The silk goods of America: a brief account of the recent improvements and advances of silk manufacture in the United States . goods, and the importers profits, should be added to the invoices,in any calculation of the value of these imports in the United Statesmarkets. Of all the silk goods brought into this country, 94 to 95per cent, come to the port of New York. The tables of imports of both raw silk and manufactures give themby fiscal as well as by calendar years. A table is furnished estimating the value of silk goods manufac-tured in the United States in 1879. These figures cannot be dire
The silk goods of America: a brief account of the recent improvements and advances of silk manufacture in the United States . goods, and the importers profits, should be added to the invoices,in any calculation of the value of these imports in the United Statesmarkets. Of all the silk goods brought into this country, 94 to 95per cent, come to the port of New York. The tables of imports of both raw silk and manufactures give themby fiscal as well as by calendar years. A table is furnished estimating the value of silk goods manufac-tured in the United States in 1879. These figures cannot be directly 82 THE SILK ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. compared with those of imported goods for reasons already may be assumed, however, that our manufactories contributed morethan a third in value of the silk goods used in the country. The table of United States imports entered for home consumptionshows distinctly the sources of the public revenue from Customs will be noticed that silk goods stand third in the list of articlescontributing to that revenue, and that the greater part of it is drawnfrom few THE SILK ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. Fluctuations of Raw Silk : 83 Upper line, waved,Middle line,Lower line, dotted, Loxdox Prices : bv H. Zweifel & Co. Best Italian Tsatlce III. —^ 0 VO CO VO CO M VO 00 COVO CO VO CO 10 VO CO vo —r~» vo co coA -/-CD- vo_ CO At 0 CO CO CO CO 1 V 37 « J \) \ 37 » 36 K / \ 36 >. / \ 1 \ \ 35 6 Z7 \ / 1 \ \ \ 35 » / \ / \ \ V 34 6 / \ / 1 \ \ \ 34 » 1 I \ / . t \ \ \ \ 33 6 / I / jt 1 \ \ \ it 33 ,, / I / / \ \ 32 6 / \ / \ \ 1 32 » \ / I ; \ \ \ 31 6 \ J !\ / : \ \ • 31 „ :\ 1 \ \ / 30 6 / 1 ; \ A / ^az_ 30 » / \ ; \ / ^s \ / \ 1 / 29 6 1 i _, V ^-^ / \ \J 29 „ 1 -^ \ 2s 6 1 \ \\ 28 » ^ V I t , 1 \ 27 6 ^ \ / / l 1 \ 27 „ \ / ; _L 26 6 / 1 \ 26
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