Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-12-15

quarters of million dollars worth of
foreign merchandise.
The growth in traffic by the re-
spective routes has been, according to
figures compiled by the Bureau OF
Statistics, Department of Commerce
and Labor: via the Panama railway,
from ten million dollars in 1907 to
twenty-six million in 1911; and via
the Tehuantepec railway, from eleven
and half million in 1907 to seventy
three and three quarters millions In
1911. In 1907 the traffic was almost
equally divided between the two
routes, while last year about three
fourths of the total was moved across
the isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Of the merchandise passing from
the Atlantic coast ports westward
across the isthmuses, aggregating
sixty-two and u half million dollars
in value, four million dollars worth
went to Hawaii via Tehuantepec; for
ty-eight and half million went to
Pacific coast cities, forty-one million
dollars worth being shipped by way
OF Tehuantepec and eight and half
million dollars worth by way of PAN
ANA; and a little over eight and one
| half million dollars worth went to for
eign countries, of which all but one
million dollars worth was by way of
Panama. These west-bound ship
ments left the Atlantic seaboard at
New York and Philadelphia, the lat
ter's share being less than one million
dollars value and that of New York,
siXty-one and half million. The
westward movement included a total
of thirty-two and a half million dol
lars value to San Francisco, ten and
a half million to San Diego. four and
and half million to Seattle, nearly
one million to Los Angeles. about u
half million dollars each to Tacoma
and Portland. and smaller amounts to
Oakland and other Pacific coast
points. About eighty per cent of this
traffic was moved via the Isthmus Of
Tehuantepec. To foreign countries
the shipment from the Atlantic coast
cities, aggregating eight and half
million dollars in 1911 as against Ave
and three-quarter million year earl
Ter. were distributed to Peru. two mil
lion dollars; to Colombia, one and "a
half Million Ecuador and Chile. each
about one million; to Central America
over two million, and to Canada. about
$500, 900.
| Hawaiian sugar supplies more thar
half of the east-bound traffic to cities
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the
movement last year represented thir-
ty-seven million dollars, of which
eighteen million was sugar shipped
direct from Hawaii via Tehuantepec
to Delaware Breakwater. In addition
to this, sixteen million dollars worth
of miscellaneous merchandise moved
from San Francisco to the Atlantic
and Gulf coast cities, chiefly New
York, Boston. Philadelphia, and New
Orleans, nine and half million dol
lars worth being via Panama and six
and II half million via Tehuantepec,
Eastward shipments from Puget
Sound via the isthmuses totaled one
and half million dollars, destined
mostly for New York and Charles
ton. Small shipments were also made
from Astoria and San Diego.
The following table shows the
value, in millions of dollars, of mer'
chandise shipped from ports OF thu
United States to other domestic ports
or to foreign countries by way of thu
Isthmuses of Panama and Tehuante
pee, in each year from 1905 to 1871
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