Congressional Serial Set Volume 4998 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...year it was estimated at #200,000. Another incentive to trade is the annually growing number of tourists who now visit the country in spring and autumn, arriving frequently in specially chartered vessels. GOOD CROPS AND EXPORTS OF CEREALS, FRUIT, AND WINE. The exports and imports in 1905 totaled 4,047,000, an increase of $308,000 over the previous year. There was a considerable quantity of millet, lupines, wheat, and beans exported. Nearly 2,000,000 bushels of barley, worth about #600,000, were exported from Gaza district. The export of oranges increased 10 per cent, amounting to $558.100. Scotland was the heaviest buyer of oranges. Prices rose toward the end of the season, and the good profits give further encouragement to this trade. New orange groves have been planted in different directions about Jaffa. Greater quantities of watermelons were also shipped, the value being 92,000. The grape crop was very abundant, and there was considerable activity displayed in the wine industry in the Jewish colonies, where the manufacture is largely for export. Wines and spirits went to Germany, Great Britain, and the United States to the value of $228,820, representing 3,708,400 kilos (kilo--2.20 pounds), or an increase of $45,000 ovei 1904. As regards other articles of export, there was an increase in religious ornaments and hides, but a decrease in soap, sesame, wool, and colocynth. LIBERAL FOREIGN PURCHASES. The imports of Palestine last year amounted to $2,258,000. Hardware, petroleum, cotton goods, sugar, and building materials, such as iron bars and girders, timber and tiles, and bricks, show a steady increase during the last five years, denoting a growing population both in Jerusalem and Jaffa. The value of cotton goods imported last year was $87(5, ...