The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
AMERICAS BIG TRADE.
GREATEST IN THE HISTORY OF
THE COUNTRY.

Cotton Leads the List of Exports by Many
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Follow Second and
Breadstuffs Come Third - Total Conn
merce Reaches the Enormous Figure OF
Il, S29, 33O,S96.
The Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury
Department has issued a summary and
review of the foreign commerce and i'm
migration of the United States during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1891 1t
gives also a comparison of the imports.
and exports during the past nine months,
as compared with the corresponding
nine months of the preceding year.
The statement says that the total val
ne of the commerce of the past fiscal
year was the greatest in the history of
the Government. and exceeded the total
value of the commerce of 1890 by the
sum of $50, 191, 500. The commerce of
1890 was the largest for any year in
the history of the Government up to
that time, exceeding the commerce of
the prior year by the sum of $3.50, COG, 063.
Our total commerce during the past fiS-
cal year amounted to $1,729, $50, 500.
During the year there was an increase
OF our imports of merchandise, in order
OF magnitude, in the following articles:
Coffee, tin p ateS, hides and skins, fruits,
chemicals and drugs, india rubber and
gutta percha, sugar and mOlaSSes,
etc. There has been decline in the
value of our imports of wool and manu-
features thereof, silk and manufactures
thereof, hemp and lutte and manufact-
ures thereof breadStuffs, and animals.
The total value of imports of mer-
chandise during the last year was $S44.-
905, 491. The total value of our exports.
of merchandise during the same period
was 1884, 425, 405, which shows an excess
in favor of exports, during the fiscal
year. Of $40, $40, 914. There was also an
excess of exports of domestic merchan-
disc over such exports of the prior year
of S26, GAL, 1877. The increase in the eX-
ports has been in tho following articles,
stated in order of magnitude Of increase:
Raw cotton, provisions, refined sugar,
cotton manufactures, copper and manu-
features thereof. and iron and steel and
manufactures thereof.
The value Of the leading articles Of
exports from the United States during
the past year was as follows: Cotton,
1890, 7OS, 89S; breadstufs, $127,66 092;
provisions, $136, 176, 63S.
Since Oct g. 1890, to June 80, 1891,
inclusive, the total imports of merchan-
disc we're $500, 200, OO5, as compared
with 1898, 769, 9O5, the value of such i'm
ports for the corresponding period of
1890, which shows an excess for the
nine months of 1891 Of $31, 1876, 100.
The exports of gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were Sos 729, 28S;
and the imports were $50, 212, 1874, an
excess of exports of $72, SIG, 954. The
exports of gold during the last fiscal
year were $50, 1853, 622. The imports of
gold we're $18, 246, 512, showing an ex-
cess of exports of gold of $6s, III, 40,
the largest excess of exports of go d in
any year of our commerce.
There has been a large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year. The
total number irving was $685. 456, as
against 1929 during the fiscal year
1890, showing an increase during the
last fiscal year of 1O4, 277. This increase
is largely from the following countries:
Italy, %, 354; Austria Hungary, IA, 861;
Germany, 81, 112; Russia Including Po-
land), 2S,245.