Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-12

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The March importations of wool in 1891
We're So ,OS5.339 pounds, against 17,7S1,-
SAT pounds in March, 1896, and against
only 3,4SS.415 pounds in the last March
of this Mckinley law. The importation
of rags, noils. etc, in March, 1897. was
:, 466, 461 pounds. against 1904 pounds in
the last March of the Mckinley law.
These quantities of free wool and shoddy
now in stock here not particularly
cheering to the growers of good American
wool, for it will be some months before
they can be absorbed by the country and
a place made for the home product. The
number of cattle imported in March, 1897,
under the Wilson law was $500, while
in March, 1894, under the Mckinley law
the number imported was 81. The num-
Der of pounds of hides imported in March,
1897, in view of the prospective duty on
hides, was two and half times as much
in March of the last year of the Nc
Kinley law, amounting to nearly three
million dollars in value. The hay import
ed in March, 1895, 1896 and 1897, under
the Wilson law was over 10000 tons,
averaging about three times as much as
was imported in the last March of the
Mckinley law. The world, according to
this official report, is being raked over to
find wool to be brought to this country
before the new tariff law goes into effect.
The importations of wool during March,
1897, came from Austria Hungary, Bel
GUM, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, Roumania, Baltic Russia.
Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, Nova
Scotia, the Black Sea ports, Dutch West
Indies, Argentine, Brazil, Chill, Peru,
Uruguay Venezuela, China, British East
| Indies. Asiatic Russia, Turkey in Asia,
| British Australia, British Africa, Egypt.
| This is pretty fair showing.
Among other things this summary pre-
| sents a table of especial interest to agri-
| culturists. 1t shows the monthly average
| prices of the principal articles of merchan-
| disc imported and exported during the
| past year Extracts from the table are
given below, the exports representing
| their market value at the date of eXpor-
| tation, while the imported articles repre-
sent their values in foreign markets. This
| latter fact should be born in mind con-
| stantly in examining the comparative fig
| ures the prices of imported articles ap-
| pear low, until IL is remembered CnaC the
| values given relate to the prices in foreign
| markets, and do not include the amounts
added, for freight, tariff, handling and
| dealers profits, before they reach the
consumer in this country.
Comparative Tables.
| Table showing average values of COM
modities of farm export in April, 1896,
April: 1896. April, 1897.
What flour. per Dbl: $50 s 81
Fiefied pork, per Id: :5:$ ssnts y ssnss
Geaf Rss cents cents cents
Table showing average prices In for
eign markets of commodities which farm
ers consume, in April, 1896, and March,
| 1897:
o. ARsll. 1896 A dsats. 1897.
G cotton cloth. per I'd. 81 So
| Picked herrings. Id. 80 20
Mackerel. per b. F.
Dress goods, per I'd so7 rs
| 1t will be seen from the above that the
selling price of practically everything
| which the farmer has had to put upon the
market has increased during the year and
| that the buying price of things which he
| consumes has decreased.
| The State Department is in receipt of a
\ communication from the United States
| consul at Odessa, Russia, to the effect
that large quantities of Russian wool of
| inferior quality are being shipped to this
| country and the manufacturers of the
| country are cautioned accordingly.
The proposed duty on the quantity of
| rawhide which would be used in the man
| ufacture of a pair of shoes is estimated at
| about 5 cents. Only about one-hfth, how
| ever, of the hides used in this country are
| imported, so that the increased cost of
| pair of shoes by reason of the duty would
| probably not be more than one or two
| The rrOhahlV
| about three pairs of shoes per year. Does
| anybody particularly object to paying
| from three to six cents toward the sup
port of the Government in its present
| extremity, especially in view of the great
| advantage accruing to the farmer!
One Reason Gold Is Exported.
! It is but reasonable, with the importa-
| +ions of foreign goods increasing SO enor-
| mously in anticipation of the repeal of
| the Wilson low tariff rates and the en-
| actment of protective tariff, that gold
| e.norts have increased. TIE foreign
! Goods brought into the country must be
| Maid for in gold, and if such importations
| increase from ten to twenty millions
| month, it goes without saying that gold
4 exports must increase somewhat Sew
eral other reasons, notably the desire Tor
| Accommodations of gold in Europe by rea-
| son of war possibilities, show that there
| is nothing alarming in the exports OF that
metal and no cause for the note of alarm
| being sounded by the silver advocates.
i The quantity of gold money in 1873 was
81 ,2O9, 500, 600, while in 1896 it was 3d.