Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
AMERICAS BIG TRADE.
GREATEST IN THE HicToRY OF
THE COUNTRY.

Cotton Leads the List or Exports by Many
Miilions-Provis ons Follow Second and
Breadstuffs Coms Third = Total Com
merce Reaches the Enormous Figure oi
Il. 720, 3s0,s90.
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.30, 1891. IL
gives also o 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 { I
the Government, and exceeded The total
value of the commerce of 1890 by the
sum of $50, l0l, 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 $159, COG, O63.
Our total commerce during the past fis-
cal year amounted to Sl,720, $50. $3.50.
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 molasses,
etc. There has been a decline In the
value of our imports of wool and manu-
factures thereof, silk and manufactures
thereof, hemp and jute and manufact.
ures thereof, breadstuffs, and animals.
The total value of imports Of mer-
| chandise during the last year was SS44.-
| 9O5, 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 fisca
year, of $39, ,51g,g14. There was also ar
excess of exports of domestic merchan-
disc over such exports of the prior yeal
| OF SIG, 6,941,73 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 steel one
manufactures thereof.
The value OF the leading articles o.
exports from tho United States during
tho o-P~st-yAar- vas-aa- -follows.-Coaton
$500, 7Os, s9s; breadstuf1s, 1927, ,66s, O92
provisions, S13s, 176, ,63s.
Since Oct 6, 1890, to June 30 1891
inclusive, the total imports of merchan
sdise we're $500, 206, 00j, as compared
with S59s, 769, 9O5, the value of such i'm
ports for the corresponding period o
1890, which shows an excess for tn,
nine months of 1891 OF ssl. .436, 100;
The exports OF gold and SILVER uurrnl
the last fiscal year were S1OS, ,729,2 ,2ss
and the imports were $40, ,212, ,334, al
eycess- OF exports Of S72, 954. TIL
4 exports Of gold during the last fisca
J year we're $50, 1868, 622. The imports o
J gold were $1s,246,5l2, showing an ex
cess OF exports of gold of sos, III, 10
J the largest excess OF exports OF go d II
any year OF our commerce.
There has been large increase in tn
volume Of immigration into the Unite
: States during the last fiscal year. Th
| total nnunh har ssi~O -, 100, a
against 451,219 during the fiscal yea
1890, showing an increase during tt
last fiscal year of 104,277. This increas
is largely from the following countrie;
! Italy, 90, 354; Austria. Hungary, 14,s6l
! Germany. 2l, 112; Russia Qncluding PC
land), 20, 245.