CONTENTS.

DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR.'

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, March 5, 1891.

To the consular officers of the United States:

GENTLEMEN: You are instructed to report upon the stave trade in your re-

spective districts, so as to cover the following outline: (1) Give an approximate

estimate of the number and value of staves used; (2) the kind of staves in great-

est demand; (3) the source of supply and the cost to the consumer of the vari-

ous kinds; (4) describe the condition in which staves should be delivered, in

order to command the best price and to give the most satisfaction; (5) give the

correct dimensions of the staves in use; (6) state the kind of timber most desir-

able for the particular kind of stave desired; (7) the conditions of supply and

demand; (8) whether any American staves are sold at present in your district;

(9) any general information obtainable which is not called for in the eight inter-

rogatories above.

I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM F. WHARTON,

Assistant Secretary.

CONTINENT OF EUROPE.

Austria-Hungary:

Vienna, Consul-General Goldschmidt..

Bohemia, Consul Rublee, of Prague

Fürth, Commercial Agent Dunlap

Trieste, Consul Hartigan..

Belgium:

Antwerp, Consul Steuart

Brussels, Consul Roosevelt

Ghent, Consul Osborne....

Denmark, Consul Ryder, of Copenhagen

France:

Bordeaux, Consul Knowles

Cognac, Consul Preston.

Havre, Consul Williams.

Lyons, Consul Fairfield..

Marseilles, Consul Trail..

Nice, Consul Bradley

Paris, Consul-General King

Roubaix, Commercial Agent Atwell

Germany:

Aix la Chapelle, Consul Zeigler

Barmen, Consul Studer..

Chemnitz, Consul Merritt

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Germany-Continued.

Cologne, Consul Wamer

Crefeld, Consul Blake

Diesden, Consul Palmer.

Dusseldorf, Consul Partello

Frankfort-on-the-Main, Consul-General Mason

Kehl, Consul Johnson...

Mannheim, Consul Winter

Munich, Consul Catlin...

Nuremberg, Consul Black.

Stettin, Consul Kellogg

Italy:

Catania, Consul Heath.

Florence, Consul Long -

Leghorn, Consul Rice

Lombardy, Counsel Pepper, of Messina

Palermo, Consul Pugh.....

Netherlands:

Amsterdam, Consul Schleier

Rotterdam, Consul Gardner

Portugal, Consul-General Batcheller, of Lisbon.

Russia:

St. Petersburg, Consul-General Crawford.

Riga, Consul Bornholdt

Warsaw, Consul Rawicz

Spain:

Barcelona, Consul Bowen

Cadiz, Consul Turner.

Denia, Consul Malmros.

Malaga, Consul Newson

Sweden:

Gothenberg, Consul Shepard...

Stockholm, Vice-Consul Georgii.

Switzerland :

Berne, Vice-Consul-General Hinnen

Lucerne, Consular Agent Williams..

Zurich, Consul Catlin

Turkey, Consul-General Sweeney, of Constantinople.

United Kingdom:

Belfast, Consul Ruby

Cork, Consul Piatt

Dublin, Consul Reid.

Dunfermline, Consular Agent Reid

Falmouth, Consul Fox..

Glasgow, Consul Brown

Leeds, Consul Wigfall.....

Leith and Edinburgh, Consul Bruce

Liverpool, Consul Sherman..

London, Consul-General New

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Consul Metcalf

Sheffield, Consul Folsom

Gibraltar, Consul Sprague.

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CONTINENT OF AMERICA.

Dominion of Canada:

Belleville. Consul Deneen..

Chatham, Consul Webster.

Guelph, Consul Hunt.

Halifax, Consul-General Frye

London, Commercial Agent Leonard

Moncton, Commercial Agent Benedict

Montreal, Consul-General Knapp

Ottawa, Consul-General Lay..

Port Hope, Commercial Agent Shaffer

St. John, New Brunswick, Consul Sampson.

Sherbrooke, Consul Wood

Strafford, Vice-Consul Hirst

Toronto, Consul Pope

Windsor, Ontario, Consul Joslyn.

Mexico:

Nuevo Laredo, Consul-General Sutton...

Piedras Negras, Consul Fechét.

Central America:

Honduras, Consul Peterson, of Tegucigalpa

Nicaragua, Consul Newell, of Managua -

South America:

Argentine Republic, Consul Baker, of Buenos Ayres

Brazil:

Bahia, Consul Burke....

Rio Grande do Sul, Consul Negley.

British Guiana, Consul Carroll, of Demerara

Chile, Consul McCreery, of Valparaiso

Peru, Consul Daugherty, of Callao

Uruguay, Consul Hill, of Montevideo...

Venezuela, Consul Plumacher, of Maracaibo

West Indies :

British West Indies :

Jamaica, Consul Bayley, of Kingston

Trinidad, Consul Pierce.

French West Indies, Consul Keevil, of Martinique.

Haiti, Consul-General Douglass, of Port au Prince.

Spanish West Indies :

Sagua la Grande, Commercial Agent Mullen

Santiago de Cuba, Consul Reimer

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CONTINENT OF ASIA.

China:

Foochow, Consul Gracey...

India, Consul-General Merrill, of Calcutta...

Japan:

Kanagawa, Vice-Consul-General Scidmore.

Nagasaki, Consul Abercrombie ...

Philippine Islands, Consul Webb, of Manila

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