Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-05-07

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Articles. Increase.
Beans and peas, busheis-------------- 2o6 993
Barley, bushels-------------------- l,l90.O93
Cement, pounds ds-----------------------1 190l6,Sg9
Coal, bituminous. tons-------------- 1850
Cotton, bleaehed, square yards 10l2s. .9sl
Co ton thread, pOunds---------------- 722, ,sg5
Cheese, pounds--------------------- 1924
Eggs. dozen-------------------- s27.9gi
Glass, polished, unslIvered, square
feet----------------------------------- 1888
Glass, polished. silvered, square feet 933, l56
Glass, plate, cast, polished, unsil-
vered, square efeet--------------------l l,023y5l4
Hay, ons------------------------- 57,s45
Hops, pounds-------------------- 2,l5l,g3
Iron ore, tons----------------------- 1879
iron, bar, pounds--------------------- 7F6O,S72
Iron, ignots, bars and rods Of steel,
pounds S,428O53
Iron and steel plates, pOunds-------- 256l,762
Lead, pigs, bars. pounds--------------S6 S6,6 $50
Lnseed, bushels-------------------- 2,269, ,l03
Malt, barley, busbel 1905
oats, bushels------------------ 225,S4
Olive oil, gallons SS.S82
Raisins. pounds--------------------- $685. 100
Rice and products, pounds----------- 43 20 ,37S
Salt, pounds --------------------------9 9344g734
Sal Soda Dounds------------------- 92S,995
soda ash, pounds Is 225,SIs
Soda caustic. pounds 9,12l, ,922
Soap, toilet, ponnds------------------- l05,7lS
spices, pounds 1905
Spirits, distilled, gallons l3S,0s9
sugar, pounds, ,5eO 45O
sumac, ground, ounds-------------- 4,l99, ,9O8
Tin plate, $3.50, IS9
Tobacco, leaf. pounds----------------- 4,227, ,457
Tobacco. manufactured, pounds 26,225
Wine in bulk, gsllons---------------- 16O.309
Wool, 81 ,569, ,928
Wool carpets. square yards---------- 1851
Wool clolhs, 6,9o2,2S
wool dress goods, square yards 3,74l, ,49O
Zinc, blocks or pigs------------------- 338,772
These figures should appeal to our
industrial workers in every branch of
trade, to the workers in our mines and
to the producers Of our agricultural
supplies. In the column given above
will be found the larger quantities
that we have bought from foreign
since the new tariff went into
effect, and of sugar only have we pur-
chased less than in the corresponding
period year earlier. We bought more
beans, peas and barley grown by for.
eign farmers, more coal and cement,
more bleached and thread cotton the
output Of foreign factories, more cheese
and eggs from foreign dairies, more
glass, more hay, more hops, more iron
and steel more linseed, more oats, more
olive oil, more raisins, more rice and its
products, more salt, more chemicals,
more tin plate, more leaf tobacco, more
wool, more carpets, more wooden
goods, more zinc.
There has not been that marked im-
provement In the business of the
country which will warrant these
larger importations. The earning
capacity Of our workers and producers
has not been increased to such an ex-
tent as to purchase our own entire out.
put of these supplies, let alone these
heavy foreign importations. These
goods have not all passed into con.
although considerable guam
Titles have taken the place Of our own |
American goods. Where that has
been the case the supplies Of home pro.
iucts remain uusold, The accumula-
Ion OF home products, toge ther with
The increasing accumulation OF foreign
products, Is sign by no means en-
10 those who earn their liv-
ng, whether above or below ground. -
meriQan Eeononfat