====+==========+============+=======+============+========== YEAR| QUANTITY.| VALUE. | Rate | AMOUNT OF |Additional END-| | | of | DUTY | and ING | | | Duty. | COLLECTED. | Discrim- JUNE| | | | | inating 30. | | | | | Duty. ----+----------+------------+-------+------------+---------- | Pounds. | Dollars. |Per lb.| Dollars. | Dollars. 1879| 3,369,475| 247,075 06|2½ c. | 84,236 89| -- 1880| 6,266,413| 440,507 00|2½ c. | 156,660 34| -- 1881| 3,420,427| 379,382 55|2½ c. | 85,510 72| -- 1882| 8,874,186| 678,341 87|2½ c. | 221,854 70| -- 1883| 5,345,324| 489,108 38|2½ c. | 133,633 09| -- 1884| 7,840,634| 504,532 02|2 cts. | 156,812 68| -- 1885| 7,774,492| 516,083 63|2 cts. | 155,489 84| 6 50 1886| 6,988,642| 499,985 80|2 cts. | 139,772 84| -- 1887| 8,752,898| 488,632 00|2 cts. | 175,057 96| 137 00 1888| 9,965,584| 495,541 50|2 cts. | 199,311 68| -- ----+----------+------------+-------+------------+----------- _Statement of Consumption of Currants and Raisins per Head of Total Population in 1884:_ United Kingdom of Great Britain. 4.38 pounds. United States of North America. 1.70 “ _Prices Ruling in the California Raisin Districts:_ It is not my intention to give here a regular prospective estimate of the cost of a raisin vineyard and the profits to be derived therefrom. Such an estimate, applicable to every case, cannot be made out; about it not two raisin-growers with equal experience would agree. Below I simply give isolated statistics of costs of the various operations necessary in the raisin industry. Each one can figure for himself, and my advice is to add liberally to the calculated expenses, if disappointment would be avoided.