Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-14
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Interesting Summary of Our Foreig
Commerce-WhatW We Sell and What w

| Interesting Summary of Our Foreign
Commerce-What We Sell and What We
/ Buy.
WASHINGTON Aug 9-The summary state.
| ment of the imports and exports of the
| United States for the month ending june
| and the twelve months ending the same
| date has just been issued by the Bureau OF
| Statistics. The chief of the bureau, S q.
| Brock has furn ished the following conipre-
| hensive figures and facts concerning our
| foreign commerce that will prove of inter-
| est to the public, more especially as
| the summary of the last fiscal years
| commerce shows a large increase. Our
| tota! imports If merchandise amounted
to $3.50 222.22S, or Ai.0)5,0U re ter than for
the fiscal year ending June o. i'aj, an $1li,.
| 347S2S greater tn IN tLc tvart a. p tss
five years OF these imports :, iNS 80 cana
in free of duty, and $'l3 63 - y ~. Iatiabie-
Again a little over S4l,0)0,0 )J 81 IL OF I'll
| merchandise came in ears; 80 6.J7f came
in Am 'rican steam and sailing vessels and
| Sj23,676.l3i was brought to our p 'rss in for
elgi steam and sailing vessels OF til is
| large amount of imports it will be interest
| ing to know what are the leading articles
| imported and used by our people. First
among the free articles coffee to the
amount of 1913. 157, iS2; chemicals, drugs
and dyes, $26sl4,a9o; manufactured
! silk, $24351 $50; hides and SKINS ST.
| IS: ,055; household and personal ef-
| fects, &1i,e5I,512; sugar and mo-
! lasses, from the Hawaiian Islands, SILL
| 5o9.l i2. fruits and nuts. Sc $751;, go; gold and
silver bearing ores 57,Si0, PSI tea. S12 BIZ, 4&S;
| tin blocks, S6,SyS,9O On the dutiaole list
| the prominent articles of import were first
| sugar and nlolasses. $50, 737.254; manufact-
| ures of wool, hair, ETC., o6.5S 1l2; IRON and
| steel goods, 4l.673,2i1; silk clothing, dress
| and piece goods, S5S,6S6,374; cotton goods,
s29,9lS.0J5; Of this last item sIl, 4i7 go con-
| sisted of cmbro ideries, iaceS, etc. manu-
| features of hemp, fl and jute, SIS, AL 10;
tobacco, 1885 ,563; woods, SIS, 264 093 fruits
and nuts, S15,S76 81; precious stones and im-
itations. $2 rs 1872; wines. SS,S59972; chemic-
ais ANA drugs, $l4,7S7,6SS; breadstuffs, So
OBJ 2'2; vegetables, a.. 455, 354; etc.
Perhaps more interet ting st1l is the state
ment of what is exported from the United
States. The exports last year reached the
handsome figures of $5i1,293,SlS. and ex-
c"eded the prior year $202 ,s92, 453, or $l45,.
350,S36 greater than the average of the pre-
viouS five years.
Our exports exceeded imports last
year to the amount of SIS, 60!.6G6 This is a
much better showing than for the fiscal year
ending June 81, 1885, when the volume of
tSade was the other way to the amount of
$2.130.2T1, and in 1888 the imports exceeded
our exports $2S. ,697, and consequently
| that large balance against US. TIL. excess
of our exports over TIL. imports would have
really been much greater for the year were
it not that the importers of foreign goods in
apprehension of the passage of the Tariff
bin have been rushing their goods into our
poILS III unusual QUANTITIES. In the month OF
june alone the imports were SI5.3iS,719 and
an excess over exports of S12,24l.279. The
leading articles of export during the past
fiscal year were in values as follows:
Cotton NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $3.50 96s, 1872
breads tuffs.. .....-.-....---.-..... l54923,1i
prOVS ions. NATURALIZATION. l36, 264 ,506
Animals cattle, hogs, horses, etc. 1858, l2S
Lumber and man ufactures Of. 2S 255, 745
Iron and steel aud manufactures
nIar ,,;, - 20 ,s
Leather and manufactures of -.... 12,4 S,s47
Clothes and wearing apparel..... 9,9J9,ZU
This large volume of exports. amounting
as stated to $Si5, -93s2S, was carried out OF
our country-in cars and other land We
hcles, $50 81, 1872; in American steam and
sailing vessels, SIS, 372o2; in foreign steam
and sailing vessels S739,59i, 424
In answer to the inquiry, where do the ex.
potts Of the United States go principally,
and what do other coun tries severity buy OF
US? many interesting features appear. For
instance. sell s. 1853, 1874 worth of agri-
cultural implements. The Argentine Re-
public bought nearly double the amount
purchased by any other country. Her pur-
chase was sI,o6j,44j. Australasia next
$54s, 347 OF animals Great Britain and Ire
land took $29, 167 i6l out of a total export OF
$3l,2G1,1 3l OF breads tufts Great Britain and
Ireland purchased $22153,737. Germany
came next, $4,S2l,99l; France, $3,5.6,520. OF
wheat and wheat four Great Britain and
SIS; other countries of Europe, $9.4S7 7S2;
the West Indies, IS. 469, a14; Brazil S3,s04.990,
other countries in South America, Si,7l7,l 1877.
OF cotton. Grea Britain and Ireland, SI4S,-
297,171; Germany, 81, 623, 227; France, $4,-
35i sos; other countries of Europe, 1923 s..
SIS. We sell to Great Britain and Ireland
$2.G2s,l2l worth of steam engines and ma
chinery, and S1,02S A. lrSvorth of sewing ma
chines-much more of each than any other
country. The next largest purchaser Of
such machinery is the West Indies.
We sell to Great Britain and Ireland S.
7I7,i3l worth of leather, and the next high
est purchaser is GERMANY, to the amount OF
Sz9i.549
In provisions, consisting of cattle and hog
products, Great Britain and Ireland heads
the list al S76,O99,2SS, and Germany comes
next, at S9,O74, 100
Or tobacco, Great Brit ain and ireland take
$40 SPA; Germany S4,643,993 France, ST..
477.974; British North America, 81 iii, So.
Our lumber goes to Great Britain and
Ireland, $2.2s02s3 West Indies, $1,337.74s;
Argentine Republic, ST ,225 $50; other coun-
tries In South America, I,2ls,S87.
Our total foreign trade last yeat, imports
ami exports, was the largest of any year in
the history of the Government, aggregating
81 ,5s7 sos. 203
The year having the largest aggregate
prior to that of 1888, when the foreign trade
amounted to $1,5i7, o2o-an excess in favor OF
last year by the sum of $40, Gas 97.
The total exports of gold and silver coin
and bullion last year was $50, 14s,420. OF this
So, 29I ,911 was silver bullion
The imports of gold and silver amounted
to So, 976, 1885, of which $7,Os5 6s4 was silver
bullion.
In the fiscal year 1899 there arrived in tho
United Safes 451,219 immigrants, as. COM
pared with 43s,6l9 for the prior year.
OF these 56,17S came from Austria, Hun
gary and Bohemia, 81, 400 from Germany,
1892 from England and Wales, 52,923 from
Ireland; from Scotland, 12,02s; From Italy,
51,78O from Sweden and Norway, 1895
from Russia, is, 574; from Poland. HOB; from
Denmark, 9;342 ana from France, 6oSi.- The
balance from other countries.