The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-31
rOREIGN COMMEnCE

From 1868 to 1873 the value OF imports
exceeded the value Of exports to an extent
ranging from S30,37l,3GS in 1863, to $780,
4l7,4O1 in 1872, but from the latter date
tho tide has changed SO that the balance
Of trade is largely in our favor.
The total value Of foreign commerce for
the year ending June 80, 1881, amounted
TO 81 ,G75,024,3lS. II includes tho exports
and imports Of merchandise and specie,
and greatly exceeds tho transactions OF any
previous year. In looking over the re-
ports there is much that is interesting to be
found It the details
The excess Of the value Of exports over
the volue OF imports OF merchandise dur
ing the last fiscal year amounts to $780,
7l2,71s.
The excess Of imports OF specie during
the last fiscal year exceeds the exports to
the amount Of sol ,lGS,G5O.
Our total exports OF merchandise dur.
the last fiscal year amounted to 1888 025,-
0E, exceeding the value Of such exports
during the preceding year to the amount
OF $9,97O,5 0l, and was the largest OF which
we have any record.
OF .breadstuiIs the export value was
1910, 332, sol; OF cotton and manufactures,
$25l ,2G7, 1888; Of provisions $751; ,52S, 2OS;
OF mineral oils, Sl0,3l5,0OD; Of tobacco
SO, S7S, SS4; Of wood and manufactures OF
wood, $iS,GOO,312; Of iron and steel manu-.
features, Sl7G0S, O61 Of live animals, Sl6,.
4l2, 3GS. The total value Of these eight
commodities amounted to sos, o 70, 800, aud
constituted ninety per cent. OF the value
OF the total value Of olir exports.
The augmented value OF our expectation.
which is largely contributed by our Yves
tern and Northwestern States, Is attributed
to the great reduction in the cost Of trans.
portatiOn on the land aud water thorough.
fares, and the extended facilities caused by
the multiplication Of railroads.
This fact Is illustrated by tho increase in
the exports Of agricultural products, which
amounted during the fiscal year to $780,.
O500lG, exceeding the value OF the same
exports during the previous fiscal year 10
the amount Of SIS, 86S,O25.
We nlso have the contrast for this class Of
exports for previous years, showing that the
Inst exceeded those Of 1850 by about seven
tines and they were nearly three times
the value Of similar exports for 1850, and
more than twice rs great as tho value Of
such exports during the year 1870.
Our imports during the last fiscal year
amounted TO $0i2,GB4,02s. These imports
included sugar and inolasses, coffee, silk
and manufactures thereof, chemicals, cot.
ton and manufactures, iron and steel, and
manufactures thereof, which amounted Ia
$40, 439,74I
Our commercial transactions with foreign
countries during the last fiscal year are thus
shown
The value Of our exports to Great Brit.
ain and her colonial aud other possessions
amount to SSH, 22l, 94i, and constituted 90
per cent. Of our total exports 10 foreign
Countries The value OF the imports from
Great Britain and her colonial and other
possessions amounted to S2l8, 1923,
showing a large balance In our favor,
Our total exports 10 France amounted to
$9l, 1917 sol, and the value Of imports 10
$50, 1915.
We exported to Germany merchandise