Note XXXII-14 — Chapter XXXII · INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. 1800-1887.
Reading edition
Comparative values: Indigo—as early as 1630 the yield was 10,000 quintals a year; the production from 1791 to 1800 was 8,752,562 ℔s. at $2 a ℔.; 1864, $1,129,105; 1877, $2,146,423. Coffee—1864, about $80,000; 1877, $2,115,669. Maize—1877, $2,786,433. Sugar and muscovado—1877, $334,361. Rice—1877, $154,728. Hides and deer-skins—1876, $444,805. Cattle—1876, $672,948. Aggregate values for 1876-7—including rum made from molasses, and set down at $925,457—were $15,448,794. These figures are from official sources, but may not be altogether reliable. Salv., Diario Ofic., Oct. 21, 1875; Id., Gaceta Ofic., Feb. 7, 24, 1877; Feb. 19, 1878.