. Hardware merchandising January-June 1898 . expenditure on canals up to 1896aggregated $80,925,522. SIX YEARS OF EXPORTS. The following table gives the exports of the mine, fisheries, for-est, animals and their products, agricultural products and manu-factures for each year from 1891 to 1896 inclusive, and the figuresare condensed from the Statistical Year Book : 1891. 1592. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. Mine 83,782,424 §5,903,628 $3,328,835 §5,799,337 §6,981,550 .$8,056,047 Fisheries 9,745,401 9,675,398 8, 11,102,692 10,692,247 11, Forest 5,434,912 5,288,087 5,592,893 6 831,184 5,517
. Hardware merchandising January-June 1898 . expenditure on canals up to 1896aggregated $80,925,522. SIX YEARS OF EXPORTS. The following table gives the exports of the mine, fisheries, for-est, animals and their products, agricultural products and manu-factures for each year from 1891 to 1896 inclusive, and the figuresare condensed from the Statistical Year Book : 1891. 1592. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. Mine 83,782,424 §5,903,628 $3,328,835 §5,799,337 §6,981,550 .$8,056,047 Fisheries 9,745,401 9,675,398 8, 11,102,692 10,692,247 11, Forest 5,434,912 5,288,087 5,592,893 6 831,184 5,517,342 6,067,741 Animals and their pro-ducts 25,967,741 28,594,850 31,736,499 31,881,973 31,387,770 36,507,641 Agricultural 13,666 858 2.\113,234 22,i 49,490 17,677,649 15,719,123 11,083,361 Manufactures* ... 25,145,071 24,035,488 28,462,031 27,215,691 26,144,376 30,476,932 Includes siwn lumber of all kinds, box shooks, shingles, ashes, treenails, staves,headings. It should be remembered that these figures represent values. If. WHAT WE HAVE WELL HOLD. they represented quantities the result would show larger increaseslor the later years, for, as everyone knows, prices have declined agreat deal during the six years covered by the table, and still a greatdeal more since the year of confederation. This fact should beborne in mind in considering all other figures besides those justquoted. THE MARINE INDUSTRY. 1 While her trade and commerce has been expanding, not forgotten to guard the interests of her marine. In 1868there were 198 light stations and 227 lighthouses in the country,but in 1896 the numbers were 629 and 770, respectively. Theexpenditure in the meantime increased from $371,071 to $854,690. The tonnage of sea-going vessels which entered and cleared atCanadian ports was 4,319,321 in 1868 and 11,458,824 in 1896. Ofthis latter sum, 2,141,272 tons were contributed by Canadian ves-sels against 1,634,333 in 1876. In 1876 the number of vessels tothus cle
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