The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-06
BUSINESS BREVlTIES.

OUR FOREIGN TRADE.--The pro-
portion which exports Of manufacture
play in the total Of American export
trade went on increasing In March, as
1t has in nearly every month for the
past two ycars. Tho proportion Of
manufacturing exports to total eX-
ports was large In March, 1895, reaching
st0, ,5jG,1 1856 in exports Of s62 S2S,TJ2, or
24.3S per cent. The figures for March.
1896, are $i9l25.1S5 for manufactures
out Of total exports of S7i,Q0i,G52 or
1856 per cent. These figures raised the
total manufacturing exports for the
nine months ending March 81 to $l3..-
4O5,7S4 In 1895 out Of total exports OF
S6l2,9G4,2il, or 2l.60 per cent; but the
manufacturing exports for the corre-
spending nine months Of the fiscal year
1896 have been $lG3. .lS7,926 out Of total
exports Of 1854. .2S6, 900. or 24.57 per cent
The proportion thus far attained in
1896. If continued until the end Of the
fiscal year on June 30, would result In
manufacturing exports OF $2l7, 900, 600
out of total exports Of S5,000,000. This
would represent a total Of manufacture
before attained in the commercial his
tory Of the country. The figures as far
back as 1880 were only S102.856,Ol5, and
constituted 12.4S per cent. of the total
exports. They had risen in 1890 to
$l51, l02,276, or l7.S7 per cent. Of the total
exports. There was a gain of $4,000, =
900 in 1891, followed by a decline to
about $l5S 900, 900 in each Of the years
1892 and 1898, but 1894 and 1895 showed
manufacturing exports slightly in ex-
cess Of $1S3,GC0,0 600, and 1896 seems likely
to show still larger ratio of increase.
Mineral oil constitutes a large element
x,fN tSr- fx.,t ~
tus, fine machinery and other articles
requiring high skill and ingenuity in
! production also play a large part.
coTHAM's MEN OF WEALTH
There are more millionaires In New
York and Brooklyn than in all the rest
Of the country. The metropolis boasts
forty-eight persons, each of whom Is
worth over sl0,Q00,000. She also has
nine citizens who are worth over s5O,-
100000. besides two estates each of that
value. There are. however, only two
residents who are worth over 500, 600,
900. according to popular report. These
are John d. Rockefeller and William
| Waldorf Astor. There are several who
come very close to the 800. O.0cO. 900 mark,
If they do not quite reach 1t. Among
these are Russell Sage, Cornelius Van
| derhilt. William Rockerfeller, William
L. Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor.
Poor Hetty Green turns the scale al
S40,0OO,0O0, and the plain. every day
gentlemen wLo are worth anywhere be-
tween a million and million and a
half number In New York and Brook
lyn over a thousand by actual count
and but very few Of them are known
by name to the general public.
COKE FIGURES.-The Pennsylva.
mia railroad reports that the quantity
Of coal and coke originating on and
carried over its lines east Of Plttsburs
and Eier for the year thus far has been
6.6GG.49O tons. compared with 7,l51,15
! tons In the corresponding period Of 1895
a decrease Of 524,G65 tons, of which g..
129.169 tons were coal, q decrease oil
149,4 ons. and 1,497, 1881 tons coke, q de.
crease Of 375,207 tons.
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RAILROAD STATISTICS.-.It Is es.
tlmated that the railroads OF this coun.
try consume S0.000.000 ties for renewal.
annually. OF this aggregate about a..
100000 are Of oak. 1860. 900 pine, $500.
600 chestnut, 100000 cedar, $500 0Ot