SKILTON, Consul-General to By the President: W. Hunter, October 5, 1877

No. 37. Mr. Skilton to Mr. Hunter.

Sir: In compliance with circular “separate” of July 13, 1877, relating to methods for increasing the commerce of the United States with Mexico, anticipating, as is directed by the circular, the annual commercial report of this consulate-general, soon to be consolidated from the reports of consuls, and otherwise made up and forwarded, I beg to transmit copies of two communications received by this consulate from two gentlemen, one now, and the other recently, in Mexico, the representatives of two business-houses of New York City, in which communications some suggestions are found bearing upon the subject.

For the moment I confine myself to mentioning the additional measure of the subvention by the Government of the United States of steam or sail freight-vessels to carry merchandise from ports of the United States to Mexican ports, at freights so reduced that goods from the United States can more successfully compete with European goods.

Very respectfully, &c.,

Appendix.

Merchandise suiting Mexican market.

• Acids.
• Plows and cultivators.
• Beer, ale, and porter.
• Bells.
• Billiard-tables.
• Blacking.
• Engravings.
• Biscuit.
• Rye-flour.
• Brooms and brushes.
• Candles (patent).
• Railroad cars and engines.
• Machinery of all kinds.
• Clocks.
• Coal.
• Coal-oil and petroleum.
• Boots and shoes.
• Pianos.
• Organs.
• Cartridges and fuses.
• Gunpowder.
• Mining-powder.
• Paints, oils, and colors.
• Patty.
• Paper.
• Stationery.
• Printing-press and type.
• Bacon and hams.
• Butter and cheese.
• Condensed milk.
• Dried fish.
• Canned meats, fish, and fruits.
• Cotton, bleached in thread.
• Cotton, bleached in the piece.
• Cotton goods, printed.
• Ducks.
• Drills.
• Sail-cloth.
• Cotton yarn.
• Drugs and chemicals.
• Fancy goods.
• Glassware.
• Hats and caps.
• India-rubber goods, manufactures of.
• Nails and spikes.
• Edge tools.
• Hardware, shelf.
• Arms and revolvers.
• Varnish.
• Ready-made clothes.
• Household furniture.
• Wooden-ware.
• Willow-ware.
• Canned vegetables.
• Quicksilver.
• Sewing-machines.
• Perfumery.
• Trunks and valises.
• Carpets.
• Oilcloths.
• Harness.
• Coachmakers’ furnishings.
• Soaps.