Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-15
SOME BIG FIGURES.


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During the year ending Dec 81, 1893, the
merchandise brought into the district OF
Vermont from the Dominion of Canada
amounted in the aggregate to Sl2242, VIZ,
on which duties to the amount of S", WV, S9S
were estimated or collected.
The value of and duties collected on mer-
| chandisc entered for consumption were: Free
goods. = BOD, 100; dutiablc, 81, sos 333; du
| ties, SSOS, 2l9. 50; entered for warehousing,
SSOSl; duties, S3173. -: withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption, 81 sos; duties,
1l4j. 81; entered for warehouse and trans
portation to other districts, $3.50, 920; duties,
S319, j1S.3i; entered for transportation and
expectation to foreign countries, SG,21j, SIS;
duties, S2313, G10.34
Among the principal articles entered for
| consumption were the following: Exempt
from duty, products of the United States
returned S52, j06: asbestos crude, 1868 S61;
wood ashes, $32 926; fur skins, S22 800;
hides and skins, 1921, $50 effects of imm-
grants, $3.50, $50; poplar and other woods
for paper stock, S101 ,339; maple sugar,
2l4, 1912 pounds. S15,62S: hemock bark,
81 6GG cords sos, 500; logs and wood I'M
manufactured, 1918, 0S6; railroad ties, 500
| BOG; subject to duty, horses valued at less
than $50 each, $685. value, 1852
1872; horses valued at over SlJO
each, 81 value $4,000; sheep, 40
SOS, value Sl30, Alp; barley, 70219 bush
els value S3l SOP; bran and mill feed S3c,
n; copper in ore, 1928, 02O pounds, 1913.
1873: eggs. 1866 029 dozen 1923. 100: fax. 1866
tons, S34 $50; hay, 1891 tons. 1928, 500;
lime Nl9, 4H; granite, rough, SSOl2; straw,
5OS3 tons, sl1, 1Jl; beans and peas, -, 253
bushels 500, 0j1; boards, -, 265, 600 feet,
500, 49, clapboards, 3, 295, 600 packs; Si1,
$50; shingles, 1871, 204. 900 packs, $2i6, sos:
wool, IA, 4t0 pounds $40, 146
The value of domestic merchandise ex-
ported to Canada by way of the district of
Vermont amounted to So J29, $50. Among
the principle articles exported We're Agri-
cultural implements, $4,000; books and
printed matter, SGS. S03; manufacture OF
brass, SIS, 209; carriages and parts Of SCI,
SOP; drugs and chemicals, Sll5,
629; cotton manufactures Sl,G31 1911;
sailed fish, S2i, LOO; fresh fish and
oysters, TG934l; glass and glassware, S26.
COL; India rubber manufactures, Slj5. 1872
hardware, $l2,.26O; machinery, $500, $50;
iron and steel manufactures, T2j4, 3S2;
jewelry, 500, 80: leather manufactures,
ISL, i6l; marble and stone rough, S34, 1926;
pianos and organs, S265.3JS; Illuminating
oil. so, PSI: plated ware, %3l. 059; refined
sugar, @G3, l27; leaf tobacco, $2i2, 2i9; fur
nture, 1921, 52S
STATISTICS OFTHE PORT OF. BURLINGTON.
The importations by water for the veal
1893 were Sawed lumber, 10, 90G, $50 feet
value, S191 239 pickets, 2.4,2, 10 packs
value. S14 .l6S: Hath, 3,212, 400 packs: value
$500 shingles, l,s5O, 600 packs; value -
| 81, match blocks $50 o DIS, value, 81 10
shade roller sticks, 23l1 20 packs; value.
S13S1. During the year -, tons OF
general merchandise were received by water
from domestic ports and j236 tons shipped
to other lake ports.
During the season of navigation 1853
vessels with tonnage of so, 40 tons en-
tered the port of Burlington from lax,
ports and III vessels with a tonnage OF
| 142l9 tons arrived from Canada, making
the total arrivals 1870 vessels aggregatinl
80, 96i tons burden. The clearances during
the same period were lNS0 vessels of j6S
.ii3 tons for lake ports, and 81 vessels o
! II ,O0S tons for Canadian ports