TABLE LXXXIX-STEAM CRAFT-Statement of the number, tonnage, value,

b Average wages, $764 69 per annum, including officers, crews, and roustabouts.

Dollars.

2, 394, 754

2,230, 704 73,000 6, 250 84, 800

52

6, 805. 14

31

5,093. 51

351, 100

5

342.34

23, 600

368, 300 24,600

5

115. 12

7,400

11

1,254. 17

155, 200

7,400 142, 600

a Average wages, $472 61 per annum, including officers, crews, and roustabouts.
b Includes 20,306 railroad transfers.

REMARKS.-In the foregoing tables this steamboat property has been assigned to the states where it was owned in 1880. In cases where the ownership was observed or divided the legal headquarters or the address of the managing owner was taken as authority for assigning the craft to a state, but very few of these perplexing cases were found. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, owned in New York but operating lines from San Francisco, under this ruling was assigned to the state of New York.

capital invested, service, and traffic of the steam craft, by states: 1880-Continued.

e Average of coal used, per ton of custom-house measurement, 0.26 ton; wood, 0.73 cord.

c Average of coal used, per ton of custom-house measurement, 0.12 ton; wood, 9.76 cords.

e Includes 311,660 tons railroad transfer freight.

d Average of coal used, per ton of custom-house measurement, 3.34 tons; wood, 1.14 cords.

State interests are divided in many cases, in order to show the groupings. Lake Champlain is not classed with the northwestern lakes, as is usually the case, and the group of the Upper Missouri includes the Red River of the North, while in all the groups tributary streams are included. Group IV, for instance, represents the Ohio river and its tributaries.

TABLE XC.-STEAM CRAFT-Statement of the approximate number, tonnage, and valus

States

a The excess of steam tonnage over that reported by the Register of the Treasury is due to the enumeration of state water interests and small yachts under five tons.

There are ten vessels, measuring 125.07 tons, in Alaska not included but reported by the Register of the Treasury.

of the steamers, sailing-vessels, canabboats, barges, flats, and wharf-boats of the United for 1880.

Number, 38,656, tonnage, 6,487,309.63; value, $155,784,709.

e Valuations by insurance experts on a basis of $25 per ton, decimal omitted.

d Including 18 cable boats on Erie canal.

TABLE XC.—STEAM CRAFT-Statement of the approximate number, tonnage, and value of the steamers, sailing-vessels, &c.-Continued.

Grand total for the United States of craft of all descriptions: Number, 38,656; tonnage, 6,487,309.63; value, $155,784,709.