New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24
AMERICAN FIRMS MAKING ONE-THIRI
OF THE WORLDS MANUFACTURES.
EHh STEADY GAIN IN EXPORTS OF AMERICAN
GOODS EVIDENCE OF THE SATISFACTION
GIVEN THE FOREIGN CONsUMER--coM-
PIIATION OF FACTS RELATING TO
SPECIAL ARTICLES AND THE
COUNTRIES IN WHICH
THEY FIND
MARKET


rounded commercial development Of the United
States II would be found in the remarkable in
crease in those exports which represent the
product of human skill and labor. The ire
mendous exports CT the last fiscal year were the
result chiefly of the expansion in the foreign
business done by American manufacturers
The value of the provisions breadstuffs and
dairy products, petroleum and cotton exported
by the United States during the last fiscal year
was greater than any total previously reached
IN those departments, but the difference between
1SSO-'S1 and 1S97-'9S not much in favor of
the later year, These figures were $7S4.915.6OO
In the last fiscal year. subject to certain slight
corrections. whereas in the fiscal year 1SS0-'S1
the total $7l5. 153.714 In cotton the COM
parison favors the earlier year. In the fiscal
year 1912 the total came still nearer the
record-breaking statistics of 1S97-'98. The flg-
ures for 1912 were $742 1902 500
1t will be seen that If only the four five
great staples which come pretty directly from
the soil were taken into account the exports Of
the United States in the last fiscal year. while
very great and the largest ever known. would
not have made long step beyond the best
previous record. The exports of cotton have
often reached a greater money value and that
has happened several times in the petroleum
trade. The record was broken by less than 49,,
100000 in provisions and dairy products. Yet
the grand total of all exports surpassed the pre-
vious high-water mark. made in 1SsG-01. by
more than $1S0000.000. The fiscal years of
1SS0'S1 and 1912. when the exports Of agri-
cultural staples came nearest the figures for
last year. were beaten in the total for all ex-
ports by $500 100000 and $201, 100000. respec-
lively. The world is turning out at present
manufactured products at the rate of S3S6OO-
100000 year. and America is doing one-t third
Of this work.
The census of the United States for 1890 gives
the manufactures o; this country for year
(1SS9) as $9373, O00O 900. and the census of 1880
gives the value for that year as $5.31O.O0O,OO0,
showing the gain in ten years TO have been ST.
003,0OC.O0O. or a gain in a decade Of t4.J per
cent. At this same rate Of gain for ten years,
between 1890 and 1900 the value of Americas
manufactured products in 1900 would reach
S1636O, 100000. Suppose one cancels this rate
Of gain for three years Of business depression,
there would still remain $14,273, 100000 as the
value Of Americas manufactures for the year
1900 or the sum Of $12S73 100000 as the pres
ent OS9S rate OF the annual products of this
country.
In ten years the totals of our exports have
increased at a rapid rate and the figures are
certainly imposing at the present time. In this
connection il is worth remembering also that
unless the goods sent abroad had given salts
faction such gains could be noted.
That the gains have been general and that
all countries alike appreciate the value of our
products are suggested by the following COM
pariscns
Ten years ago the United States sold to
nations classed African S3OcOOOO worth OF
goods now our sales to the same nations
amount to $17,000,OOO. In the same time our
sales to Japan have increased from S1,00O,OOO 10
sd 900 900; our sales to China, from S4,oOo,oO0
to $100O0O00. The increase OF sales to Aus
tria- Hungary have increased from S3OOOOo IN
1883 to $JOOO.OO0 in 1898: increase to Belgium.
from SO 900 600 to SAT, coo, 900; to the Neither
lands from S16,000,O0O to S6500O,OO0 to
France from $40 900 600 to S1O0.0OO,00O; to Ger
many. from S56,OO0.OOO to $l30000 600; to Brit
ish North America, from $3S,000COO to $50
100000 to the United Kingdom from S3O2.OOO,-
600 to $5400OOOOO.
A striking view of the growth Of this country
A Industrial affairs has been prepared from sta
tjstics altered in Sweden. as analyZeo py the
British Consul at Stockholm
Periods of five years were used in making the
comparisons, the figures ending with 1922 In
average annual pig-ron production the Oniteo
States increased from 2,2S4.OO0 tons IN the
iSSi-'75 period to S263, 900 tons in the 1S0l-0o
period. Since 1871 the British share in sup
plying the world with IRON has shrunk from
463 ner cent to 37.5, while that of the United
states has increased from l6l per cent TO 3oo;
Tn tho output of iron ore the British annual
figure declined in 1895 to 12.249,OOO tors
and that of the United States advanced 10
Ia 2SS 900 tons. In the twenty-nve years COW
cred by the tables ending IN 1919 .ne C,ni MIA
states has Increased its total in the worlds yleid
NJ coal from II TO nearly 80 per cent, while the
british output fell Off from Al to 81 per cent
Great Britans consumption Of cotton In the
same time has increased by Iourth' anu 'ha'
of the United States has doubled
The United States produces fifth OF the
worlds wheat supply, England and all its colo