The evening times., 1898-08-05
Domestic Manufactures Keeping
Pace With the Increase.
WHOLE WORLD WANTS THIN
Articles Sent Abroad During the
Last Fiscal Year q Notable Fea-
Making Throughout the Land.
Iron and Steel In the VAN

some degree at least. overlooked. Whils
our expectations of agricultural products
during the year have been wonderful.
SURPRISING in value those of any preced-
ing year in the history of the country.
and thus attracting universal attention,
the expectation of manufactures is, when
considered in detail. equally interesting
In its bearing upon the general commerce
and prosperity. both present and future,
| of the nation.
The expectation of domestic manufact-
ures in the fiscal year 1898 is set down by
| the records of the Bureau of Statistics OF
the Treasury Department. at S2Ss. 81. 49,
which is nearly $l2. O05 coo greater thaa
any preceding year in the history of the
country. This is especially interesting In
view of the fact that the imports of man.
ufacturing during the year were abnor-
mally small. In addition to this 1t is rea-
sonable to suppose that the purchases of
manufactures by the people of this coun-
try In the prosperous year just ended
were unusually great, both by reason of
fact that during several preceding years
their purchases in these lines had be-
cause of the financial depression. been
light.
FOR these two reasons the smalIness OF
ifEpoieations of manufactures and the
prooaoie increased consumption of manu-.
lectures by our own peop!e. 1t is rslson-
aoie to suppose that the home demand
-
usually great, thus reducing to some ex-
tent. the attention which they had for
mer!y been able 10 give 70 an invasion
OF Ioreasn markets. In addition to ril;s
II mad been feared by surne that the In
creased customs rates adopted a year
ago would result in q reducticl of the
purchases CT our goods by citizens of
other nations, but this expectation was
not realized.
In view of these fac.s the large ex-
portatons of manufactures IN the year
JUS enda1 Is. to say the least, very
notTole feature of the commerce Of this
remarkable year. The total expectation
Of manufactures for the yeac. as already
Indicated. is $2sS 81. .i4s. which is more
than double that of a decade ago almost
'ahree times as much as that of 1880.
more than four times as much as In 1870,
and seven times as much as in 1850 How
much the Centennial Exhibition had to
do with awakening a taste throughout
the world for our manufactures and ryro-
ducts which were there exhibited would
be difhcuit TO say, bu; 1t Is an Interesting
iac: at least that in that year Qs76) the
exportataon Of manufactures for the first
time touched the one hundred million
dollar lS,e and since that time has gone
steadily forward until in 1898 1t reached
ssss.s'l.i .iis. or nearly 81. OOo, 900 more than
In any preceding year
What are the manufactured articles
which We have so freely exported, and
who have been their purchasers? To
answer these in detail would occupy
much space. for they include almost
every variety of article that could be
imagined, and go to every part of the
world.
OF agricultural implements the expor-
tations of the fiscal year 1898 were 81. sos.
7s2. against s2,6;5.lS7 in 1883. They went
TO Great Britain, France Germany. Brit
ish North America. Central and South
America, British East Indies and Aus
tralasia. other parts of Asia and Ocean
lea, and even to Africa, while the great
grain fields of Russia also drew largely
upon our manufactures in this line Our
cars for street and steam railways went
to all parts of Europe, China, Japan
\ d,
to Central America. Hawaii Mexico and
Africa. the value of this class of exporta-
tions for the year amounting to 50. 42i. Il9
Our cotton goods went to every part of
the world. China British North Ameri-
ca, South America and Oceanica being
the largest purchasers. the total experts
of cotton manufactures for the year be-
ing s17.02i.092 against 50 1921 in 1890.
People in Africa and China and British
E,- Tr1t ay,I Is,,i, D-s.; ;,L
tralasia and Japan and Mexico. as well
as all parts of Europe, are riding our
bicycles. the expectation for the year be-
ing S.. SAG. 529. against less than s.. 600 900
in the fiscal year 1886.
Our expectation of copper and manu-
factures thereof has increased enormous
ly in the past few years, being s32.1s1.-
SI2 In the fiscal year just ended. against
50. sl2.1 19S in 1888. OF refined mineral oils
the eXporta ton during the year amount-
ed to s51. 49,. .3l6 in value against 81. .042,-
400 in 1855 The value of the years ex-
pOrtation of oil is slightly less than that
of the preceding year, which was $56,-
i63.l35. but this is due altogether to a re-
duction in price, the number of gallons
exported being siNty-five millions great
er than in the preceding year. Every
part of the world accepted and used our
illuminating oil. more than 12, OO0. 900 GAL
Ions going to Africa, 20 o00, 900 to British
Australasia. 4.0c0. 900 to China and $780,
900 to Japan. The largest article or class
OF articles included in the list of exports
of manufactures is manufactures os
iron and steel" The value of this single
class of exports in 1893 was so. .367, ,527,
against $3O.lO6. .is2 in 1893. and 81. 7s3, ,O3l
in 1888. thus showing an increase of 30
per cent In ten years, while curious!y
there has been a corresponding decrease
In the importations of manufactures Of
iron and steel. which fell from 81, ,99l, 757
in 1888 to 81, ,615, ,o13 in 1898.
The following table includes the more
important articles of domestic manufact-
ure exported in the fiscal year 1858, COM
pared with those of 1888: