_Production of Raisins in California from to 1889:_
Twenty-
pound
boxes.
1873 6,000
1874 9,000
1875 11,000
1876 19,000
1877 32,000
1878 48,000
1879 65,000
1880 75,000
1881 90,000
1882 115,000
1883 140,000
1884 175,000
1885 500,000
1886 700,000
1887 800,000
1888 963,000
1889 1,000,000
The California crop, from 1885 to 1889, was divided between the various
raisin districts of the State about as follows:
==============================+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======
| 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889.
------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
Fresno |107,000|225,000|350,000|440,000|475,000
Riverside and San Bernardino |129,000|195,000|190,000|270,000|265,000
Orange County and Los Angeles}|139,000|180,000| 85,000| 42,000| 8,000
County }| | | | |
Woodland and Davisville | 67,000| 75,000|125,000 115,000|120,000
San Diego | 10,000| 25,000| 20,000| 40,000| 75,000
Tulare | 6,000| 8,000| 10,000| 11,000| 15,000
Kern | -- | -- | -- | -- | 4,000
Scattering | 12,000| 15,000| 20,000| 25,000| 25,000
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
|470,000|723,000|800,000|943,000|987,000
------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
_Number of Acres in Raisin Grapes in California in 1890:_
Fresno district 30,000 acres.
Balance of San Joaquin valley 10,000 “
San Bernardino district 5,000 “
San Diego and El Cajon 6,000 “
Yolo and Solano 8,000 “
Balance of the State 7,000 “
------
66,000 “
This includes grapes in bearing, as well as vines lately set out.
_California and Malaga Prices, Importations, etc., from 1871 to 1889:_
The following statistics of prices of California and Malaga raisins have
been mostly compiled from various sources, such as the Fresno
_Expositor_, the San Francisco _Journal of Commerce_, the _Fruit
Grower_, etc. These statistics and notes will give a fair idea of the
progress made by the raisin industry in this State since 1873, the year
when our raisins first cut any conspicuous figure in the market of this
continent. The first struggle of the raisin-producers of this Coast was
directed against the importers of Malaga raisins, and against the
prejudice of our own consumers. It took about ten years to supersede the
Malaga product by our own. The following table gives the importation of
Malaga raisins to this State from 1871 to 1884:
Twenty-
pound
boxes.
1871 16,534
1872 36,153
1873 27,692
1874 35,447
1875 22,228
1876 29,187
1877 13,357
1878 14,824
1879 10,884
1880 3,988
1881 1,719
1882 1,218
1883 633
1884 1,437
1885 800
1886 --
1887 --
1888 --
1889 --
It will be observed that the imports began to fall off in 1875, being
that year more than 13,000 boxes short of the preceding year. In 1876
the importations struggled back to 29,187, still being more than 6,000
boxes short of the importations of 1874; and then the battle was
practically won, for in the succeeding years the importations dwindled
away until in 1883 only 633 boxes were imported. The figures from 1886
to date are not obtainable, but are so insignificant as to be considered
unnecessary to record.
_1873._--In 1873 the market was liberally supplied with Malaga raisins,
which brought at wholesale the following prices: Layers, whole boxes,
$3.00 to $3.75; half boxes, $3.62½; quarters, $3.75; eighths, $4.00 to
$4.25; London layers, $4.50.
_1874._--Coming down to 1874, the Malaga still holds the fort, layers
bringing $3.25 for whole boxes, and $3.12½ for half boxes, with the
customary advance on fractions. In all this time the California raisin
was too insignificant for notice, and was not quoted by commercial
papers.
_1875._--On January 14, 1875, this significant comment appears in the
_Journal of Commerce_: “A decided change is being wrought in the markets
of this coast respecting the use of Malaga raisins, figs, Zante
currants, Hungarian prunes, almonds, walnuts, etc. In fact, from this
time forward Pacific Coast supplies of bunch raisins and dried fruits
generally are to be produced here in large quantities, and in favorable
seasons we will doubtless have a large surplus of almonds (hard, soft
and paper shells), English walnuts, chestnuts, hickory nuts, raisins,
figs, etc.”
On November 4, 1875, it was recorded that up to the 1st of November
there had been received 6,000 boxes of California raisins, “the quality
generally good,” worth from eight to ten cents per pound, say $2.00 and
$2.25 per box of twenty-two pounds net; London layers, $3.50 and $3.75.
_1876._--In January of 1876 Malagas were quoted at $3.25 and $3.50,
California raisins bringing ten and twelve and one-half cents per pound.
The following comment was made at that time, which may be considered as
another mile-stone in the progress of the California industry: “Malaga
raisins have been imported to very much less extent the present than
last season, owing to the large products of California cured, which
latter have amounted to upwards of 30,000 boxes, about one-half of which
have been of prime quality, suitable for table use, a portion being
poorly cured and considerably inferior to the imported, but have sold at
lower rates for ordinary cooking purposes.”
The California raisin was now fairly on its feet, so to speak, and was
in lively competition with the Malaga dried grape. The market reports
spoke well of Blowers’ California Muscatels and Briggs’ bunch raisins.
The jobbers, however, were loth to give up the Malaga; but to sell that
article they had to import an extra choice quality, as the public was
beginning to show a marked preference for the home product. In proof of
this the following extract, dated November 9, 1876, is given: “The
quality of the Malaga raisins now here is superior to any ever before
imported, and have a preference over our best California raisins. This,
however, will not always be the case, as experience makes perfect, and
in a few years we will be entirely independent of the Old World for all
sorts of dried fruits.”
_1877._--In November, 1877, very complimentary notice is made of
Blowers’ layer raisins from Woodland, which brought $2.75 and $3.00 per
box. Briggs’ raisins were worth $2.25 and $2.70. This extract, dated
January 18, 1877, is still another landmark in the raisin industry: “The
consumption of raisins has been fully up to the average of past years,
yet divided between Malaga imports and our own California production. Of
the latter, upwards of 20,000 boxes have been already marketed; and, had
it not been for the unusual and unexpected heavy rainfall in October,
there is every reason to believe that our home crop of bunch and layer
raisins would have reached 50,000 boxes of twenty pounds each. Blowers’
Muscat raisins were superior and in every way equal to the imported.
Briggs, of Marysville, also turned out several thousand boxes of bunch,
and others have made a creditable beginning. Enough has been done here
in this line to satisfy our grape-growers that raisin-curing is to be,
in the near future, a prominent California interest, and, to do it
successfully, the sun-drying process is infinitely superior to that of
machine-drying. Sheds must be erected and prepared in time to protect
the fruit from early rain, and then the working process is sure to all
who have the right kind of grapes. Then uniform weight in twenty, ten
and five pound boxes, all handsomely put up in fancy papered boxes, and
California then will be prepared to secure all the raisin trade west of
the Rocky Mountains, and a good part of that of the Eastern States. As
it is, those of our merchants importing Malaga raisins from New York
confine themselves to London layers and others of the best and choicest
quality, leaving the home market to be cared for, in a great measure, by
those of our own production. As a result, raisins have ruled low all the
winter, and are likely to do so for a long time to come.”
_1878._--In 1878 several carloads of California raisins were sent to
Chicago, New York and Boston, and were well received by the trade. In
October of that year, California layers were bringing $2.50 and $3.25.
Imports had fallen away more than forty per cent from the figures of
1874.
_1879._--In 1879 the ruling prices for California raisins, in lots of
250 boxes and upwards, were: Common layers, $2.00 for wholes, $2.25 for
halves, $2.50 for quarters, $3.00 for eighths; London layers, $2.25 to
$2.50 for wholes, $2.50 to $2.75 for halves, $2.75 to $3.00 for
quarters, $3.25 to $3.50 for eighths.
_1880._--In October, 1880, the following quotations were made: Briggs’
layers, $2.00 and $2.75 per box. California raisins, in lots of 250
boxes and upwards, common layers, $2.50 and $2.25 per box; London
layers, $2.50 per box.
_1881._--In November of 1881, Malaga ruled high in the East, and in
consequence prices were generally higher here, quotations for the
California article running $2.50 for wholes, $2.75 for halves, $3.00 for
quarters, and $3.25 for eighths, in lots of one hundred boxes. London
layers, twenty-five cents per box more.
_1882._--In 1882 prices ran $2.37½ and $2.75. During all the period just
reviewed, the duty was two and a half cents per pound on raisins; but in
March, 1883, the duty was reduced to two cents, and yet importations for
that year were only 633 boxes,--a rather singular fact. The reduction in
duty does not seem to have had a very bad effect on prices, because, as
is easily evident from the small importation, no competition to speak of
was encountered in the local market, and, as in that year the imports at
New York from Spain were many thousands of boxes short, Eastern
competition was reduced to a minimum. Prices here ruled through the year
at an average of from seven to eight cents a pound, anything especially
choice bringing better prices.
_1883._--In 1883 California made a big stride forward in packing and
curing, and fancy raisins were put up in layers and cartoons. The Dehesa
brand and other fancy brands made their appearance, and as high as one
dollar was paid for quarters of five pounds each, and T. C. White’s and
Miss Austin’s brands became famous.
_1884._--In 1884, the year following that in which the duty was reduced
to two cents, the following prices prevailed:
In January the following quotations are recorded: Malaga layers, $3.50
for wholes, $5.00 for halves, and $5.50 for quarters in frames. Valencia
raisins, fifteen cents per pound. Loose Muscatels, $1.60. London layers,
$4.00. Briggs, wholes $2.50,--usual advance of twenty-five cents on
fractions. Blowers, wholes $----, quarters $3.50, eighths $3.75. Other
raisins, $2.50 in large lots; quarter and eighth boxes twenty-five cents
higher.
In August the following were the quotations: Malaga layers, $3.50 for
wholes, $4.00 for halves, and $4.50 for quarters in frames. Valencias,
fifteen cents per pound. Loose Muscatels, $1.90. London layers, $3.00.
Briggs, wholes $1.40, halves $1.75, quarters $2.25, eighths $2.75.
Blowers, wholes $2.25, halves $2.50, quarters $2.75, eighths $3.00.
In October the following quotations are to be found: Common layers,
$1.00 to $1.25 for wholes, $1.50 for halves, $1.75 for quarters, $2.25
for eighths. London layers, $1.35 to $1.50 for wholes, $1.95 for halves,
$2.00 for quarters, $2.50 for eighths.
In November, 1884, the following comment is made: The California raisin
pack will probably be 100,000 boxes. There would have been much more but
for the October rains, that prevented proper curing. The crop in Europe
is short, too, and prices are much higher than they were a year ago. It
is said that 15,000 boxes have been sold for the East. We quote: Malaga
layers, $3.75 for wholes, $4.00 for halves, and $4.50 for quarters in
frames. Valencia raisins, fifteen cents per pound. Loose Muscatels,
$1.90. London layers, $4.00. Briggs, wholes $1.75, halves $2.00,
quarters $2.35 to $2.50. Blowers, wholes $2.00, halves $2.25, quarters
$2.50, eighths $2.75. California layers, wholes $1.50, halves $1.75,
quarters $2.00.
_1885._--In 1885 the market showed a gratifying ability to absorb at
profitable rates a good article, for prices ran: California common
layers, $1.75 for wholes, $2.00 for halves, $2.25 for quarters. Briggs,
wholes $2.00, with an advance of twenty-five cents on fractions.
Blowers, $2.25 for wholes, with an advance of twenty-five cents on
fractions.
_1886._--In 1886 quotations show that only extra choice Malagas were
imported, and that, too, for a limited trade. Prices were: Malaga
layers, $4.00 for wholes, $4.25 and $4.75 for halves and quarters.
Valencia raisins, fifteen cents per pound. London layers, $3.00.
California layers, wholes $1.75,--usual advance of twenty-five cents on
fractions. Briggs, wholes $2.00, halves $2.25, etc. Blowers, wholes
$2.25,--usual advance on fractions.
For 1886 the market is reviewed as follows: The past year has been the
greatest for California dried fruit that the State has ever seen. There
has been an increase in every item, and a specially heavy increase in
the matter of raisins, the production of which has increased so fast
that they have become a leading article of merchandise. Where we were
large importers and generous consumers, more in proportion to our size
than any one else in the world, we have almost totally ceased
importation and are among the largest producers and exporters in the
world, next to Spain itself. The total receipts of imported raisins at
New York for the season of 1886-87 were as follows: 911,816 boxes of
Valencias, 427,936 boxes of Malagas, 400 half boxes of Malagas, 88,657
boxes of Sultanas. The California pack is this year almost doubled, and
shows great improvement in quality and packing.
_1887._--In October, 1887, prices were quoted as follows: London layers,
per box, $2.00 to $2.25. Loose Muscatels, from $1.50 to $1.80.
Riverside, El Cajon and Fresno raisins of excellent quality are now in
the market, and Butler and Forsyth raisins in Fresno begin to rival the
very best imported brands. Many large packing-houses are established in
Fresno, Riverside and El Cajon.
_1888._--The pack reaches in California 850,000 boxes, and the Fresno as
well as the Riverside raisins are very large and choice. Forsyth and
Butler raisins take the lead, some of the choicest layers bringing as
high as one dollar per five-pound quarter box. Only 112,000 boxes of
Malaga raisins are imported to the United States.
In October, 1888, the following prices were obtained for imported
raisins at auction sale in New York: 645 boxes best London Layers, $3.25
to $3.12½; 348 Imperial Cabinets, $3.35 to $3.20; 200 fine Dehesa
Bunches, $4.50 to $3.75; 50 Imperial Dehesa Bunches, $5.65; 104 Dehesa
Bunches, $4.05 to $4.00; 100 Finest Selected Clusters, $4.45 to $4.40;
50 Finest Royal Clusters, $4.75; 3 Imperial Excelsior Dehesa Loose
Muscatels, $5.00; 140 Imperial Loose Muscatels, $3.30 to $2.15; 1
Imperial Excelsior Dehesa Clusters, $5.50; 9 Imperial Dehesa Clusters,
$5.12½ to $5.00; 2 Dehesa Dessert Fruit, $4.10; 1,194 Finest Valencia
Layers, 8⅛ to 8 cents; 899 Finest Valencia Raisins, 7 to 6¾ cents; 150
half boxes Finest Valencia Layers, 8⅛ to 8 cents; 246 boxes Finest
Sultanas, 8¼ to 8 cents.
At the same time California layers were quoted at from $1.80 to $2.25
for medium grades, while for Dehesa and Imperial quarter boxes from
eighty cents to one dollar were realized. Raisins in sweatboxes were
bought by packers at five cents per pound, prices not rated according to
quality.
_1889._--The crop of 1889 was not as large as at first calculated, on
account of loss through unusual and heavy rains. It was especially the
second crop which suffered. The first crop was good, and brought good
prices, average layers bringing from $1.75 to $2.25 per box of twenty
pounds. Great improvement is made in packing and labels, and our average
raisins are better than the average imported Malagas. Our choicest
layers, however, do not yet equal in size, curing and packing the
choicest Malagas, and no efforts have been made to compete with them.
There are at least four higher grades packed in Malaga which we do not
produce here. During last season raisins in sweatboxes have ruled higher
than before, and have been bought by packers at from three to seven
cents.
_1890 (to July)._--The crop promises to be as large as last year. It is
greatly in demand, and representatives of Eastern and California dealers
have already bought up the most of the coming crop at prices averaging
one-half a cent more per pound than last year.
From the above statistics we learn that through the production of
raisins in California the price of sun-dried raisins to the consumer on
this coast has been lowered from $3.00, $3.75, $4.00 and $4.50 in 1873
to $2.00 and $2.50 in 1890. The importation of Malaga raisins in the
United States has greatly diminished, while that of Valencia or “dipped”
raisins has increased. In 1873, the United States imported 35,271,312
pounds of raisins, for which it paid $2,292,948, while in 1888 our
importation was 40,340,117 pounds, or about five million pounds more,
for which we paid $2,098,503, or about $200,000 less.
_Exports of Valencia Raisins from 1850 to 1889, according to English
estimates:_
=====+========+========+========+=======
YEAR.|England.|America.| Other | Total
| | | Places.| Tons.
-----+--------+--------+--------+-------
1850 | 9,423 | 165 | -- | 9,588
1851 | 8,491 | 285 | 787 | 9,563
1852 | 8,844 | 320 | -- | 9,164
1853 | 7,883 | 99 | 70 | 8,052
1854 | 7,206 | 296 | 50 | 7,552
1855 | 7,464 | 736 | 85 | 8,285
1856 | 8,909 | -- | 12 | 8,921
1857 | 9,485 | -- | -- | 7,900
1858 | 13,542 | 654 | 182 | 14,378
1859 | 9,546 | 163 | 113 | 9,822
1860 | 7,257 | 2,831 | 454 | 10,542
1861 | 8,072 | 63 | 143 | 8,278
1862 | 7,564 | -- | 238 | 7,900
1863 | 12,290 | 125 | 100 | 12,515
1864 | 8,655 | 38 | 182 | 8,875
1865 | 9,863 | 362 | 12 | 10,237
1866 | 12,735 | 403 | 473 | 13,611
1867 | 12,701 | 668 | 177 | 13,546
1868 | 14,293 | 3,095 | 794 | 18,182
1869 | 8,434 | 1,857 | 25 | 10,316
1870 | 10,060 | 2,210 | 110 | 12,380
1871 | 12,578 | 5,210 | 625 | 18,413
1872 | 15,677 | 4,088 | 535 | 20,300
1873 | 10,796 | 2,960 | 710 | 14,466
1874 | 13,724 | 5,513 | 439 | 19,676
1875 | 12,568 | 6,590 | 595 | 19,753
1876 | 15,272 | 3,816 | 676 | 19,764
1877 | -- | -- | -- | --
1878 | -- | -- | -- | --
1879 | 15,231 | 9,525 | 1,244 | 26,100
1880 | 13,026 | 8,977 | 892 | 22,895
1881 | 17,507 | 10,169 | 969 | 28,625
1882 | 18,121 | 21,593 | 1,732 | 41,346
1883 | 19,644 | 16,722 | 3,983 | 40,349
1884 | 10,210 | 9,686 | 4,289 | 24,185
1885 | 10,250 | 9,397 | 3,596 | 23,243
1886 | 15,194 | 15,687 | 16,113 | 36,994
1887 | 16,648 | 18,831 | 3,479 | 38,958
1888 | 15,524 | 12,245 | 4,655 | 32,424
1889 | 12,000 | 14,645 | 1,724 | 27,369
-----+--------+--------+--------+-------
_Exports of Malaga Raisins from 1864 to 1889:_
=====+=========+=======+=======+=======+=======+
YEAR.| U.S. | Brit- | Great |France.| North |
| | ish | Brit- | |Europe.|
| | Col- | ain. | | |
| | on’s. | | | |
-----+---------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
1864 | 879,794| 45,906|258,458|137,379| 59,659|
1865 | 879,794| 75,708|269,072|171,743| 64,319|
1866 | 907,305| 72,208|220,756|178,862| 62,076|
1867 | 966,724| 96,124|166,737|129,391| 58,222|
1868 |1,053,726|125,407|222,426|163,306| 64,262|
1869 | 767,321| 58,265|175,602|117,612| 82,472|
1870 |1,331,937|120,039|216,015| 90,193| 57,687|
1871 |1,147,633| 98,817|183,916|161,123| 69,800|
1872 |1,325,705| 95,024|383,890|230,046| 72,788|
1873 |1,368,822| 45,495|241,325|196,239| 99,424|
1874 |1,320,000| 43,490|240,000|200,000| 99,500|
1875 | 976,000| 42,000|271,000|203,000| 98,000|
1876 |1,321,000| 52,000|357,000|276,000|115,000|
1877 |1,250,000| 56,600|250,000|300,000|100,000|
1878 |1,182,088| 58,242|194,471|330,767| 99,661|
1879 |1,146,228| 30,598|237,659|368,420|107,888|
1880 |1,115,101| 46,717|174,126|297,412|108,222|
1881 |1,043,727| 31,730|141,415|251,382|101,828|
1882 | 967,571| 38,431|176,349|277,253|130,646|
1883 | --| --| --| --| --|
1884 | --| --| --| --| --|
1885 | --| --| --| --| --|
1886 | --| --| --| --| --|
1887 | --| --| --| --| --|
1888 | --| --| --| --| --|
1889 | 120,000| --| --| --| --|
-----+---------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
=====+=======+=======+=========+======
YEAR.| South | Sun- | Total | Total
| Am. | dries.| Boxes. | Tons.
| | | |
| | | |
-----+-------+-------+---------+------
1864 |109,741|209,000|1,200,000|13,200
1865 | 96,658|255,000|1,800,000|19,800
1866 |115,305|191,000|1,750,000|19,250
1867 |116,762|135,000|1,670,000|18,370
1868 |103,082|215,000|1,950,000|22,450
1869 | 67,634| 80,800|1,350,000|14,850
1870 |113,755|270,000|2,200,000|24,200
1871 | 87,242|274,000|2,200,000|24,200
1872 |119,042| --|1,920,000|21,120
1873 | --|140,000|2,500,000|27,500
1874 | --| --|2,160,000|23,760
1875 | --| 98,000|1,670,000|18,370
1876 | --| 91,000|2,252,000|24,772
1877 | --| --|2,200,000|24,200
1878 | 98,429|211,000|2,180,000|23,980
1879 | 63,688|170,000|2,125,000|23,372
1880 | 75,456|197,000|2,015,000|22,165
1881 | 81,196|147,000|1,800,000|19,800
1882 | 98,007|178,000|1,200,000|13,200
1883 | --| --| --| --
1884 | --| --| --| --
1885 | --| --| --| --
1886 | --| --| --| --
1887 | --| --| 850,000| 9,350
1888 | --| --| 850,000| 8,250
1889 | --| --| 750,000| --
-----+-------+-------+---------+------
_First Cost of Crop of Valencia Raisins, according to the “California
Fruit Grower:”_
1884, from $4.00 to $6.00 per hundred pounds.
1885, “ 5.00 to 6.00 “ “ “
1886, “ 3.00 to 5.00 “ “ “
1887, 4.00 “ “ “
1888, from 2.00 to 4.00 “ “ “
1889, 3.50 “ “ “
_Production and Distribution of Smyrna Raisins from 1844 to 1884,
according to U. S. Consular Reports:_
1844 8,000 tons.
1868 19,000 “
1871 48,000 “
1872 31,000 “
1879 75,000 “
1881 49,000 “
1884 95,000 “
According to English estimates, the raisin crop of Smyrna only reached
27,000 tons in 1876, and was divided as follows:
_Red Raisins._--Chesme 5,100 tons.
Vourla 5,000 “
Yerly 2,800 “
Carabourna 1,600 “
------
14,500 tons.
_Sultanas._--Chesme 7,400 tons.
Vourla 3,100 “
Yerly 1,150 “
Carabourna 800 “
----- 12,450 tons.
------
26,950 tons.
This crop was distributed as follows:
_Red Raisins._--England 2,699 tons.
North of Europe 6,488 “
Trieste 2,260 “
Russia and Turkey 2,995 “
----- 14,442 tons.
_Sultanas._--England 7,945 tons.
North of Europe 1,525 “
Trieste 2,820 “
Russia, etc. 285 “
----- 12,575 tons.
------
27,017 tons.
_The World’s Raisin Production in 1889:_
Greece 125,000 tons.
Smyrna 120,000 “
Valencia 28,000 “
Lipari, Calabria and Pantellaria 15,000 “
California 10,000 “
Malaga 8,000 “
Scattered 5,000 “
Chile 1,000 “
-------------
312,000 tons.
The above does not include dried wine grapes from Italy, California and
Algiers, nor any raisins made in Australia (Victoria).
_Statement Showing the Quantity and Value of Currants, Figs and Raisins
Imported and Entered for Consumption in the United States from 1873 to
1878:_
====+=======================++=====================++
YEAR| RAISINS. || CURRANTS, ||
END-| || ZANTE AND ALL OTHER.||
ING +----------+------------++----------+----------++
JUNE| QUANTITY.| VALUE. || QUANTITY.| VALUE. ||
30. | | || | ||
+----------+------------+++---------+----------++
| Pounds. | Dollars. || Pounds. | Dollars. ||
1873|35,271,312|2,292,948 83||14,141,797|566,386 49||
1874|36,419,922|2,544,605 95||19,319,191|752,694 00||
1875|30,501,316|2,443,155 50||19,334,458|771,384 56||
1876|32,221,065|2,425,277 14||20,911,061|856,425 62||
1877|32,419,637|2,109,333 60||17,152,664|749,488 00||
1878|32,931,736|1,904,866 13||17,941,352|776,827 00||
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YEAR|| FIGS.
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JUNE||QUANTITY.| VALUE.
30. || |
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|| Pounds. | Dollars.
1873||7,995,035|506,205 45
1874||5,630,292|391,300 16
1875||4,659,860|357,823 99
1876||5,056,779|361,835 53
1877||5,889,011|398,982 22
1878||3,873,884|262,428 15
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_Statement Showing the Quantity and Value of Currants, Figs and Raisins
Imported and Entered for Consumption in the United States, with Rates of
Duty, etc., from 1879 to 1888:_