Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-11

ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS. MORE THAN
s THREE-FoURTHs OF WHICH WENT
TO EUROPE
Washington, d. c., july 10.-More
than three-quarters OF the one billion,
two hundred million dollars worth OF
our productions which were sent
abroad during the fiscal year just
ended went to Europe, while only
one-half of the six hundred million
dollars worth which We imported came
from Europe Nearly cne-half of our
exports of the year went to the United
Kingdom alone, while our imports
from the United Kingdom were less
than one-fifth of our total importa-
TONS
While the full figures of the fiscal
year are not yet complete, the reports
OF the Bureau OF Statistics covering the
eleven months ending June 1, are suffi-
cient to show who have been the pur-
chasers of the enormous aggregation
of domestic productions which the
United States has now distributed to
the world in this year of her greatest
commerce. Our sales to Europe are
more than three times as much as our
purchases from that part of the world,
the exports to Europe, during eleven
months of the year being 1901 ,014,7S6,
and the imports from European coun-
tries in the same time, $281 ,091, OO2.
To the countries of North America we
have sold so per cent more than we
have purchased from them, our ex-
ports to them for the eleven months
being $127, 125, 1929, against $S1,2S7, ASS
of imports from them. To Africa we
have sold more than double the
amount of our purchases, the exports
to that part of the world being $16,-
OF, 1853 in the eleven months whose
record is completed and the imports
$6,786,017. Here the scale turns
against us, for in our commerce with
South America, Asia and Oceanca
our sales to each of those countries
have been far less than our purchases
from them To South America we
sold during the eleven months only
$50, 74S,S46 worth, while our purchases
from that part of the world were
$S5,S59,245. To Asia our sales were
but $41,561,531 and our purchases
therefrom 1881, 1853 To Oceanica
our sales were $19,979,555 and our
purchases $23, 1865, 1872. 1t is gratifying
to observe however, that in our trade
with Asia, where all nations OF the
earth are striving to extend their COM
merce, there has been a material gain
In our exports during the year, the
total being nearly Is per cent greater
than that of last year.
The figures for the year Will snow
marked Improvement over those OF last
year. the exports to Europe being more
than three times the imports from Eu-
rope. while last year they were not
quite double the imports; the exports
to North American countries will be
nearly fifty million dollars in excess OF
the imports from those countries, While
last year the excess of exports was less
than twenty million dollars; our i'm
ports from South America will be lou
per cent. in excess of our exports TO
that part of the world, while last year
they were more than 200 per cent. great
er than the exports.
There is not country, indeed scarce
ly a spot in the civilized portions OF the
globe which has not been customer OF
the United States in the year just end
ed. From the United Kingdom whose
total purchases for the year are nearly
six hundred million dollars, down to
Paraguay, with a total of less than one
thousand dollars, the continents, coun-
tries and the islands of the earth have
purchased of the plenteous supplies
which the United States has been able
to offer to the world in this greatest
year of her commerce. To the United
Kingdom the exports for the eleven
months were 1901, 1855, 263, against $751;
926,S90 in the corresponding months Of
the preceding year. Germany came
next as purchaser, our total sales to
that country being $143, 416,O65, against
SIG, 1881, Ats last year. The next largest
purchaser was France, to which we ex-
ported $S7, OLE, S41 in the eleven months
of the year. against 54,575,2 9S in the
corresponding months of the preceding
year Next came British North Amer
lea, with purchases amounting to $76,-
16O,414, against only $59,676,5 94; the
Netherlands, with $50, 1888, 226, against
$46, 436,034 last year; then Belgium,
with $44,0O6,379, against $50, 469, 416 last
year; then Italy, S21, 377, against
$20,205, 301 last year; Mexico, $19,304,-
est, against $21, 396,395 last year; ia
pan, $19, 26O, Ais, against s12, 466, 433 last
year; British Australasia $14,213, COG,
against SIG, 1902 last year; Brazil,
$12,694, 163, against 81 ,413,345 last year;
Denmark, $11,604,57S, against S9,627,-
047; British Africa, s10,953,954, against
$12,216, $50; Spain, $10193,S09, against
$10,2OS,637, and China, S9,036, 727,
against $10,9S1. 919 last year, while none
of the other countries of the world
reached the S10,000,000 line in the elev-
en- months whose record is now COM
plete
Our purchases abroad, as already in
dicated, are much less than those of