(Continuedfrom puge /)
Bilo to bn (filed the roof is quickly
tliken down. As we have no ensilage
cutter, the grass ia putin whole, using
the large hay fork and tackle, and ia
then tramped dowti solidly. The
task of tramping is the small boys'
work in summer and many are the
happy hours they spend in the silo.
We hope sometime to print a pic
ture of the interior of the barn.
United States Cestoms Service
Port ok ,Texeat, Alaska.
A marked advance in the commer
cial and industrial progress of ihe
Territory is shown in this report of
comm erne and customs for the
calender year 10 1 d, the total
commerce he vine reached the unprec
edented value of nearlr one hundred
and twenty millions of dollaTg (rreat
«r production from natural resources
is i he chi# f element, of increase al
though p-evailirg higher prices of
the principal product commodities
and receipts of merchandise from the
United States, likewise affected, enter
largely into th»» cause.
Th#» of diffpr**nt
sections of the Territory oovered by
the judicial divisions has chanced in
♦ he year. The southern section, or
Third Division, owing to the greatly
increased production of its cooper
♦pines and fisheries ns well as larger
receipts of merchandise from the
United states incident to railroad
construction and resulting settlement
and development of the adjacent
country, takes first place. An increase
in production and trade occurred in
each of the other divisions, the most
important being the First.
The gain in imports of merchandise
from foreign ports is due to regump
tion of copper ore shipments from
the Yukon Territory throiighi Sl.ag
way to British Columbia, the in
creased exports, by the exportation of
ore from the copper mines in the
First Division to the same destina
tion.
During the year several laryeship
merits of supplies, construction mate
rials and operating appliances were
received by the government railroad
regarding which nodefinite informa
tion was recer'*ed at this office and
the value of the name is not obtain
able. Could it have been added to
the imp >r*s the total commerce would
be materially increased.
Within the pi9t year the balance of
trade in favor of the Territory has in
creased from twenty seven to fifty'
millions and the value of its products
from fifty to seventy nine millions of
dollars.
A compilation <»f estimates (v.vpr
ing the shipments of A a«lcan nmd
V)<»♦« from the vp«r 1868 to 1003, and
authentic reports of this nffiee from
the latter to the present year inc n
give presents the following result;
Sea and fur products $323,012.'200.00
Mines and minerals 345,732.111.00
Total .... $668,794,401.00
Substantial gains will be observed
in customs business, number and
tonnage of vessels engag'd both in
foreign and dnm*»s*i * trade Domes
tic trad* : in 1915. Enter, d: 792, *on
nnse 512,314 Cleared: 817. tonnage
515 413 In 191V Entered: 1051. t.on
n »^e 596,817 Cleared: 12(H). tonnage
698,778. Foreign trade: in 1915 En
t. red: 602. ton - age 238,259. Cleared:
585, tonnage222,622. In 1916, Enter
ed: 866, tonnage 367 509. Cleared : 539,
tonnage 329,800.