IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. 
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Value of roofing and other slate imported and entered for consumption, etc. ( lontinued. 
Year. 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
1891 
1892 
1893 
Roofing 
slate. 
Other. 
Total. 
$2, 813 
$44, 375 
$47, 188 
16, 099 
34, 640 
50, 739 
5, 196 
56, 913 
62, 109 
4,366 
60,512 
64, 878 
529 
46,188 
46, 717 
765 
44, 069 
44, 834 
481 
35, 828 
36, 309 
369 
34, 602 
34, 971 
1,148 
12, 373 
13, 521 
1,615 
4, 952 
6, 567 
1,878 
6,671 
8,549 
Year. 
1S94 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
Roofing 
shite. 
n, 198 
I, lis 
224 
72 
58 


3 

2/221 
45 
Other. 
$6, 342 
1, 212 
6,191 
4,997 
4,866 
4,025 
ti. 998 
6,467 
4, SIT 
7,182 
9,391 
Total. 
$8,540 
5, 630 
6,415 
5,069 
4,924 
1,025 
6,998 
6, ITii 
4,817 
9,403 
9, 136 
EXPORTS. 
Almost from the beginning of the slate-quarrying industry in the United States 
slate has contributed to the export movement of this country. In 1876, 1877, L878, 
and again in 1880 a large quantity of slate was exported, the greatest part going to 
Great Britain and the Continent, a remarkable feature being that several cargoes 
were shipped directly to Welsh ports, the base of the slate supply for Great Britain. 
From that time until 1896 Great Britain did not take much of the product, which 
found an outlet in South America, the West Indies, and Australia. In fact, British 
Australasia has always been one of the largest foreign consumers of American slate. 
Until 1884 no general record of theexport movement was obtainable, but as probably 
90 per cent was shipped from the port of New York, the following table is given, 
showing the shipment of slate from that port from 1876 to 1888. The export of 
manufactured slate is also shown in this table, and is almost entirely the value of 
school slates. 
Value of exports of roofing and other slate from the port of New York from 1876 to 1888, 
inclusive. 
Year. 
Roofing 
slate. 
Other. 
Total. 
Year. 
Roofing 
slate. 
Other. 
Total. 
1876 
$377, 233 
646, 272 
308,852 
166, 220 
220,292 
138, 904 
153, 318 
$87, 500 
68, 437 
88,215 
74, 251 
76, 709 
62, 109 
68, 150 
$464, 733 
711,709 
397, 067 
240, 471 
297, 001 
201, 013 
221 , 468 
1883 
$54,063 
90, 262 
115,206 
79, 064 
62, 052 
116,119 
$40,674 
.3,02] 
49, 965 
40,804 
39,560 
46, 1 12 
$94,737 
1877 
1884 
1 13,283 
1878 
1885 
165, 171 
1879 
1886 
119,868 
1880 
1887 . 
101,612 
1881 
1888 
L62, 261 
1882 
Since 1884 theBureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor, hasshown 
by ports and custom districts the value of the roofing slate export ed by fiscal years 
ending June 30, and these figures are given in the following table. No separate 
record has been kept of the manufactured product. 
