This was as follows:
| Wheat flour, rice flour, buckwheat flour, cornmeal, oatmeal, barleymeal, ryemeal, per 100 kilograms, gross, | $4 00 |
| Pork, per 100 kilograms, net | 9 90 |
| Beef and all other meats, per 100 kilograms, net | 6 50 |
| Sausage, per 100 kilograms, gross | 20 |
| Hay, per 100 kilograms, gross | 80 |
| Pig iron, per 100 kilograms, net | 50 |
| Bar iron, per 100 kilograms, net | 2 15 |
| Barb wire (for fencing), per 100 kilograms, net | 40 |
| Coal, per 100 kilograms, net | 60 |
| Patent medicines, including weight of container and wrapper | 35 |
One hundred kilograms amounts to something over two hundred pounds.
The people on the island are rather luxurious, so much so that in one year five million dollars worth of goods were carried there. These goods consisted principally of manufactured products, such as clothing and household wares.
The principal exports from the United States have been flour, pork, lard, lumber and shooks.
But, of course, all this will be largely increased now that Porto Rico is practically a portion of the United States, and the increased commerce will be to the advantage of both.
During the five years from 1893 to 1897, the trade of Porto Rico with the United States has been as follows:
| Exports to United States: | Imports from United States: | |
| 1893 | $4,008,623 | $2,510,007 |
| 1894 | 3,135,634 | 2,720,508 |
| 1895 | 1,506,512 | 1,833,544 |
| 1896 | 2,296,653 | 2,102,094 |
| 1897 | 2,181,024 | 1,988,888 |
Whatever disadvantages Porto Rico may possess, and when all is said and done, they are beyond question few, it is certainly lovely enough and prolific enough to make one forget them all.
A writer in Ainslee's Magazine concludes his very clever article as follows, and undoubtedly every word he says is true: