The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-27
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AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

The ComperciSl Relations Between the
united states and the Australian Colo
MES.
some interesting statistics have been
compiled with regard to the growing
trade between Australia and the United
States. In the year 1883 the United
States exported to Australia $780,, COO
worth of agricultural implements, $225.-
UOO carriages and carts, $2I2,OO0 druos
and medicines, 81 ,203,000 iron manufitc-
lures, $2l2,OOO steel manufactures, SILL
0W leather and manufactures of leather.
$ooo,UU Kerosene, $4,000 fish, $4,000
sewing machines, S706,000 tobacco,
NZzf,OUO lumber $229,OOO household ltlrni-
lure ana S23l,OU0 manufactures of
wood. The total export amounted
to $6,73O,OOO, which is an insignificant
sum compared with the total value of
British exports to Australia, amounting
last year to sol 100000. Although Eng
land IS nearer to Australia than Amer
lca, the latter yet hopes to do q large
trade with our distant colonies, as there
are many articles which could be prOs
uuceu and sent out at greater adVan-
lage. The Australian export to the
United States is at present very little,
amounting only to S2,0Ss 900 in the az
gregate for 1883. Some fears have re-
Gently been expressed with reference TO
wool-grOwing in Australia, the staple in
dustry, but the Federal Australian does
not share in the evil forebodings. AT
the same time, it urges the desira-
bility of seeking new outlets for Aus
tralian woods i'll countries like China
and Japan and some of the European
con Il. ~
marked the journal in question, "not
because we labored under the iaun-
diced impression that the English mar
ket was likely to be gluttod with Ameri
can woods this year or next, and that the
price of the Australian staple would
iall y per cent. i'll consequence, or that
our ideas of the present and following
seasons clip were so buoyant as to lead
us to believe that the immense surplus
age would create panic in prices in the
London market, but simply because we
see that as the development of Western
Australia, the northern territory, and
Queensland proceeds-and it has
been going on rather rapidly of late-a
large increase in the staple may be reck-
oned upon" In 1872, l22,256,499 pounds
of wool was imported into America. In
1857 the quality imported was 55,964, g}6
f'N,, Nhilu VIC population nAu ILL.,
creased from IS, 50O000 to 50,OO0,OOO. This
great falling of in imported wool would
appear alarming and perplexing were it
not for the fact that in 1870 the amount
ofthe domestic-grown wool in the United
States was only loo, l02,3s7 pounds, while
in 1880 il had increased TO upward of
2OO,OO,O0O pounds. Australia does not
fear this increase, as the quality
of wool grown in the States can
not compete with that grown in the
colonies. Owing to the nature of the
soil in many of the American States il
would not pay the farmers to turn their
attention TO wool growing instead of
the cultivation of cereals. And, as n
matter of fact, great as has been the in-
crease in wOOl-growing in America il
bears no proportion to the enormous in
crease in the production of other articles.
AS Australia and America are nearly
alike in superficial area, and rs the ter
ritOry of the latter is being rapidly
utilized for cereal and cotton products,
while the more distant continent-or
such portion of it rs is settled-is moth
ing but huge sheepwalk, there is no
dangertor some time to come of Australia
losing hor supremacy in wool-growing.-
London Times.