. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. oats, towboats, and barges plying be-tween v. and other ports, for the year ending , was 342, with an aggregate tonnage of 84,-808. The number of arrivals of steamboats in1878 was 2,!I42, in comparison with 2,048 in 1877,and the departures were 2,042, compared with2,053 in the preceding year. The large steam-boats of the Mississippi Kiver are enabled to reachC. by means of the canal around the falls of theOhio at Louisville. Kentucky, which was openedin 1872. About three fourths of the commerce ofthe ci
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. oats, towboats, and barges plying be-tween v. and other ports, for the year ending , was 342, with an aggregate tonnage of 84,-808. The number of arrivals of steamboats in1878 was 2,!I42, in comparison with 2,048 in 1877,and the departures were 2,042, compared with2,053 in the preceding year. The large steam-boats of the Mississippi Kiver are enabled to reachC. by means of the canal around the falls of theOhio at Louisville. Kentucky, which was openedin 1872. About three fourths of the commerce ofthe city is by railroad and canal, and the remain-der by river transportation. The extent of theentire commerce is indicated by the value of im-ports, which for the year 1878 was $223,237,157,and of exports for the same year ^^180,200, is one of those interior ports to which, under theact of Congress passed in 1870, foreign merchan-dise may be transported without appraisement andpayment of duties at the port of first arrival. Thevalue of such imports to this city during the year. Stone and Earth , Can, etc. Paper, etc Book Binding andBlank Books. Printing and Pub-lishing Tobacco Fine .KtU. .Miscellaneous .. 1870. ,8(197,5974,6472,334 ,,301 1877. Hands Value ofenipld products. ,,aM 12,6!»,.227,3241 17,945,651 -,455,. : 16,90416,301,006 1,841 1,854,7743,544,1952,980,1021,794,413880,516 626,870 5,837,690 540,746 5,697,42 Total 59,827 |127,459,021 64,709 135,123,768 S13,288,7494,491, !7,«47,:i2,l«»2S,Tlu,0li3 8,293,930],01U23,617,711 ,8152,354,0642,140,402 4,957,426 4, 4,520,111 The leading commercial organization in C. isthe Chamber of Commerce and Merchants E.\-change, which has about 1,200 members, holdsdaily sessions, and publishes yearly reports of thehighest interest. The Board of Trade has aboutOOib members, chiefly manufacturers. There arealso a m
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