Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-10-16
Increase in the Export of American
Manufactures.

Manufactures.
The New York Herald says that ad-
vance sheets giving the government
statistics of the exports of American
manufactured products, furnished to
it's Washington correspondent by the
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, will
afford great encouragement to all clas-
ses of our manufacturers and working
men. The present showing is the
largest ever made in the whole history
of the United States.
During the eight months ending with
the 31st of August last, the exports OF
American manufactures exceeded IN
value the exports for the corresponding
eight months of 1894 by II Is millions
of dollars. At this rate the gain Tor
the whole of the present calendar year
will be more than $4,000, 900, and the
total will be decidedly greater than in
any year of our national existence.
1t is noteworthy that since July the
exports of our manufactures have in,
creased even more rapidly than the
preceding figures indicate. In July,
1894, they amounted to $14,532, 1852, but
in July, 1896, they were 1906, 1872. In
August, 1894, the total of manufactured
exports was $16, 222, 5s4; but in August,
1895 (the last month for which returns
have been received), it rose to 19,O5o,'
924. This result is most cheering and
most remarkable.
At no period in American history
have the exports of our manufactured
products in a single year gone over
$1S3, us, 4S4. This is the high-water
mark of our foreign commerce in the
output of American factories-a mark
which was reached in the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1894. In the fiscal year
that ended with last June the exports
of our manufactures were substanti-
ally the same, aggregating 1888, $50, TAB.
But if the high rate of expectation OF
this class of American products re
ported for August, 1895, continues a
twelvemonth, the annual total would
be 1928, Gil 200.
There is every reason to expect now
a steady increase in the sale of Ameri-
can factory-products in foreign mar
kets. The statistics just furnished by
the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasu-
nv Department show conclusively that
foreigners are buying many articles
manufactured in American mills and
workshops more and more freely. In
1894 the July exports of manufactures
of wool amounted to only $41, 052, and
in August to $50, 1856, but in July and
August last they were respectively
$52,s53 and $76,2S9 - improvements
which may be fairly credited to the
new fiscal law giving manufacturers OF
woollens "free WOOL" In July last our
exports of chemicals, drugs, dyes and
medicines exceeded by $1S2.355 those
of July, 1894, and the exports of Au-
gust last exceeded those of August,
1894, by $35, 7O2. Our exports of leather
and manufactures of leather in July,
1894, were 81 $3.50, 1923, but in July, 1895,
they were 1851 1888; in August, 1894,
they were $1,529, 403, but in August,
1895. the amount rose to So, 622, 1881. The
celebrity with which our exports of iron
and steel and manufactures of iron and
steel have been of late increasing may
be seen from the following table,
July, 1894. July, 1895.
c+aa
features of exported. $2,0sS,464 $2,6,0,72l
Aug, 1894 Aug. 1895.
factures of exported ted -. So, 75s Oa9 $34lO6a5
In single month august last) the
exports of American machinery and
engines were $2,765, $40, against an ex-
port in August, 1894, of only 81, 205, 500
The latest statistics of the Treasury
Department also show that in the
eight months ending August 81 last the
increases of exports over those of the
corresponding months of 1894 were as
follows In agricultural implements,
1857, 189; in chemicals and drugs, $685.
S29; in flax and hemp manufactures,
$117, 456; in machinery, S1,1S6,3S9; in
locomotives, $749,0S3, and in refined
mineral oils, $7,997,5s2.
These are exceedingly encouraging
facts for every branch of American me-
chanical industry. They show that
foreign markets can be found for the
products of our looms and workshops
A new era has evidently dawned upon
American mon11fa of11ras apd tbie oop
not be gainsaid when the official stats
tics show las they now do an unpre
cedented volume in the exports of our
homemade goods.
Every effort should now be made by
American manufacturers to sell their
products abroad. There can be no
duty more patriotic, because if they
can find foreign markets for their
fabrics the mills and factories will pros
per and labor will be abundantly and
steadily rewarded. The manufacturers
of other nations, with resources in
ferior to ours, are capturing foreign
markets by their enterprise and pa
thence. Why cannot our manufactur-
ers initiate their example and share in
the golden harvests which they are
reaping2 Let American capital and
labor awake to the great opportunities
now presented for extending our
foreign commerce.
Couture" Butter.