The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-30

Specia, Dispatch 10 the post-In.elligencsr.
WASHINGTON. June S.-The rapid
growth OF our commerce with China,
subject Just now attracting especial at
ten.icn is shown somewhat in detail by
q series Of tables in the latest number o.
the Summary % Finance and Commerce.
issued by the bureau of statistics. These
tables show that our exports 10 Cltna n
the year just ending will BE- about four
times as much as in the iscal year 1870,
and more than three times as much a in
1925. The exports from the United States
TO China in 1885 were sSea2. So. ard in the
fiscal year which ends with this month
promise 20 be in round NUMBERS SLICE e21.
But for the fact that there has been
reduction during the past year In the val
ues OF many articles exported the ugureS
for the present year would be consider
ably greater than the sum named. The
exports OF mineral oils. for instance. have
Increased this year more than iea,oeo ga
Ions over last year. but by reason of the
decrease in price, the total cash value
fails considerably below that OF last year.
In nearly all of the articles exported from
this country 10 China there has been an
increase in quantity in the fiscal year 1925.
compared with isS, or any preceding year.
In bicycles, for instance. the exports to
China for ten months Of the present fiscal
year amount 10 $2i.so1. against $il,4A IN
the corresponding months Of last year. IN
telegraph. telephone and other instruments
OF this class the exports of The ten months
are $223s4. against $40 in the same time
last year Carriages and cars increased
from 81 $50 in the first ten months of last
year 10 s2S.6g, in the corresponding months
of this year: fruits and nuts from &Sooi
last year to SaS.ss1 this year canned beef
from So 9S4 pounds in ten months of last
year to 156..IS pounds in the same time
this year: bacon from 1s.q1s pounds 10 3o,Ss
pounds: hams from i6.osS pounds 10 $3.50
pounds butter from 1871 pounds to % os5
pounds. and other articles in like proper
ton. In cotton cloth there Is a reduction
of about L per cent. compared with last
year. though the total number OF yards
this year will be nearly double that OF
1896, and more than three times much
as In 1895.
Our sales to China this year Will show
an increase of more than 800 per cent.
over those OF 1882 while our imports from
that country show aa increase of but IS
per cent. in the same time Our exports
Of merchandise to China in the present
fiscal year are tenfold those OF the fiscal
year 1850, the total for that year being
81, l01, 3S3. while that of 1888 IS likely 10 he
$l1 600 900 in round numbers. Our total
exports 10 all Asia this year will amount
TO about $a5, 900, 600. being a gain of 10
per cent over last year, more than double
what they were in 1890, four times what
they were in 1850, and more than ten times
what they were in 1870. OF this total OF
Sa5, 900, 0o0 about one-third goes to China
In part by way of Hongkongi, one-thrd
% Japan, and the bulk of the remaining
one-third to India and ,nc East Indies
In this calculation of distribution Ii is
assumed that the bulk of the imports into
Hongkong, which are always heavy. are
for China the Statesmen's Year Book say
ing of the business Of that port that It =
virtually part of the commerce or
China"
The following table shows the leading
articles exported from the United States 10
China in the last fiscal year compared with
those of the preceding year:
Exports Of Domestic Merchandise from the
United States to China IN the fiscal