Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07
AMERICAS BIG TRADE.
GREATEST IN THE HISTORY OF
THE COUNTRY.

Cotton Leads the List of Exports by MANY
ADMINISTRATIONS Follow Second and
Hreadstuffs Come Third - Total Conn
,n.rc. Reaches the Enormous Figure OF
-1,729,33O, 1896.
The Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury
Department has issued summary and
review of the foreign commerce and I'M
migration of the United States during
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1881. III
gives also comparison OF the imports
and ports during the past nine months,
as compared with the correspond ng
nine months of the preceding year
The statement says that the total val
ne of the commerce of the past fiscal
wear was the greatest in the history t
the Government, and exceeded the total
value of the commerce of 1890 by the
sum of sS2.l9l, 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 81, 720, $50, $50.
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 moiasses,
etc. There has been decline in the
value of our imports of wool and manu-
features thereof, silk and manufactures
thereof, hemp and lute and manufact-
ures thereof, brcadstuffs, and an mails.
The total value of imports OF mer-
chandise during the last year was SS44.-
905, i91. The total value of our exports
of merchandise during the same period
was 1854, 425, 4O5, which shows an excess
in favor of exp rts, during the fiscal
year, of S39,519.9l4. There was also an
excess of exports of domestic mcrchan-
disc over such exports of the prior year
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 steel and
manufactures thereof.
The value of the leading articles of
exports from the United States during
the past year was as follows: Cotton,
$500, 7Os, S9S; breadstutis, S127, Cos, O92;
provisions, s13s, 1868.
Since Oct. 6, 1890, to June 30. 1891,
inclusive, the total imports of mcrchan-
disc were S650,20f, OO5, as compared
with sos, 100, 9o5 the value of such i'm
ports for the corresponding period of
1850, which shows an excess for the
nine months of 1891 of $3l, 436, 100.
The exports of gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were $10s, 729,2ss;
and the imports were $36,212, 1874, an
excess of exports of S72,516,954. The
exports of gold during the last fiscal
year were $50, 1863, 622. The imports of
gold were $1s,246,51e, showing an en-
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 Il large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year The
total number arr wing was 555, 456, as
against 451,219 during the fiscal yea,
1880, showing an increase during the
last fiscal year of 1o4,277. This increase
is largely from the following countries
Italy, 23,354; Austria Hungary, 1861
Germany. 81. liz; Russia Qncluding Pc
land), 2s,245.