The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-08-18

those of the 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 10 new customers i'll
warmer climates. Their 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 somewhat 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. The exports from the United
States to China in 1895 were $3,6o3,84o,
and in the fiscal year which ends with
this month promise to be, in round num-
berS, $1,000, ,o0o.
But for the fact that there has been
a reduction during the past year in the
values Of many articles exported the
figures for the present year would be
considerably greater than the sum
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 S24,606 against 81 ,444 in the
corresponding months Of last year.
In telegraph, telephone, and other in
struments of this class the exports ofthe
ten months are $22 ,374, against S3,94o in
the same time last year. Carriages and
CAR ircIea>ed from $I,632 in tny first
ten months of last year 10 $2S,6s in the
corresponding months Of this year; fruits
and nuts from 81 3,oo3 last year to S2S,-
sci this year; canned beef from oo,9S4
pounds in ten months oflast year to 1885,
40 l'Ounl- III the AIN w
bacon. I % /, ,oU2
pOun IS; h ms, Ir,m 1000 pOuuu- 10 5S,-
$50 pounds; butter, from 1871 pounds
to 2o,oS5 pounds, and other articles in
like proportion. In cotton cloth there
is a reduction of about IL per cent COM
pared with last year, though the total
number of ards this vii b
douule har Jf s.. n,
times as urn rs /. o.. s
Our sales TO China this AR MA si'~
an increase Of more than 3oo per cent
over those of 1850, ah'le our impnr's
from thai country SHOW an increase oi
but s. per cent in the same i'm. Our
exports of merchandise to China in the
present fiscal year are teuf0ld those OF
the fiscal year 1880, the total for that
year being 81, Io1 1888, while that of 1898
is likely to be S1l 900, 900, in round num-
bers. Our tot II export l.. AL NSla ih'>
yea will am"luI a.... .OC- W
being a gam of 10 pc cut ,er .>I ,rsr
more than douoie wha' they wer IN
1880, and more than ten times what they
were in 1870.
Of this total Of S4j 900 ooo, aU III on"
third gnes to China lin part by way OF
Hongkong), one-third 10 Japan, and tns
bulk of the remaining third to India and
the East Indies. In thi, calcula IN OF
distribution it is assumed tha' the bniN
IF the imuort. INTO HDn%koag. when
are always heavy, are for China, the
Statesman's Year Book saying OF the
business of that poit that it is VIRTUALLY
part of the commerce of China"
The following table shows the leading
articles exported form tn" United states
to China in the last fiscal year compared
with those of proceeding year: