Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-05-03

only J. 200 pounds of Rio having then
found its way to this market. Sugar
Coal, Sardines, Railroad Iron, Nitrate
of Soda, and Linseed make up the
buk of South American importations.
Our importe trade with
SPAIN AND HER COLONIES
Has increased nothing in value since
1866, but gives promise of large
future increase. With Cuba it in
creased 50 per cent, from 1866 to 1867
but since has almost stood stih. The
immence increase in our local Cigar
manufacture explains this, We manufac
turing seven -eights of the cigars We
consumed, and greater proportion of
these from American grown Tobacco.
The success attending the culture and
epaIation of Havana Seed Leaf at
Gilroy, renders it probable that in a,
very few years that our Cuban trade
will have ceased altogether. 1t is
with the PHILIPPINE Islands that our
trade with Spanish possessions princi
ply il, our direct tr, de with old f9ain
being quite insignificant, and confined
nearly altogether 10 q few thousand
boxes of frui. per annum. From the
| PHILIPPINES last year We imported Sugar
to the amount OF % ,262, PAS pounds
more than double the quantity i'm
ported thence in 1871, and more than
three times that imported thence in
1870
In fact, China and tie PHILIPPINES
supplied last year :wo-thirds of the
sugar brought to Il is market. Our
imports Of Coffecs from Manila last
year in creased also to nearly double that
1871 Hemp. Rope aud Rice-the
latter 10 small quantities-make mp the
bulk of the balance of our importations
thence. With.
aERMASY AND BELGIUM.
We Fad. in 1866, an import trade
worth ss39,941, but since then i,
decreased continuously till 1871, when
it was only about forty per cent, of what
it was five years previous. Last year
however, it took an upward turn, when
it amounted to So62 2,61I-but for
Germany alone, for we had no imports
whatever from Belgium last year.
From Germany aud Belgium We have
received Glass, Fancy Goods, Drugs
and manufactures of Cotton, Wool
! Silk and Leather, Wines and Spirits
Earthen ware, Sheet Zinc, etc. In
most Of these articles We must for tn.
future be supplied by local mauufac,
ture or by Eastern inportations.
AUSTRALIA
Formerly the market for a large
proportion of our Flour and Wheat, As
year after year, taken smaller quaint,
ties Of these articles, and has had long
; since the balance of trade against us
Our importations from Australia were
} comparatively speaking, insignificant
till last year. The importation,
thence, in 1866, were valued q,
s146,906, in 1871, they had reached
s205, ,66l; but in 1872 they amounted
to 81 ,432 ,006, an increase in one year
ofseven hundred per cent. This is almost
unprecedented in the history of com
m3rce, and is by us entierly unbalanced
by any corresponding value of exports
thither 1t has consisted principally in
Wool, which has formed more than
so per cent, and which is imported fol
use mainly by the WOODEN mills of the
East, though gentleman connected
with those of the WOODEN mills of this
city was the pioneer ia the matter oi
its importation for tho mill with which
he was connected Coal is the next
most important of the Australian
imports Its amount in 1872 was three
times that of 1871, and though only set
down at the Gu, tom house as worth
$258, ,430. was when put on the market
worth over Sl,300.000 So that our
imports from Australia when put on
the market here were worth last year
not less than S2,250.0O0. One cause
of this great development has been the
maintenance of steamship line, With
the withdrawal of which we are now
threatened. This would be a real
calamity to our commerce, and we hope
that the blow thus threatened may be
warded oil by energetic action on the
part of our citizens Mercantile
! Director,