Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
.HGN ROUND NUMBERS.
INTERESTING FIGURES FURNISHED BY
THE BUREAU OF sTATlsTlca
ImpOrtations Of Coffee and sugaE-snk
and Cotton GOOds-Finery for Ladies'
+ and LuKuries for Men
Wooden Goods I'M
ICor. Cincinnati Tmes.star.1

IOOEs CInCl1ubu I1ul9S~oLbE.l
The imports and exports of the fiscal
year ending June 80, are quite s~atisfac-
tory when compared with those Of the
previous year. The exports Of the year
have been over 81, 900, 900 in excess of
last year, while the amount of money
sent abroad to pay for imports has fallen
off over $50, 000, 900, making o balance of
nearly 800, 600, 900 in our favor as com
pared with the work of the fiscal year
1884. The exports, which in 1884 were
A$678, 600, 900, amount this year to $685.
200, 600 in round numbers. The imports,
3 which in 1884 were $500. 900, 600, in round
numbers, amount in the past year to only
1888, 900, 900. Thus the exports, which
last year were only $57, 900, 600 more than
the imports, are this year 1921, 100000
greater than the imports.
1t IS interesting To run over the list of
imports n exports as furnished by the
bureau of statistics and see what we buy
and what we sell. For instance, the i'm.
portations Of coffee in the year just past
amount to 522, 600, 900 pounds, or an aver
age OF ten pounds per head all around. In
the preceding year the importations of
coffee were but 400, 900, 900 pounds Our
coffee, however, has not cost US as much
per pound this year as last, for although
we imported 20, 600, 900 pounds more we
paid Sd, 600, 900 less for it, our coffee bill
in the year just passed being $43, 900, 900
in round numbers or less than 81 each
for the total population.
The importations of sugar In the year
just past amount to 2, 400, 900, 900 pounds,
or a little over forty pounds per Head for
ouorv Tnon wnONon onA aht1I -, ALa a1,u
try. The importations of sugar have
been in pounds about the same as last
year; possibly a little less. The cost,
however, has been very much less. In the
fiscal year 1884 the value of the sugar i'm
4ported was over 800, 600, 000, while this
year it has only amounted to about $685.
100000. Sugar is cheap the world v e
this year. The German and French gov
ernments have given large sums for the
benefit OF sugar production in their re.
spective countries, and the people Of the
United States have, unconsciously in
most cases, been consuming large quaint.
ties of beet sugar imported from France
and Germany, while the low prices i n
Europe have compelled the sugar.pro.
ducers of Cuba to accept low prices for
their sweets. Sugar and coffee form by
far the largest and most important arti-
cles Of import
The next importantin cost among the i'm.
ports is silk. The importations in silk In
the year just ended amount in round
numbers to nearly $35, 600, 900, which, by
the way, is 81, 600, 900 or So, 900, 900 less
than the silk imported in the preceding
year. Next in value to the importationa
of silk come those of fax, hemp, iute,
and similar materials, which amount to
1895, 900, 900 o year in round numbers
Cotton goods come next, amounting to
over $50, 000, 900. Curious. isn't it, that
this country, the great ~cotton.field of the
world, with its wonderful facilities fol
manufacturing, should send over 800
100000 abroad for manufactures Of
4AGotton?
Those ostrich farms in California must
have been extremely busy in the past
wear; at least the importations of ostrich
feathers, which in the fiscal year 1884
ended less than 81, 1000, 600. The dear Ia
dies have been busy, however, if not witt
feathers with something else, for the i'm
portations of their hats and bonnets II
the past year amount to a, sou, 900
against about So, 500, 600 in the preceding
year. There is not much opportunity foI
the horrid men, however, to make re
marks on this subject, for theil
imported tobacco cost them double wha
the ladies' hats cost. or in round
numbers so, 900, 900. The wearers Of dia
monds seem to have taken a suddel
spasm of economy, for in the year jus
ended their im~portations of diamond
have been only s.. 900, 900, against ~, 900,
600 in the preceding year.
The cost of ladies' hats given sbov,
does not make up the total, however, o
expenditures in this line, for their dres
goods in wool and alpaca alone amount t.
$18,0 900, 900, while the cloths, mostly TO
gentlemen to wear, amount to owe
49, 0O, 900. Indeed, the total importa
tons of woods and wooden goods exceet
in value those Of silk or cotton, the tota
of all grades of wool and WOODEN good
icing nearly $40, 600, 900
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