Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1879

No. 487.
Mr. Van Dyck to Mr. Hunter.

Cairo, October 17, 1879. (Received November 12.)

Sir: The accompanying statements concerning the Suez Canal are short but comprehensive, and may be of use to the department.

I have, &c.,

EDWARD A. VAN DYCK.

[Inclosure 1 in Mr. Van Dyck’s dispatch.]

Receipts and disbursements, net profits, number of vessels, and tonnage.

Years.	Transit of vessel.	Sundry receipts.	Total.	Expenses of working.	Net profits.	Proportion of expenses to receipts.	Number of vessels.	Tonnage.
	Dollars.	Dollars.	Dollars.	Dollars.	Dollars.	Pr.ct.
1870	1,031,800	353,600	1,385,400	1,291,600	283,800	93.21	486	435,000
1871	1,519,800	1,134,200	2,654,000	1,165,400	1,488,600	43.90	765	761,000
1872	2,867,600	758,400	3,626,000	1,007,800	2,618,200	27.79	1,082	1,439,000
1873	4,165,320	745,000	4,910,320	1,144,000	3,766,320	23.30	1,173	2,085,000
1874	4,530,800	631,400	5,162,200	1,281,800	3,880,400	24.83	1,264	2,424,000
1875	5,286,200	583,800	5,870,000	1,243,200	4,626,800	21.18	1,494	2,941,000
1876	5,526,400	537,200	6,063,600	1,120,000	4,943,600	18.47	1,457	3,072,000
1877	6,035,800	599,400	6,635,200	1,155,200	5,480,000	17.41	1,663	3,419,000
1878	6,219,645	142,530	6,362,175				1,593	3,292,000
Total	37,183,365	5,485,530	42,669,165	9,409,000	27,087,720		10,977	19,868,000

[Inclosure 2 in Mr. Van Dyck’s dispatch.]

[From the Phare d’Alexandria of Thursday, October 16, 1879.]

Number of vessels of each nation.

Nationality.	No. of vessels.	Remarks.
English	8,007
French	741
Holland	363
Austria-Hungary	482
Italian	445
Spanish	150	If the British interest in the canal of Suez be represented by the figure 8, the interest of all the other nations together falls short of the figure 3.
German	208
Ottoman	146
Egyptian	148
Divers nations	298