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Exports coastwise from the district of Sandusky, Ohio, during the year ending 31st December, 1851-destined mostly for the eastern market.

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Port of entry, Toledo; latitude 41° 38', longitude 83° 35'; population in 1840, 1,222; in 1850, 3,829.

This district has a shore-line of fifty miles in extent, comprising that portion of the lake and river coast lying between Port Clinton and the dividing line between Michigan and Ohio, and includes the ports of Manhattan, Toledo, Maumee, and Perrysburgh. The former is a port of but little importance, furnishing no returns. Maumee city and Perrysburgh are both situated on the Maumee river, within a few miles of Toledo, and might, perhaps, be considered with more propriety suburbs ⚫ of that place, than independent ports of entry. The commerce of Perrysburgh is returned by the collector as follows:

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That of Maumee city is ascertained from the same source to be

Imports
Exports

$16,207

30,557

46,764

Toledo is, in one respect, more advantageously situated for an extensive lake commerce than perhaps any other western port, from the fact that it has two canals, both connecting it with the Ohio, terminating in its port: one the Miami and Erie canal to Cincinnati, and the other the Erie and Wabash canal, intercommunicating with Evansville, Indiana, and traversing the entire Wabash valley, which thereby renders the richest portion of the entire State of Indiana tributary to its traffic. This circumstance, when taken in connexion with the fact that railway transportation has hitherto been unable to compete on equal terms with water for the inland carriage of heavy freight, such as agricultural produce, renders it absolutely certain that, at no very distant date, Toledo must become the grand depot for the lake trade of the valleys of the Miami and Wabash; and, inasmuch as the course of trade for productions of that sort is annually tending more and more to the northward, this is almost tantamount to saying that it must needs be ultimately the great meeting-place and mart for the immense products of all northwestern Ohio and of all northeastern Indiana, these valleys being beyond all doubt the very richest and most fertile portions of the respective States, which cannot be surpassed, if equalled, by any in the Union for their agricultural wealth.

Toledo is well situated on the west side of the Maumee river, at a short distance from the head of Maumee bay, in Lucas county, Ohio, 134 miles NNW. from Columbus and 464 from Washington. Its present population is estimated at about 5,000 individuals, and is constantly on the increase.

One line of railroad is already completed, connecting Toledo with Chicago, known as the Southern Michigan; and another-the lake shore road, which will form an intercommunication with Buffalo, Cleveland, Sandusky, and the other eastern marts and harbors on the lake-is in rapid progress; and will, it may be confidently expected, be finished within a twelve-month, or a little over, which will of course add a new stimulus to the business of Toledo. A third road is also projected through the Miami valley, in the direction of Cincinnati.

These advantages, together with the possession of an excellent harbor and good arrangements for freighting on the lakes, have already so far developed the commerce of this port, as to give the most gratifying assurances in regard to its future progress and prosperity.

The commerce of Toledo, so far as can be ascertained from the scanty returns which have been sent in by the collector, are as follows for the years 1851 and 1847; no comparative statement concerning other years being attainable, from the absence of reports:

Imports coastwise for 1851...

Exports coastwise for 1851..

Total coastwise for 1851

$22,987,772

7,847,808

30,835,580

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The total commerce of the district, including all the ports, for 1851,

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The total enrolled and licensed tonnage for 1851, is 3,286 tons.
Entrances for 1851 in the whole district....1,710.

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..tons 437,996 438,449

876,445

..duty $2,129 do 5,390

7,519

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