The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-05
AMERICAS BIG TRADE.
GREATEST IN THE HISTORY OF
THE COUNTRY.

Cotton Leads the List OF Exports by Many
Mfiiions-Provfs'ons Follow Second and
Breadstuffs Come Third - Total Com
MERGE Reaches the Enormous Figure OF
Il, T20, 33O,S0
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. IL
gives also u comparison OF the imports
and exports during the past nine months,
as compared with the correspond ng
nine months of the preceding year
The statement says that the total val
ue OF the commerce of the past fiscal
year was the greatest in the history If
the Government. and exceeded the total
value of the commerce Of 1890 by the
sum Of $50, 10l, 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, OG3.
Our total commerce during the past fis-
cal year amounted TO Sl,729, $50, SEQ
During the year there was an increase
of our imports of merchandise, in order
of magnitude, in the following articles:
Coffee, tin plates, 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 iute and manufact-
ures thereof, breadstuffs, and animals.
The total value Of imports of mer-
chandise during the last year was SSi4,-
005, 40l. The total value of our exports
al no SnH
was 1854, 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, 941, 737. The increase in the eX-
ports has been In the following articles,
stated in order of magnitude Of increase:
Raw cotton, provisions, refined sugar,
cotton manufactures, copper and manu-
features thereof, and iron and stool and
manufactures thereof.
The value of the leading articles of
exports from tho United States during
the past year was as follows: Cotton,
$500, 70s, 1913; breadstufis, Sl27, 66S, O92;
provisions, S13s, 176, 63S.
Since Oct 6, 1890, to June 30. 1891,
inclusive, the total imports of merchan-
disc were S630, 900, OO5, as compared
with S59s, 769, 9O5, the value OF such i'm
ports for the corresponding period Of
1890, which shows an excess for tho
nine months of 1891 of S3l, 43G, 100.
The exports Of gold and silver durin z
the last fiscal year were S10s. 72q, 2ss;
and the imports were 36,212, 334, an
excess of exports of 1853, 954. The
exports Of gold during the last fiscal
year were $50, 1868, 622. The imports Of
gold were S1s,246,5l2, showing an ex-
cess of exports Of gold OF SOS, III, 40,
the largest excess of exports of god in
any year of our commerce.
There has been large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year. The
total number arriving was $50, 456, as
against 451,2 during the fiscal year
1890, showing an increase during the
last fiscal year of 1O4. PIT. This increase
is largely from the following countries:
Italy, 80, 1854; Austria II ungary, II, sol:
Germany, 21,112; Russia Including Po-
landl, %, PAS.