Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-06-03
What Our Exports Amount To.

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dar year ending January 1, 1875. As
this return shows the figures of our
imports and exports to a period six
months later than the recently pub
Iished volume of Commerce and Nav
igatiOn, which terminated with the fis-
cal year June 80, 1874, it furnishes us
with much more satisfactory exhibit
of the actual condition of our trade
with foreign countries. It shows that
while of some articles of production
our exports are decreasing, there are
others, and those chiefly cereal pro-
duction, of which the demand for for
eign export has largely increased.
In the single item of breadstuffs,
for example, these returns show that
the United States exported in the cal
ender year 1874 Indian corn to the
aggregate value of S26, ,964,OI3,
against only $18,4S7, ,7O6 in the year
1873, being an increase of nearly fifty
per cent.
Our exports of wheat are still more
enormous, having aggregated in 1874
$S2,759,131, as against ST., ,873, ,484 in
the preceding year. OF -four we ex-
ported $4,000, 900 worth in 1874, and
only S23, 100000 worth in 1873. The
aggregate products of our soil in the
shape of breadstuffs demanded by for
eign countries in the last year foot up
the heavy amount of over $14I, ,000.-
600, thus pretty nearly approximating
to the value of the American cotton
crop, which has always Except during
the blockade years of the wary been
much the heaviest item in our exports
abroad.
There WAS slight falling off in the
export Of raw cotton in the year 1874.
The aggregate value was $2I3, $50, POT,
while in 1873 we exported cotton to
the value of 'S219,383, 3,114
Next in the scale of Importance to
cotton and breadstuffs stands petrOle-
um. This product, in the shape of IL
Eliminating oils, was exported in 1874
to the aggregate value of nearly $685.,
100000, exhibiting a falling off of
100000 as compared with the
year 1873, when we exported of pc
troleum in its various forms the enor-
nous amount of S45, 100000, in round
numbers.
| Closely following the value OF our
export of Illuminating oils stands the
item of bacon and hams, of which for
eign countries consumed in 1874 $751;
258, ,203 worth. Here, again, there was
large falling offas compared with pre-
ceding years, in which we exported
bacon and hams to the aggregate val
of S4O,139,241.
Next after this solid article Of food
comes leaf tobacco; of which Ameri
: can product we sent abroad in 1874
ST, ,237, ,920 worth, against $3l, $3.50, 1854
in the year 1878.
Lard comes next, furnishing export
ed values to the amount of SIS, ,842,-
7S1 in 1874, as compared with S2l.
Isl, ,101 in the year preceding.
: The reader may be surprised to
learn that foreign countries consumed
= over Sl3, 100000 worth of American
! ! cheese in the year 1874, while in 1875
the exports of cheese rose only tc
/ $11, ,91l, ,511.
OF other American products we ex
ported pork to the amount of ST, ,404.
189; tallow, S6,800,877; hides ant
: skins, $4,0o3, ,472; furs, SO. 3.O12, ,733
: drugs and chemicals, So, ,256, DOL Goa
S3.259, ,464: resin and turpentine, 50.
887,43O; oil cake, S4,661 ,O66; bee
So, ,635, ,266; butter, $1,467 ,066; fish
! 2,434, ,86I; boards, joigts, etc. 81,
1 1902; shocks and slaves, S6,044.
054 timber $4,196,815.
These raw materials and their crude
{ products form the bulk of American
; exports, and in comparison with them
the total product of American manu-
) features finding a market abroad is in
sufficient, indeed. Here are a few
more conspicuous items: Agricultural
3 implements, $3,148, ,593; sewing ma
chimes, $1,770,951; sailing vessels
l 1896, ,233; household furniture, 81,
836,919; steam engines, $1,145, ,669
, machinery, $4, ,153, ,258; stoves; $I4I,
1 953; other manufactures of iron, So,
4 279, ,7O4; arms, S3,613, ,430; edged
tools, $875,528 boots and shoes
$448, ,I38 leather of all kinds, S4,975,
475, pianos, $256.673; organs anC
: melOdeons, S342, ,019; cartridges anG
$ fuses, $249, ,552 paper and stationery
$762,740; perfumery, S3O8, ,585 print
s ing presses and type, 1928, SAT books
$589, 1928; clocks, 1,061 ,095; fancy ar
/ ticles Dot otherwise specified, 34S, ,0O4
r hats, Soaps and hornets. 240, ,141; ca
r bles and cordage, 186,504; cottol
Il manufactures, $500, ,797, and manufsc
lures of wool, S135, ,767.
0 The last item exhibits in a strOn|
8 light the true insignifcance of Amer
u lean manufactures. OF all the vast ex
tent of articles for clothing and house
II hold use manufactured from wool, tn
e United States, with it's immense WOO
l, crop and teaming population of 40,
Il 900, 900, exports in the whole yea
q only $4,000 dollars worth-bardl,
enough to furnish hotel of the frs
u class with carpets, to say nothing o
bedding.
'e If we take the total of our domesti
e exports for the whole year of 1874
l. which amounted to the gross sum Q
e $50, ,4O5, ,973, or deducting the export
le of gold and silver, which were aboU
u sixtv-six millions of dollars, to GA
IS 100000, what portion does the reade
Te think consisted of American manufaC
IS lures? Less than .forty:foNr metlEiOn
y of dollars! The balance, or $40, ,OO(
n 900, consisted either of natural pre-
<. ducts Of the soil, or of such produci
Ia in their cruGcst modified form.
a While we have great reason to
Sc proud of the almost hOundleSs produ'
It, tiveness of our country in the gre;
OF staples of food, cotton and petroleum
n we must confess that this exhibit I
as our foreign exports for the past ye.
IN throws anything but cheerful ligl
lit upon the condition of American maj
ty ufactures. The truth is We have thro
Ii tied our domestic industry by the vel
ry means we have adopted to stimulate
lrt in the highest degree. We have d
as stroved pretty much all our foreis
ir markets. including those at our vel
SO doors, in the West Indies, in Mexic
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