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Show Sills Statistics. New Vork, 9. The fifth annual report of the American silk association associa-tion dhowa that the consumption of raw silk in the United States for 187(3 was within 10 per cent, of that of 1875, which was the year of the largest consumption on record. In Patterson tho sum paid to silk operatives oper-atives was two million dollars. The average advance on all sorts of silk has exceedeu lift) per cent. The ordinary ordi-nary channels of trade now are usually sluggish, and the immediate future oflers few features of encouragement. encour-agement. The fraud on the revenue by under valued invoices was one of the causeB for the depressed state of the market. |