While Puget Sound ranks ninth among the customs districts of the United States in the magnitude of its ocean commerce, measured by the value of its imports and exports, this district stands first in the United States in exports of manufactured lumber, boards, deals and planks; shingles; fowls, and bristles. Second in exports of sheep, buckwheat, oats, baking powder, cotton cloths, dried herring, canned salmon, hay, malt liquors and manufactures of tin. Third in exports of cycles, ginseng, eider, copper ore, printing paper, milk and onions. Fourth in exports of barley, wheat, wheat flour, bran, middlings and mill-feed, candies, canned fruits and gunpowder. Fifth in exports of eggs and malt. Sixth in exports of furniture, salt, hogs, oysters, hops and nursery stock. Seventh in exports of horses and copper, and eighth in exports of fresh fish. [Illustration: Oriental Wharves and Warehouses.] TACOMA’S ocean commerce may be classified as foreign and coastwise. The latter includes chiefly shipments to and receipts by water from Alaska, Hawaii and California. The foreign trade of TACOMA extends to every continent on the globe and to the islands of the sea. The coastwise receipts are chiefly ores, salmon and furs from Alaska, and fruits, general merchandise and manufactures from California. The coastwise shipments consist chiefly of merchandise sold by TACOMA jobbers to customers in Alaska, provisions, machinery, lumber, feed, etc.; bullion, coal, lumber and flour to California, and coal, lumber and merchandise to Hawaii. The foreign commerce of the port consists of imports of silk, tea, mattings, Manila hemp, and other Oriental products, ores for the TACOMA smelter, grain bags for Washington wheat, cement and fire-bricks for building purposes, iron and steel and other foreign commodities imported into the United States; and exports the most valuable of which are Washington products, wheat, flour, canned and salt salmon, lumber, bottled beer, barley, hay and oats, besides cotton, domestics, bicycles, tobacco and other products and manufactures of Eastern and Southern States. But by far the greater part of TACOMA’S exports are products of the State or of TACOMA mills. MISTRESS OF THE ORIENTAL TRADE. The Oriental trade of the Pacific Coast now centers at TACOMA. In June, 1892, the first steamship for the Orient from Puget Sound was dispatched from TACOMA. In 1903, forty-four regular liners sailed from TACOMA for the Orient, carrying cargoes valued at $8,149,906 from TACOMA, and cargo from Seattle valued at $946,318.