The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-11
BUSINESS AND COMMERCE DUR
 ING 1907.

ING 1907.
 The annual report of John R. Beegle, Esq, deputy collector of customs for the sub-port of Ketchikan to the col lector for the district of Alaska, for the calendar year ending December 3l, 1907, will among other things show the following facts and figures pertaining to the principal business industries of the district embracing all that part of Alaska lying west and north of the international boundary and Sumner Straits and Earnest Sound on the north, and generally known and referred to as the Ketchikan min ing district.
 During the year 497 vessels with a total tonnage of 274, S47 were entered at and Al representing tonnage of 236, BOT were cleared from this port total of 93S vessels, with an aggre- gate tonnage of 5ll, l54, as compared with a total of 9S2 vessels and 5lS, 592 tonnage entered and cleared ih 1906. These figures show slight decrease. The tonnage of American vessels en- gagged in the foreign trade, shows a falling of of 9, ,057 tons from so, 459 in 1906 to 50, 402 last year, 1906 having fallen about the same amount short oi 1905. This decrease is traceable prin- cipally to the entry of two large Nor wegian vessels into the trade with the British provinces.
 The report will show 77 documents issued to vessels, compared with ct for 1906; also vessels built and D re- built during the year.
 The value of merchandise imported from foreign ports totals sl6l, 0s2, against sl96, BIT for 1906 and s56, 62s for 1905. The rather large decrease is due to the Hadley shelter using coke shipped from Tacoma instead of Vancouver Island, as wa; formerly the case. The import: collected on this merchandise were s7, 32s. 2s. The collections for 1906 were sl6, 71s.27. This falling off in dutie; collected, is also traceable to lack o coke importations, as this commodity alone contributed s7,277.00 of the tota in 1906, against s2o5 for last year.
 The report of merchandise shipped from the Ketchikan district to botf American and foreign ports is yer. gratifying, from a local standpoint The total value of domestic product: shipped to foreign ports was ss46, 972.O0, ore shipments totalipg to, "A tons, valued at sS34, SIP and SIP, 360 al other shipments making the total. The shipments to domestic. port were sl, 963, 150, made up of the fol lowing items: Salmon, canned, 336, sos cases, valed at s1, 267, ,074; salmon salt, 7,1sl barrels, valued at sSl, 220 all other fish, fresh and salt s23, 1855 copper matte, 1,749 tons, tons, s3lS, 76l ore, 7,063 tons, sl0l, 051, and al other merchandise Sl7l, ,S59, givinE the total of sl, 963, 15, which, with th' foreign shipments, reach the grant total of g, Sl0, 122, as compared witt shipments, foreign and domestic fol 1906, of s2, 25O, 22S; thus it will be seer that the increase of output for th' year was s559, S94.
 The total shipments of merchandise to the Ketchikan district reached sl, IA 646, sl61, 093 of which was iron l foreign ports and the balance, sl, 2S3, 553, from domestic ports divided a follows: Coal, s43, ,0i7; lumber. s4, Sl0 hardware, s471. 49l provisions, s3lS, 539; liquors, s42, ,OO2; all other mer chandise, s403, 664, total s1. 2S3, 553 The total importations in 1906 were Sl, 376, 999, as compared with sl, Al, 6i' for 1907, showing an increase Of only s67, ,647 in merchandise imported a; against gain of s559, S94 in the value of shipments from the Ketchikan dis trict proper.
 The report shows 1907 to have beer the banner year in the canned salmon industry in this particular part ot Alaska, the pack being placed at 3S4, ell cases, valued at s1, 538, A. The fig ures for thefve previous years are giv- en as follows :..l9o2, 352. 6l3 cases valued at s1, O13, S5S; 1903, 3O3, 5O7 cases valued at s9SO. 259; 1904, 1S6, 85S cases valued at s78S, 526; 1905, 143, TIT cases valued at s57s, 33O; 1906, 2S2, s3s cases valued ats1, 230, 5S4.
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