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States and Principal Citic?. Business Houses. WeaUh. 



•Louisiana (New Orleans only) 802 SO, 794, 000 



Maine 4,982 99,298,000 



Maryland 3,665 102,359,000 



Massachusetts 17,302 868,81 5,000 



Micliigan 5,934 83,943,000 



•Missouri 3.263- 81,334,000 



Minnesota , 979 7,602.000 



New Hampshire •. . . 2,851 38,085,000 



New Jersey 5,910 90,250,000 



New York 36,932 1,677,204,000 



Ohio 17,005 310,725,000 



Pcnn.sylvania 22,941 , 733,296,000 



Rhode Island 2,487 115.704,000 



Vermont 2,494 19,989,000 



WiscoDsia 5,369 53,775,000 



Total , 168,925 $4,944,766,000 



Export of Petroleum in 1864. 



Tho following statement shows tlio export of petroleum to all parts of 

 the world : 



1864. 1863. 



From New York galls. 21,288,499 19,547,604 



The following is the quantity exported from other ports, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 : 



1864. 1863. 



From Boston galls. 1,696,307 2,049,431 



From Thiliulelphia 7,760,148 5,595,738 



From Bnltimore 929,971 915,866 



From Portland 70,762 342,082 



Total galls. 10,457,188 8,703,117 



Total export from United States 31,745,687 28,250,721 



Same time 1862 galls. 10,887,701 



Petroleum is now sent in considerable quantities to almost every foreign 

 port with which we have commercial relations. Great Britain is the largest 

 consumer of the product, the export from New York thither during last 

 year being 6,275,000 gallons. France is next in importance, her import 

 from this port having been 4,625,000 gallons, a large increase upon the 

 receipts of 1863. The shipments hence to Antwerp have also been large, 

 amounting to 4,149,000 gallons, against 2,692,000 gallons in 1863. Bre- 

 men has imported n'early one million gallons; Hamburg 1,186,000 gallons, 

 and Rotterdam 5S3,000 gallons. The shipments to Cronstadt indicate a 

 large growth in the demand in Russia, the export thither having increased 

 from 88,000 gallons in 1863 to 400,000 gallons in 1864. The export to 

 Genoa, Leghorn, Trieste, Lisbon and Australia are also of considerable 

 importance. 



As yet the trade in this article with South America and^the West India 

 islands has not grown to such an extent as might have been expected from 

 our intimate trading relations with those countries. It may be safely 

 asserted that the general demand for petroleum is yet in its infancy. Next 

 to gas, petroleum is the best and cheapest illuminating agent yet discov- 

 ered, and it appears to be destined to become the illuminator of the world. 

 In Asia, in many parts of Europe, and in South America, it requires time 

 for a new commodity, however desirable it may be, to create a demand. 

 But each year the consumption must become more generally diffused in all 



• These States, in consequence of the disorganized state of trade caused by the rebellion, are 

 not fully represented. 



