TOTAL COINAGE OF THE UNITED STATES MINT, 1793 to 1881, INCLUSIVE. From the Official Report of the Director of the Mint, TOTAL COINAGE OF THE UNITED STATES MINT 1793 TO 1881. IN CLUSIVE (Continued). This great ship canal, one hundred miles in length, connects Suez on the Red Sea with Port Saïd on the Mediterranean. It was commenced by a company, aided by large subscriptions of the governments of Egypt, France, and England, in 1858, and opened November 17, 1869. It is 72 feet wide at the bottom, about 300 feet at the surface, and 26 feet in depth, easily passing the largest vessels. The controlling interest in the canal was purchased for £4,000,000, in 1875, by the British government, which now holds it. The following table exhibits the prodigious increase of business on this great work : 1.519,800 1,134,200 2.654.000 1,165,400 1.488,600 Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. per cent. 1870. 1,031.800 353 600 1,385,400 1,291.600 94.000 1871. 1872. 758.400, 3.626,000 1,007.800 2.618,200 1873. 4,165,320 745,000 4.910,320 1,144.000 3.766.000 1874.. 4,530,800 631.400 5.162.200 1,281,800 3.880.400 1875.. 5,286.200 583.800 5.870.000 1,243,200 4,625,800 1876.. 5,526,400 537.200 6,063,600 1,120,000 4.943,400 1877.. 6,035,800 599,400 6.635,200 1.155,200 5,480,000j 1878...... 6,219,646 142,532 6,362,178. 1879...... 5,937,212 135,003 6,072,215. 93.21 43.90 27.79 1,082 1,439,000 23.30 1,173 2,085.000 24.83 1,264 2,424,000 21.18 1,494 2,941,000 18.47 1,457 3,072,000 17.41 1,663 8,419,000 ........ 1,593 8,291,535 1880..... 7,997,008, 150,880 8,147,888. 1,477 8,236.942 2,017 4,378,064 VALUE OF FOREIGN COINS IN UNITED STATES MONEY. As Proclaimed by the Treasury Department. The foregoing estimation, made by the Director of the Mint, of the value of the foreign coins above mentioned, I hereby proclaim to be the values of such coins expressed in the money of account of the United States, and to be taken in estimating the values of all foreign merchandise, made out in any of said currencies, imported on or after January 1, 1882. CHARLES J. FOLGER, |