The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-08
Exports of Manufactures Beat
All Previous Records.
Imports Put in the Shade By a
Large Majority.
INCREASE OVER 1883
Branches
Show a Development.
Figures That Are Interesting
to All Readers.

washington. June s.-The manufacturers
of the United States are making in the
fiscal year which closes with this month
their greatest record in competing for the
markets of the world
Not only will the exports of manufactur-
ed articles for the fiscal year exceed those
of any previous year, but for the first time
IN the history of the country they Will e1-
coed the imports of manufactures.
In the ten months of the fiscal year
whose detailed record the bureau OF sta-
tisticS has completed the exports OF manu-
features exceed by over $4O,OOOOOO the
value of the manufactures imported and
IT is probable that for the full year the ex-
cess will reach S5O,O00,OO0. In no preceding
year in the history of the country nave
the exports of our manufactures equaleo
in value the imports of manufactured ar
ticles. In the fiscal year 1897 the imports
of manufactured articles exceedef1 ne
value of exports OF nanuIaStu S49, 70 %
sum of 81. So, 217; in 1886. by $lo4' 49, 49,
and in 1895 by S121. 41S. 49,
Nearly every branch or our great Ina .Ii
featuring industries has shared IN TINS
growth Of our sales to other parts Oh the
The exports of agricultural implements,
for instance, which in 1888 We're ABOUT 81
round numbers 100000. .,o
Locomotive engines. whose exportatlon
in 1888 was less than $4,000 in value, VIII
in 1898 reach probably $4,O0OOOO. ORDERS
for more than 15O engines have been placed
with the great manufacturing eStabLSh-
ments during the past two months Tor
use in China Japan, Russia, Egypt, Aus
tralasia and South America. 100 90
Bar iron, of which we exported 500,000
pounds in 1888. will amount to 1O0OU'Ooo
pounds of exports in 1898.
Builders hardware the exports of which
in 1883 were valued at 81 .442, 635, were last
of cut nails: which in 1888 amounted to H.
than 100000 pounds an Increase of 200
per cent, While wire nails have increased
over LOCO per cent, the exports of wire,
wrought and horseshoe nails in 1883 be-
ing 54lUl3 pounds, while those IN 1888
will reach nearly If not quite HoOOOOO9.
Exports of iron plates and sheets. which
in 1889 were less than 100000 pounds, will
amount to nearly 100000 pounds, while
were 115, 40 pounds in 1883, Will exceed ~
900 600 bounds in 1895
The total value of the exports of manu-
features of iron and steel, which in 1888
amounted to $17,76S.O34, will in 1898 ex-
The exports of leather and manufactures
thereof which in 1888 amounted to less
than SO 900 900, will in 1898 exceed $40 00O,OO
Exports of Illuminating oils. which, in
1883 amounted to 456, 600 gallons, will in
1888 exceed S0O.Oo0.00O gallons, while lubri-
eating oils, which in ISIS were less than an
% 600 900 gallons, will in 1898 reach 5000, 900
The expectation of paraff1ne and paraf-
pounds. will in 1898 reach 140. 600 900 pounds.
Soap increases from 100000 pounds in
and glassware from sSS1 62S in 1888 to 81
20s 1z7 in 1897; manufactures of rubber
from $65,S67 in 1888 to 81. S07, 145 in 1897.
Manufactures of cotton show anincrease
of so per cent in the value of their exports
during the last ten years.
Exports of chemicals have also increas-
ed so per cent in value during the same
time.
Manufactures of brass have increased
from $30S 124 in 1855 to over 81 400 900 in 1898,
while manufactures of copper including
ingots and bars, which in 1883 were So
s12, 798, were last year $S1 .621 125, and seem
likely to exceed that sum in 1898.
In numerous other manufactured arti-
cleS there have been similar gains, nearly
the entire list having shared in a greater
or lesser degree the growth of the export
trade during the past decade.
The total expectation of manufactures
in 1888 amounted to $3.50, 3OOiOS7 and in 1898
seem likely to reach nearly or quite $780,
900 600