160 STATISTICAL TABLE. 
sales have continued steadily to fall, to the 
latest period of the trade, although there has 
been no average increase in the number of 
adventurers, or amount of merchandise.* 
_ eral statistics of the Santa Fé Trade may prove not 
wily out interest to t the mercantile reader. With this view, I 
v lowing table of the probable amounts of mer- 
c iavesiad in rade, from 1822 to 1843 inclu- 
sive, same transfe’ to the Southern 
and about the enone of t 
markets (chiefly Chihuahua) during the same period; together 
with the approximate number of wagons, men and proprietors en- 
gaged each year: 
Years|Amt. Mdse.|W’gs.} Men. "haces |\T’n to Ch’a. Remarks. 
| Pack-animals only used. 
do. 
3,000} = do. and wagons 
5,000 é 
7,000] Wagons only henceforth. 
8,000 
20,000}3men killed, being the first. 
5,000/1st U.S. Es.—1 trader killed. 
20,000) First oxen used ¥ traders. 
80,000|Two men killed * 
50,000 { Panty defeated on — 
80,000) ¢ 2 men killed, 3 pe 
70, 00/24 U.S. Escort. 
70,0 
60, 
80, 
40,0 
100,000) Arkansas Expedition. 
10,000|Chihuahua Expedition. 
80,000)Texan Santa Fe Expedition. 
300 
300, 000\3d U.S. Es.—Ports closed. 
en 
each caravan was get srhilo of lato the capital baa been 
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