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MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS IN MEXICO IN 1893.
I take from Les Finances des Etats- Unts Mexicains of Mr. Prosper
doner the following table, which purports to give the number of some
of the manufacturing establishments in Mexico during the year 1893.
Mr. doner acknowledges that his table is very deficient, as he says in
a note that appears at the foot of it that he failed to receive the data
from 117 districts in different states of Mexico, and that besides the
* manufacturing establishments mentioned in his table there are in the
City of Mexico the following : (See page 236.)
Carriages and wagons 11
Wax works 28
Agricultural implements 9
Wall paper i
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Carriage varnishes 2
Jewelry boxes, etc 9
Mucilage and paste 11
Card-board 6
Scientific instruments i
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Pianos, organs, and harmonicas 4
Passementeries 6
Type foundries i
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Perfumeries 6
Hats 49
Musical instruments 6
Total 159
NAVIGATION.
The total number of vessels, both steamers and sailing vessels,
which arrived at and departed from Mexican ports during the year
1895, appears in the following statement.
I also append a statement showing the number of passengers who
arrived in and departed from Mexico by sea and rail during the year
1895, mentioning both their nationality and the port of their arrival.
The number appears exceedingly small when compared with the very
large number coming from Europe to the United States ; but I feel sure
that before long we will have a large immigration.
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VESSELS ARRIVED AT AND DEPARTED FROM MEXICAN PORTS DURING
THE FISCAL YEARS 1 894-95 TO 1895-96.
ARRIVED.
DEPARTKD.
Steamers.
Sailing vessels.
Steamers.
Sailing vessels.
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sels.
Ton-
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Ton-
nage.
Ves-
sels.
Ton-
nage.
Total navigation in
the fiscal
4,078
4,471
3,083,050
3,300,444
5,497
5,723
345,923
395,041
3,399
4,378
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3,242,711
5.566
5,856
332,720
Total navigation in
the fiscal
390,765
393
217.394
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49,118
215,747
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
I take from the Amiario Estadistico de la Republica Mexicana of 1895
the following table, which gives the total production of some of our
agricultural staples, although I feel perfectly satisfied that they are
very much under-rated in said table, because of the difficulty in obtain-
ing complete data about our agricultural productions, both for want of
a proper machinery to collect it, and because manufacturers conceal
the extent of these products for the purpose of avoiding taxation. I
think if the figures in said table are duplicated they will be nearer
the true production.
RESUME OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN MEXICO.
POUNDS AND
OTHER MEASURES.
Cereals :
Rice
Barley
Indian corn
Wheat
Leguminous :
Chickling vetch (Arvejon). ,
Beans
Chick-peas
Lima beans ,
Lentils
Root plants :
Sweet potatoes
Huacamote
Potatoes
Solanaceous :
Dried pepper
Green pepper
Cane products :
Sugar cane
Sugar
Brown sugar
Molasses
27,174,320 59
4.752,239
71,900,598
10,034,328
251,230
4.319-834
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561,159
34,123
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29,472,894 45
9,724.443 98
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5,924,612,232 56
316,531,239 02
152,300,903 95
12,748,079 24
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3,587,682 65
75,695,383 21
13,273,790 50
336,771 40
7,269,123 25
932,608 60
624,530 22
64.441 25
859,461 50
108,348 82
879,430 15
1,731.857 67
758,199 90
25,692,281 25
10,283,994 38
7,942,787 60
3.304,787 82
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ARTICLES.
Oleaginous :
Sesame seed
Peanuts
Coquito de Aceite.
Cocoanuts
Linseed
Palma Christi
Turnip seed
Lime-leaf sago
Alcohol and Fermented Drinks:
Rum
Pulque whiskey
Mezcal
Pulque
Tlachique or unfermented
pulque
Textiles :
Henequen
Ixtle
Cotton
Grape Products :
Grape
Wine
Brandy
Dyeing Plants :
Indigo
Brazil
Campeachy
Moral
Tanning Plants :
Cascalote
Tanning bark
Tropical Plants :
Cocoa
Coffee
Tobacco
Pepper
Vanilla
Gums :
Chewing gum. .
India rubber. . .
Mesquite gum. .
Copal gum
Medicinal Plants :
Jalap
Sarsaparilla. . . .
BUSHELS.
214,469
357,569
69,388
303.425
59,4to
20,708
9,968
POUNDS AND
OTHER MEASURES.
(3 10. 953. 000 cocoa-
nuts)
12,768,716 gals.
270,876 gals.
6,01 1,602 gals.
54,624,835 gals.
24,013,901 gals.
93.427,740 04
9,608,026 79
78,511,486 26
3,114,519 05
162,816 16 gals.
91,656 69 gals.
299,761 56
632,135 85
171,604,086 41
19,826,253 38
4,798,994 96
33,036,812 04
5,346,718 17
42,019,015 76
124,852,597 69
119,273 60
(10,714,000 vanilla
beans)
3,996,630 32
1,354,851 48
139,896 97
21,485 47
50,099 00
1,514,331 90
1:5 144,773 00
325,413 00
130,955 00
3,522,789 00
373,115 00
83,434 00
34,806 00
20,168 00
5,056,474 82
199,935 00
3,078,372 00
3,562,435 05
1,294.575 00
4,104,096 00
325,250 95
10,176,050 50
161,372 25
146,028 70
83,724 80
285,530 00
64,795 00
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195,300 00
242,070 25
457,167 26
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11,565,519 28
6,464,733 50
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549,865 50
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7,292 75
10,313 55
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CONCLUSION.
It has taken me a great deal of time and required a great deal of
effort to obtain and prepare the data contained in this paper. I am
sorry I have not been able to make it more complete than it is ; but I
hope my article, by giving a general and superficial idea of Mexico,
may promote the desire to read other papers and books treating on
that subject in a fuller and more complete manner.
ADDENDA.
Since this paper has been printed the Federal Treasury of Mexico
finished the accounts of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, and I give
below the general results, showing the total amount of the Federal
revenues and expenses during that year, I also give a statement, taken
from the Statistical Bureau of the Treasury Department of Mexico,
published since this paper has gone to press, of the imports and ex-
ports in the same year, both by countries and custom houses, these two
statements completing the data contained in this paper, and finally
some data of the trade of both countries during the first nine months
of the present calendar year.
FEDERAL REVENUE AND EXPENSES OF MEXICO IN THE FISCAL YEAR
1896-1897.
RECKIPTS.
Duties on imports and exports $23,639,580.91
Internal revenue 24,323,798.46
Public services 2,057,409.92
Extraordinary and incidental 2,084,496.30
$52,105,285.59
Extraordinary revenues proceeding from contracts
and other sources 2,819.17
$52,108,104.76
EXPENSES.
1. Legislative power $ 989,758.38
2. Executive power 62,100.26
3. Judicial power 428,687.46
4. Department of Foreign Affairs 470,122.37
5 . Department of Interior 3.354.888.95
6. Department of Justice and Public Education. 2,184,556.52
7. Department of Fomento, Colonization, and
Industr)' 61 1,863.83
8. Department of Communications and Public
Works 5.494,593-34
9. Department of the Treasury and Public
Credit 24,218,207.75
IV. Department of War and the Navy 10,550,955. 18
Total I48 . 365.734-04
Surplus $3,742,370.72
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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF MEXICO 15Y COUNTRIES AND CUSTOM
HOUSES IN THE FISCAL YEAR 1 896-97.
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COUNTRIES.
Algiers
Arabia
Argentine
Republic. .
Australia. . . .
Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chili
China
Colombia. . . .
Costa Rica. .
Cuba
Denmark .. . .
Ecuador . . . .
Egypt
England . . . .
France
Germany. . . .
Greece
(juatemala . .
Hawaii
Holland
Honduras... .
India
Italy,
Japan
Nicaragua. . .
Norway
Persia
Peru
Portugal ....
Russia
Salvador ....
San Domingo
Senegambia .
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland..
Turkey
United States
Uruguay ....
Venezuela . . .
Zanzibar ....
Total
S02
282
I,
24,
128,
479.
833
367
850
214
240
356
203
357
317
3
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363
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1 249
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,701
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,660
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132
210
184
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1,983
29
163
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670
784
108
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452
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902
794
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33
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12,204,095
1-134,325
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20
5,396
17,675
31,658
53,503
14,280,527
1,873,522
4,416,744
1.197,247
1,200
57,906
10,765
1,660
2,110
19,690
294,165
12,185
1,192,328
180
720
86,742,951
$111,346,494
CUSTOM
HOUSES.
Acapulco ...
Altata ,
Camargo
Campeclie. . . ,
City of Juarez
City of Porfirio
Diaz
Coatzacoalcos
Frontera
Guaymas. . . .
Guerrero ....
Isle of Carmen
La M orita . . .
La Paz
Laredo
Las Palomas.
Manzaniilo , .
Matamoros . .
Mazatlan .. . .
M ier
Nogales
Progreso ....
Puerto Angel
Salina Cruz..
San Bias. . . .
Sta. Rosalia.
Soconusco. . .
Tampico ....
Tijuana
Todos Santos
Tonala
Tuxpam ....
Veracruz ....
Zapaluta ....
Total.
) 206,275
101,159
6,897
175,027
2,910.359
4,710.415
105,148
246,918
451,959
6,863
89,894
24.943
62,937
4,693,818
18,794
77.395
185,370
1,572,^68
8,i57
944,312
1,463,515
15,150
11,676
152,643
547,726
231,078
8.773,275
14,297
140,268
106,494
76,926
14,036,136
35.703
EXPORTS.
123,481
813,899
8,735
747,710
17.929.521
2,888,535
285,195
418,352
40,307
15,754
1.693,767
498,765
430,144
3,701,086
420,011
221.551
312,987
5,808,037
78,609
5,776,575
8,443,130
525,075
68,114
638,398
3,279,390
1,608,446
29,952,441
116,238
199,367
255,582
1,154,313
22,484,633
408,346
$42,204,095 $111,346,494
A comparison between the foreign trade in the fiscal year 1896-97
with the year before, 1895-96, gives the following results : During
the year 1896-97 Mexico's exports increased $6,329,592, but the value
of the exports sent to the United States increased $7,091,256. The
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total of Mexico's imports for the year 1896-97 shows a falling-off of
$49,843, but, notwithstanding this fact, Mexico's imports from the
United States increased $2,448,097. During the year England's ex-
ports to Mexico decreased $1,023,315, and her imports from Mexico
show a loss of $2,186,622, a combined loss of over 12 per cent, in her
commercial relations with the Republic. Imports to Mexico from
France fell off $i,no,ioi, a loss of one-sixth of all France's exports
to Mexico. In 1895-96 the United States imported 75.8 per cent,
of the total exports from Mexico ; in 1896-97 American exporters fur-
nished 53^ per cent, of all that Mexico bought abroad, and, more
than this, the United States took 47.67 per cent, of all that was ex-
ported from Mexico. These figures sustain the prediction made, that
any unsettlement or diminution of Mexico's importations either be-
cause of fluctuating silver or the increased production of home manu-
factories would affect American exporters less than those of any other
country. The statistics given above show that these causes have affected
them less than those of all the other countries combined ; in fact, their
loss has been the gain of the United States.
TRADE BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE
FIRST NINE MONTHS OF THE CALENDAR YEAR 1 897.
The following data, taken from the publications of the Statistical
Bureau of the United States Treasury Department, shows the results
of the trade with Mexico in the nine months ended September 30,
1897, as compared with the similar period ended Sei)tember 30, 1896.
Mexican Exports to the United States. — In the following items the
first group of figures represents the amounts and values exported in
the first nine months of this year, and the second those of the similar
period in 1896 :
Coffee, 30,016,967 pounds, worth $4,574,252 gold, against 19,715,264
pounds, worth $3,333,385. The much lower price of coffee this year
accounts for the disproportionate valuation.
The people of the United States, besides being Mexico's chief cus-
tomers for coffee, are buying more and more of our tobacco, which
they now know and appreciate on its merits. The amount exported to
the United States was 600,987 pounds, worth in gold $294,536, against
191,303, worth $78,769.
Mexico exported, in the period under consideration, to the United
States, hides and skins to the value of $1,534,306 gold, against $1,055,-
299. The quantities, respectively, were 11,764,000 pounds, and 7,102,-
465 pounds. No diminution of activity there.
It is worth noting that oranges were shipped out to the value of
$22,444 gold against $19,359.
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Mexico's great argentiferous lead business did not fall behind, the
nine months' exportation being 108,776,560 pounds, worth in gold
$1,226,525, against 97,818,833 pounds, worth $949,926. The bulk of
the American purchase of lead is from Mexico.
Yucatan is Mexico's henequen-growing region, and the exportation
has been heavy, standing at 48,410 tons, worth in gold $2,889,003,
against 35,746 tons, worth $2,323,585, a noteworthy increase. The
henequen or sisal-grass trade into the United States is overwhelmingly
Mexican, " other countries " furnishing but 399 tons in the first nine
months of this year !
Mexico both exports and imports coal, and shipped into the United
States 85,890 tons, worth in gold $182,416, against 52,674 tons, worth
$115,015.
Logwood exports were $44,028, against $15,250.
Mahogany fell off, being $290,044 gold, against $306,715, but this
trade is always variable.
Mexicari Imports from the United States. — It is worthy of note that,
in spite of the extraordinarily heavy gold premium, Mexico should be
increasing her buying abroad of electrical apparatus, the purchase from
the United States alone, in the firfet nine months of this year, amount-
ing to $228,000 gold, as against $200,000 in the same period last year.
Sewing machines went in to the value of $164,000 gold in the nine-
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