The San Francisco call., 1898-06-07
BIG INCREASE IN EXPORTS.
HOWTHE UNITED STATES SENDS
 PRODUCTS ABROAD.
Foreign Trade of the Fiscal Year, Which Closes This Month, Is Multiplying at an Aston
 ishing Rate.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, June 6.-The manufac- turers of the United States are making, in the fiscal year which closes with this month, their greatest record in compet- Ing for the markets of the world, ayers
 the Washington correspondent of the Tribune. Not only will the exports of
 manufactured articles for the fiscal year exceed those of any previous year,
 put for the first time in the history of the country they will exceed the i'm ports of manufactures. In the ten months of the fiscal year the detailed record of which the Bureau of Statis- tics has just completed, the exports of manufactures exceed by over $40, 900, 900 the value of the manufactures import ed, and it is probable that for the full years record this excess will reach $50,o0O,OOO In no preceding year in the history of the country have the exports Of manufactures equaled in value the imports of manufactured articles. In the fiscal year of 1897 the imports of manufactured articles exceeded the value of exports of manufactures by the sum of s27, 1862, 217; in 1896 by $1o4,- 759,7S4, and in 1895 by s121, ,413,7S3.
 Nearly every branch of the manufac- turing industries has shared in this growth of sales to other parts of the world. The exports of agricultural im- plements, for instance, which in 1888 were about S2,600000 in. value, will in the year 1898 be, in round numbers So,000,0O0. Locomotive engines, whose exportation in 1888 was less than $50O,- 900 in value, will in 1898 reach probably S4,O00,000, orders for more than 150 en- zines having been placed with the great manufacturing establishments during the last two months for use in China, Japan, Russia, Egypt, Austra- lia and South America.
 Bar iron, of which 100000 pounds were sent abroad in 1888 this year 10,- O0O,0 900 will be exported. Builders hard ware, the export of which in 1888 was valued at $1,442633, was in the last fis- cal year S4, ,152, ,836 in value. The exports Of cut nails, which in 1888 amounted to 11,963,664 pounds, will in 1898 amount to more than 35,000,000 pounds, an in- crease of 200 per cent. Wire nails have increased over 1000 per cent, the ex- ports of wire, wrought and horseshoe nails In 1888 being 1,547,07S pounds, while those of 1898 will reach nearly, if not quite, 20,000000 pounds. Exports of iron plates and sheets, which in 1888 were less than 1,000,000 pounds, will in this year amount to nearly 5000, 900 pounds while those of steel plates and sheets. which were but 11941 pounds in 1888. will exceed 10000, ,000 pounds in 1898.
 The total value of the exports of man. ufactures of iron and steel, which in 1888 amounted to $17,000, 900, will in 1898 exceed $65, 900, ,000 The exports of leath- CTS and manufactures thereof, which in 1888 amounted to less than $1O,000,0 900, will in 1898 exceed s20, 1000, 900 in value Exports of Illuminating oil, which in 1888 amounted to 456. .0O0, ,000 gallons, will in 1898 exceed SOC, 900, 900 gallons, while lubricating oils, which in 1888 were less than 23,000,0 900 gallons, will in 1898 reach 100000 gallons. The exportations of parafflne and paraffine wax, which in 1888 were 36,000,000 pounds, will in 1898 reach 140,000,000 Soap increases from 19,000,00 pounds in 1888 to over 27, ,000,- 900 pounds in 1898; glass and glassware from $SS1, ,62S in 1888 to s1 POS, ,187 in 1898; manufactures of rubber from $S66, ,S67 in 1888 to $1, S07, 145 in 1898.
 Manufactures of cotton show an in- crease of 50 per cent in the value of their exports during the last ten years; exports of chemicals have also in- creased 50 per cent in value during the same time. Manufactures of brass have increased from $30S,124 in 1888 to over $1,400000 in 1898, while manufac- lures of copper, including ingots and bars, which in 1888 were $3,812,79O, were last year $31, ,621, ,127 and seemed likely to exceed that sum in 1898. In numer- ous other manufactured articles there have been similar gains, nearly the en- tire list having shared in a greater or less degree in the growth of the ex- port trade during the last decade. The total exportation of manufactures in 1888 amounted to $13O, 3Oo,O ,OS7, and in 1898 seems likely to reach nearly or quite $290, 900, GOO.