Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-03
IN ROUND NUMBERS.
INTERESTING FIGURES FURNISHED BY
 THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS.
Importations of Coffee and Sagar-silk and Cotton GOods-Finery for Ladies and Lu1urIes for Men
 Woolen GoodA
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 The imports and exports of the fiscal year ending June 30. are quite safisiac- tory when compared with those of the preyious year. The exports of the year have been over S7, 1000, 900 in excess of last year. while the amount of money sent abroad 70 pay for imports has fallen off over ssO. OOO, 0oO, making Q balance of nearly SIOO. 900, 900 in our favor as com pared with the work of the nscaI year iSS4 The exports. which in 1884 were s67s. OOO, 900, amount this year 10 goo GOO OOO fin round numbers The imports which in 1884 were s630. OOO. coo. in round numbers. amount in the past year to only Sj33. 900 GOO. Thus the exports. which last year were only S57, ,0OO. 900 more than the imports. are this year SIP. .OOO. OOO greater than the imports.
 It is interesting 10 run over the list of imports and exports as furnished by the bureau of tatistics and see what We buy and what we sell For instance, the i'm portations of coffee in the year just past amount to 522. 900. 00O pounds. or an aver age of ten pounds per head all around In the preceding year the importations or coffee were but 49O. GOO. 900 pounds Our coffee. however, has not cost us as much per pound this year as last, for although we imported 90. 0OO. 900 pounds more We paid $3 900, 900 less for it. our coffee bill in the year just passed being $45, OOO. OOo in round numbers or less than Sl each for the total population
 The importations of sugar in the year just past amount to ?, 400. OOO. 900 pounds. or a little over forty pounds per head for every man, woman and child in the coun- try. The importations of sugar have been in pounds about the same as last year; possibly little less. The cost, however, has been very much less. In the fiscal year 1884 the value of the sugar i'm ported was over $9O, 900. 900. while this year 1t has only amounted to about s63. OOO. 900. Sugar Is cheap the world over this year. The German and French gov ernments have given large sums for the benefit of sugar production in their re- spective countries. and the people of the nited States have, unconsciously in most cases, been consuming large quanti- ties of beet sugar imported from France and Germany, while the low prices in Europe have compelled the sugar.pro- ducers of Cuba to accept low prices for their sweets. Sugar and coffee form by far the largest and most important arti- cles of import
 The next importantin cost among theim- ports is silk. The importatiOns in silk in the year just ended amount in round numbers to nearly S35. 0O0. 900. which, by the way. is S4, 00O, 900 or $5, ,0OO, 600 less than the silk imported in the preceding year. Next in value to the impOrtations of silk come those of flax. hemp. jute. and similar materials. which amount to $2j. 900. 900 a year in round numbers Cotton goods come next amounting to oveS $2O. 00O. 900. Curious. isn't 1t. that this country. the great cotton-feld of the world, with its wonderful facilities for manufacturing. should send over $20.- OU0 600 abroad for manufactures of cotton?
 Those ostrich farms in California must have been extremely busy in the past year. at least the importatiOns of ostrich feathers, which in the fiscal year 1884 were S., JOO, OO0, were in the year just ended less than $2. QUO. 900. The dear la- dies have been busy. however. if not with feathers with something else, for the i'm pOrtatiOus of their hats and bOnnets in the past year amount tO S4. 300. 900. against about S3. 500 600 in the preceding year. There is not much opportunity for the horrid men. however 10 make re- marks on this subject. for their imported tobacco cost them double what the ladies hats cost. or in round numbers $9. 0OO. O00 The wearers of dis- mOnds seem to have taken a sudden spasm of economy. for in the year just ended their importations of diamonds have been only s5. O0O OOO. against S9. OOO.- 900 in the preceding year
 The cost of ladies hats given above does not make up the total. however. of expenditures in this line, for their dress goods in wool and alpaca alone amount to SIS. .0OO. GOO while the cloths. mostly for gentlemen Co wear, amount to over S9. OOO. 900 Indeed. the total importa tions of wOOls and wooden goods exceed in value those of silk or cotton. the total of all grades of wool and woolen goods being nearly $40, 900, ,0O0