The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-08-25

those of tie North Atlantic coast, This
policy will benefit all sections, but It will
prove to be the commercial salvation of
the cottOn-growing States, as we intro
duce cotton goods to new customers in
warmer climates. There is no party
question entering into this matter; but
tits fraught with great good, especially
to the cotton grower of the South.
The following is clipped from the
Philadelphia Inquirer:
WASHINGTON, JUNE 23, 1898.
The rapid growth of our commerce
with China, a subject just now attracting
SPECIAL attention, is shown som what in
detail by series of tables in the latest
number of Summary of Finance and
Commerce issued by the Bureau Of Sta
tistics. These table shows that our ex-
ports to China in the year ending will be
about four times as much as in the year
1895. Tie exports from the United
States to China in 1895 were $3,6o3,S4o,
and in the fiscal year which ends with
this month promise to be, in round num-
berS, $1,000, ,Ooo.
But for the fact that there has been
Il reduction during the past year in the
values OF many articles exported the
figures for the present year would be
considerably greater than the SUN
named. The exports Of mineral oils, for
instance, have increased this year more
than 100000 gallons over last year, but
by reason of the decrsase in price the
total cash value falls considerably below
that of last year In nearly all of the
articles exported from this country to
China there has been an increase in
quantity in the fiscal year 1898 compared
with 1897 or any preceding year. In
bicycles, for intance, the exports to China
for ten months of the present fiscal year
amount to $24,G06 against $l1,44 in the
corresponding months of last year.
In telegraph, telephone, and other in
struments of this class the exports OF the
ten months are $22, ,374, against S3,94o in
the same time last year. Carriages and
cars increased from $I,63e in the first
ten months of last year to $2S,6, in the
corresponding months of this year; fruits
and nuts from 81 1908 last year to S2S,-
sol this year; canned beef from 9o,9Sl
pounds in ten months of las wear 10 1885,
7I8 !'onnd- in the am m
huDu o.
$40 DO ,ds: ,..utcI, 40 6.&II ,.a.'.-
to 2o,oS5 pounds, and other articles in
like proportion. In cotton cloth there
is reduction of about IL per cent COM
pared with last year, though the total
number of ards this - ar vii b. n"1r,v
lou ha
lime, as uCu as Ia 10 5.
Our sales to China this year will show
an increase of more than 80" per cent
over those of 1880, while our imports
from that country snow ali increase OF
but 35 per cent in the same tim". Our
exports of merchandise to China in the
present fiscal year are tenf"id tnoH'' OF
the fiscal year 1880, the total To- that
year being 81, Io1 1888, while that OF 1898
Is likely to be 81 900, 900, in round num-
bers. Our total exports t. all Asia this
yea will dmraaC
being d, ga,n ui 10 3.. uro. ser -,-..,.''
more than doul.r wLa, they were III
1850, and more than ten times what tmey
were in 1870.
Of this total of $45.ooo,ooo, about one.
third goes to China lin part by way OF
Hongkong), one-third 10 Japan, and the
bulk of the remaining third to India AID
the East Indies. In this calculation OF
distribution it is assumed that the bulk
of the imports into Hongkong, which
are always heavy, are for China, the
Statesman's Year Book saying of the
business of that pOlt that it Is VIRTUALLY
a part of the commerce of China"
The following table shows the leading
articles exported form the United states
to China in the last fiscal year compared
with those of preceding year: