CUSTOMS DISTRICTS, DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1917.

NOTE.-In the statistical publications the customs districts of the United States are grouped under geographical divisions, each group arranged in alphabetical order, as follows: Atlantic coast.-Connecticut, Georgia, Maine and New Hampshire, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Porto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia. Gulf coast.-Florida, Galveston, Mobile, New Orleans, and Sabine. Mexican border.-Arizona, Eagle Pass, El Paso, and Laredo. Pacific coast.-Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, San Francisco, Southern California, and Washington. Northern border.-Buffalo, Chicago, Dakota, Duluth and Superior, Michigan, Montana and Idaho, Ohio, Rochester, St. Lawrence, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Interior.-Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Omaha, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Utah and Nevada. In the following table, as well as in Table No. 4, the districts are shown in the above order, but with the group headings omitted in order to save space, which explains the change in the alphabetical order.