The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-30
GROWTH IN EXPORTS
some Astonishing Figures Put Forth
by the Treasury Department

Washington. Nov. 2S.-The remarkable
growth in our exports of manufactures
is illutrated by table just prepared by
the treasury bureau OF statistics showing
the exports OF leading articles OF manu-
facture al ten-year intervals during the
past thirty years. This table shows the
exports OF each class of manufacturing
whose value exceeded 81. 900. 900 in the year
1855, comparing that years exports with
those Of 1883. 1873 and 1865 and thus pre-
senting a birds eye view of the growth
of our leading exports Of manufactures
during the thirty years period.
The total export of manufactures in
1898 was more than five times that OF
1868, that for 1898 being s2SS. S71. 40. while
that of 1868 was in round numbers about
So. 600. 900. expressed in the deprecated
currency of that date. and when reduced
to the gold standard by which our man
ufactures are now measured would be less
than $500. 900.
Thirty-four classes Of manufactured ar
ticles show an export of more than $1,000
coo each in the year 1885, while N 1858
only seven Of those classes showed an eX-
ports of as much as s.. 600 600 each. Five
classe Of articles snow an export in 1885
of more than 100000 each. while in
1868 only one of the classes showed an
expectation of as much as 100000. Even
in 1888. only ten years ago. but seventeen
Of the thirty-four classes showed as much
as sl.OOo.O00 each in value. and but three
of them passed the $4,000. 90 line. In
these calculations II must be borne in
mind that values of nearly all articles
are now less than at the earlier dates con-
sidered, so that these statements OF the
exports OF great groups OF articles. while
necessarily expressed only in values.
doubtless represent in 1895 a larger guam
tity for each dollar or million OF dollars
than in 1858 or 1873. and especially more
than in 1868 when the values were ex-
pressed in deprecated currency.
OF the important classes OF manufac-
lures. those OF cotton, leather. wood and
iron and steel present the most striking
evidence OF growth. Exports OF cotton
goods which in 1865. even expressed IN
the currency Of that date. were less than
three million dollars but in 1885 were over
seventeen million dollars. Exports OF
leather which in 1858 were less than two
million dollars were IN 1888 more than
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OF wood. which shwed an expectation OF
two million dollars In 1858 were in 1885 over
nine million dollars. Manufactures OF iron
and steel which expressed in the cur
rency Of 1865 were a little over eight mil.
ion dollars were in 1ssS over seventy
million dollars. None OF the great items
OF export show as rapid growth as cop
per, CT which the exports In ls5s were
less than half a million dollars. while
in 1898 they were over thirty-two million
dollars. Parafne. a comparatively re-
cent development In the great petroleum
industry. amounted 20 less than fifty
thousand dollars in our exports OF lS;s.
while in those Of 1893 amounted 20 more
than SIX million dollars.
That these statements which show a
wonderful growth IN the value OF our
exports do not. because OF decreased val
ues in most cases, exhibit the real growth
IN quantities % articles exported IS Illus
tra.ed IN the single case % refined min
eral oils. in which the exports since 1sss
nave increased ten fold. while the values
as expressed in this table are but two
and a half times those 81 1855.