Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-06
OUR GROWING TRADE.
Vast Increases Shown in Many Lines of
Exports.
Our Manufacturers Sent Abroad
Greatly Exceed in Value Our I'M
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Interesting Sta
tisticS on the Subject.

washington, u. c., June b.-The
manufacturers of the United States are
making in the fiscal year which closes
with this month their greatest record
In competing for the markets of. the
world. Not only will the exports OF
manufactured articles for the fiscal year
exceed those of any previous year, but
for the first time in the history of the
country they will exceed the imports CT
manufactures. In the ten months of
the fiscal year whose detailed record
the Bureau Of Statistics has just com
plated, the exports of manufactures eX-
ceeds by over s40,O00,O0 the value of
the manufactures imported, and it is
probable that for the full years rec
ord this excess will reach $4,000, 900.
In no preceding year in the history of
the country have the exports of our
manufactures
EQUALI1ED IN VALUE
the imports Of manufactured articles.
In the fiscal year 1897 the imports of
manufactured articles exceeded the val
ue Of exports of manufactures by the
sum of $27, 1862 ,217; in 1896 by S104,-
1859, 734, and in 1895 by 1921, Alb, 1888.
Nearly every branch of our great
manufacturing industries has shared in
this growth of our sales to other parts
of the world. The exports of agricul-
tural implements, fer instance, which
in 1888 were about S2600,0 600 in value,
will, in the year 1898, be IN round num-
bers S6,000,00 Locomotive engines
whose expectation in 1888 was less than
$500, 900 in value, will in 1898, reach
probably $4,000, Coo orders for more
than $50 engines having been placed
with the great manufacturing establish
ments during the past two months for
use in China, Japan, Russia. Egypt,
Australasia and South America. Bar
iron, of which we exported 10000
pounds in 1888, will amount to 10000
coo pounds of exports in 1898. Build
ers' hardware, the exports of which in
1888 were valued at SLAP, 635, were
the last fiscal year S4,152, 1886 in value.
The
EXPORTS OF CUT NAILS
which in 1888 amounted to II, 1868, 664
pounds, will in 1898 amount to more
than $4,000 coo pounds, an increase of
200 per cent, while wire nails have in
creased over 1000 per cent. the exports
of wire wrought and horse shoe nails
in 1883 being 1,547, 078 pounds, while
those of 1898 will reach nearly if not
quite 20,000,O00 pounds. Exports of
iron plates and sheets. which in 1889
were less than 100000 pounds will in
the year which ends with this month
amount to nearly 5000, 900 pounds,
while those Of steel plates and sheets
which were but lis, 419 pounds in 1888
will exceed 20,000000 pounds in 1898
The total value Of exports of manufac
lures of iron and steel which in 1883
amounted to $17,763,034 will in 1898
exceed $65 900 coo. The exports of
leather and manufactures thereof which
in 1888 amounted to less than $4,000
COCO, will in 1898 exceed $4,000, 900 in
value. Exports of
ILLUMINATING OILS
which in 1883 amounted to 456 100000
gallons, will in 1898 exceed 800 000,-
gallons, while libricating oils which in
1883 were less than 10000 gallons,
will in 1898 reach $4,000, GEO gallons.
The expectations Or paraff1ne and para
fine wax which in 1883 were Sc ,000,0
pounds, will in 1898 reach 140 100000
pounds. Soap increases from 5000, 900
pounds in 1888 to over 81 900 900 pounds
in 1898; glass and glassware from $751;
623 in 1888 to 81, 20S, 1877 in 1897; manu-
features of rubber from 1886, 1867 in 1888
to 81 ,S07 ,145 in 1897 Manufactures of
cotton show an increase Of so per cent
in the value Of their exports during the
past ten years; exports Of chemicals
have also increased sc per cent in value
during the same time. Manufactures
of brass have increased from $30S, 124 in
1888 to ST. AGO coo in 1898, while manu-
features Of copper, including ingots and
bars, which in 1898 were $3,S12, 1913,
were last year s31, 621 .125, and seem
likely to exceed that sum in 1898. In
numerous other manufactured articles
there have beeen similar gains. nearly
the entire list having shared in great
er or less degree in the growth of the
export trade during the past decade.
The total expectation Of manufactures
in 1888 amounted to S130 $685. 87, and in
1898 seem likely to reach nearly or
quite $500 ,000,0 coo.