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TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES: — EGYPT

Country-

No.

Gross Tonnage

1 Country

No. 1

Gross Tonnage

Great Britain.

1,905

7,389,237

Portugal.

366

Germany

325

1,194,106

Egypt.

3

5,344

France

202

807,995

America.

3

6,627

Italy

71

198,161

China

3

5,916

Holland.

■206

532,272

Sweden

1

1,648

Austria- Huijgarv

78

265,231

Denmark.

2

1,954

Spain

. 48

199,695

Siam

2

4,457

Russia

44

218,514

Mexico

1

891

Norway. Turkey

48

7

117,794

7,770

Total.

2,986

11,123,403

Japan

36

165,425

The number and gross tonnage of vessels that have ]>assed through the Suez Canal, and the gross iecei})ts of the company, have been as follows in six years : —

Year

1892 1893 1894

No. of Vessels

3,550 3,341 3,352

T^nnSe ^'^''^'^

Year

No. of Vessels

Gross Tonnage

11,833,637 12,039,850 11,123,403

!

Receipts

& ■10,866,401 2,078,097 10,753,798 2,826,694 11,283,855 2,951,073

1895 1896 1897

3,434 3,409 2,986

1

£ 1

3,124,149 ; 3,182,800 1 2,913,222 '

The number of passengers who went through the canal in 1897 was 191,224, as against 308,241 in 1896.

The Suez Canal is 87 miles long, 66 actual canal and 21 miles lakes, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, opened for navigation November 17, 1869.

The state of the capital account as regards bonds in circulation and re- deemed was as follows, on December 31, 1897 : —

Capital, 400,000 shares at 500 francs. .

Consolidation of unpaid coupons, 400,000

bonds at 85 francs .... Loan (1867-68), 333,333 obligations at 300

francs

Loan (1871), 120,000 30-year bonds at 100

francs

Loan (1880), 73,026 3 per cent, obligations,

various prices

Loan (1887), 195,000 3 per cent, obligations

Francs Francs

I .■590,599 in circulation 195,290,500 \ „ \ 9,401 redeemed ( 394,434 in circulation I 5,566 redeemed

( 231,844 in circulation I 101,480 redeemed . f 31,600 in circulation I 88,400 redeemed

3,779 redeemed 1,793 redeemed

4,700,-500 i-'^*^'^^<^''^0" 33,526,890 \ 473,110 i 69,553,200 ) 30,446,700)

3,160,000 \

8,840,000)

34,000,000 99,999,900 12,000,000

Revenues ajiplied to improvement of canal

— 26,999,962

— 90,120,877

463,120,739 . 151,174,307

614,295,046

There were besides, 100,000 founders' shares, with right to participate in surplus profit under certain conditions. In 1897 the net protits amounted to 39,315,531 francs, and the total amount distributed among the share- holders was 40,913,803 francs.