FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MERCHANDISE.

Total declared value of the Imports of Foreign Merchandise into, and of Exports of Domestic and Foreign Merchandise from, the United States, from and to each country, in the years ended June 30, 1890 and 1891.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF SPECIE.

Total declared value of the Imports of Specie into and Exports of Specie from the United States from and to each country in the years ended June 30, 1890 and 1891.

INTERNAL REVENUE FIGURES.

(From Report of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Nov. 2, 1891.) ' COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS DURING YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 1890 AND 1831.

INTERNAL REVENUE-Continued.

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Note. The decrease in the receipts from: snuff, chewing and smoking tobacco due to reduction of tax on January 1, 1891, from 8 to 6 cents a pound. Special taxes relating to tobacco were repealed May 1, 1891. The act of October 1, 1890, provides that all special taxes shall become due on July 1, 1891, and on July 1 in each year thereafter, or en commencing any trade or business on which such tax is imposed. The effect of this provision was to postpone the collection of the bulk of special taxes from May and June, 1891, to July and August, 1891, or from the last quarter of the fiscal year 1891 to the first quarter of the fiscal year 1892. Hence the apparent decrease in receipts from special taxes.

RECEIPTS FOR FISCAL YEARS ENDED JUNE 30. 1891, $146,035,415 97; 1890, $142,594,696 57; 1889, $130,894,434 20; 1888, $124, 326,475 32; 1887, $118,837,301 06; 1886, $116,902,869 44. AGGREGATE

COLLECTIONS BY STATES AND TERRITORIES
FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1891.

States and Territories.

Alabania

Arkansas

California (a)

Colorado (b).

Connecticut (c).

Florida
Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas (d).
Kentucky
Louisiana (e)
Maryland (f)
Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Montana (g)
Nebraska (h)

152,605 48 3,255,331 93

adhesive stamps..

DURING

| Aggregate collections.

$463,509 99 4,104,879 32 35,689 97

16,565,328 22

2,487.997 02 14,355,266 61

363,882 76 10,334,524 10. 72,599 75

1,276 123 09 239,147 41 3,208,066 34

842.676 87

3,619,677 22

$146,035,181 01

231 96

Aggregate receipts.. $146,035,415 97; a Including Nevada. b Including Wyoming. e Including Rhode Island.. d Including Indian Territory and Oklahoma. e Including Mississippi. f Including Delaware, District of Columbia, and two counties of Virginia. g Including Idaho and Utah. h Including North and South Dakota. i Including Maine and Vermont. k Including Arizona. I Including Washington and Alaska.

The cost of collection was 2.88 per cent during the year. Of 795 illicit stills seized, 698 were destroyed and 97 removed. 378 persons were arrested. One officer was killed and 3 wounded.

UNITED STATES COTTON STATISTICS.

The U. S. cotton crop for the year ending Sept. 1, 1891, amounted to 8,652,579 bales, the largest crop ever grown by 1,341,275 bales. The net cotton receipts at New-Orleans exceeded 2,000,000 bales for the first time since the war, and reached within 60,000 of those of the largest year, 1860. The total foreign export, excluding Canada, was 5,778,822 bales, of which Great Britain received 3,329,432, and France 559,099. The excess of foreign export over 1890 was 878,382 bales. In the U. S., Northern spinners consumed 2,632,023 bales; Southern spinners, 604,661. COTTON CONSUMPTION IN SOUTHERN STATES.

UNITED STATES DEBT STATEMENT, NOVEMBER 30, 1891. BONDS BEARING INTEREST.

DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Legal-tender notes...
Old den.and notes...
National bank notes-

Redemption account..
Fractional currency.

Total

$316,681,016 00

55,647 50

33,789,991 25 6,906,691 60 $387,433,346 35

CERTIFICATES AND NOTES ISSUED ON DEPOSITS OF COIN AND LEGAL. TENDER NOTES AND PURCHASES OF SILVER BULLION.

COAL PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES.-The coal product of the United States for the census year, 1889-'90 reached a total of 141.229,513 short tons, and was valued at the mines, before any expenses for shipment, at $160,226,323. The product included 45,600.487 short tons of Pennsylvania coal and other anthracite worth $65,879,514, and 95,629 026 short tons of bituminous and lignite, valued at $94,346,809. The average value of all salable grades of anthracite was $1 58 a ton at the mines. The average of bituminous coal was 99 cents a short ton at the mines. In 1880 the total product included 28.649.812 short tons of anthracite and 42,831,758short tons of bituminous coal. The product increased 97.57 per cent during the decade, and the total value 67.53 per cent. The total number of persons engaged in the industry was 299,559, who received in the aggregate $109,130.928 as wages,

*From Eleventh Census Bulletin.