

 that are introduced in much less quantity, when it is considered that the 

 region of Catalonia is a cotton manufacturing region, as it works up 

 annually from 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 kilograms of raw cotton. 



Barcelona exports annually to Cuba, Manila, Porto Rico, Guada- 

 loupe, Trinidad, and the South American republics, about 1,300,000 

 to 1,500,000 kilograms of cotton goods, and supplies all the principal 

 central deposits throughout Spain, where there are numerous ware- 

 houses and deposits. What with thread, cotton twist, and cotton goods 

 of all kinds, there are in all the manufacturing region about 400 factories, 

 amongst which there are about 70 of the finest that employ from 200 to 

 800 men each, and a few from 1,000 to 2,000 men each. Including the 

 auxiliary branches, that is, bleaching, dyeing, printing, and the minor 

 industries, such as stockings, galloons, fringes, bands, ribbons, cords, 

 and many other articles in the manufacture of which cotton is em- 

 ployed, there existed in 1885 about 3,000 establishments with about 

 160,000 workmen (men, women, and children), who all lived by this in- 

 dustry. 



FREDERICK H. SCHEUCH, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Barcelona, November 1, 1889. 



