The passenger travel as shown in the statement of arrivals and departures indicates an increase in arrivals of 3,463 passengers over 1922. While the departures continue in excess of arrivals, this is accounted for in large part by the completion of work on the Alaska Railroad and the return to the States of such workmen. Merchandise and gold and silver shipped from Alaska to United States The following table of passenger movement for six years indicates the travel by regularly established routes to and from the district of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The Eagle and Dawson movement shows the local frontier travel, which must not be considered with the general account, as the greater number of these passengers arrived at or departed from Ketchikan or St. Michael and have been accounted for in the figures for those ports. $20, 177, 788 1, 124, 398 39, 147, 817 479, 238 60, 473, 623 60, 929, 241 $7,796, 539 713, 326 | 816, 193 Comparative statement of Alaskan merchandise and domestic gold and silver shipped from Alaska to the United States for 15 years The tables following give the value of merchandise shipped to Alaska from the United States for the year 1923, segregated as to place of consignment with comparative statements for five years, and customs transactions for 17 years. JOHN C. MCBRIDE, Value of merchandise shipped from the United States to first division |