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MALT AND BEER IN SPANISH AMERICA. 



$18 to $20 per barrel. These selling prices are iu Mexican dollars ; one 

 dollar equals 73 T 9 ^ cents American. 



Imported beer is placed upon the market in Sonora through actual 

 purchase. 



Statement showing the quantities, value, etc., of malt and beer imported from the United 

 States into Nogales during the year 1889. 



* 1 kilo equals 2$ pounds. 

 No malt imported into Sonora, Mexico, in 1889. 



DELOS H. SMITH, 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, Consul. 



Nogales, February 3, 1890. 



TUXPAN. 



REPORT BY CONSUL LRAYTON. 

 MALT. 



I am unable to give any information respecting malt, as the article is 

 not used in this country, that is to say in my consular district. There 

 are no breweries at this place. 



BEER. 



Beer is imported from the United States only, and as we are in com- 

 munication with New York and New Orleans, these ports supply the 

 market. The duties on beer in bottles of any size, are 20 cents per 

 kilogram net weight, and for beer in kegs 10 cents per kilogram 

 net weight. The duties are charged on invoiced quantities, no reduc- 

 tion being made for leakage or breakage. No beer in kegs is imported, 

 as it will not keep in this climate, and there being no ice, such trials as 

 have been made to bring it in the above packages have proven failures 

 and abandoned. With very few exceptions the Anheuser-Busch Brew- 

 ing Company supply this market. The importation amounts yearly 

 to about 500 barrels of bottled beer in pints, or 5,000 dozen, as each 

 package contains 10 dozen pints. Wholesale price in this market is $20 

 per barrel, and retail per pint bottle, 25 cents, both being in American 



money. 



JOHN DRAYTON, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Tuxpan, February 7, 1890. 



