Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-07
The United States Growing
Trade in Africa.
THE INCREASE In TEN YEARS
Has Been by Far Greater Than In
ANY Diner of the Rive Grand
Divisions S-EnaIlSh Comment on
fhe Rapidly Changing CONNER
cIaI Situation In Very Profit.
able Field.

Washington, Sept 6.-(Special.)-
The increased public interest in af-
fairs in Africa and especially South
Africa resulting from recent develop
ments just prepared by the treasury
bureau of statistics relative to the
commerce of the United States with
that continent and the growing de-
mand in all of its divisions for cur
manufactures and products. Exports
from the United States to Africa were
in the fiscal year 1899 more than five
times as great as they were in 1889.
The total exports from the United
States to adj Of Africa in the fisceai
year 1889 were but So. .496, sos, and in
1899 they were $1S, ,594, ,424. From Cape
MIA American manufactures and Amer
lean food stuffs are making their way.
Railroad bridges in the Nile valley,
mining machinery in the gold and dia
mond districts. clothing and food
stuffs in the Soudan all find an in
creasing demand. Exports from the
United States to Africa have grown
more rapidly since 1898 than those to
any other part of the grand divisions
of the world, while Asia and Oceanica
comes next, Europe next, North Amer
lea next, and South America last in
the list showing the relative growth in
our exports. To Africa, the increase
from 1898 to 1899 is 21S per cent; to
Asia and Oceanfca, 1S5 per cent; to
Europe. AZ per cent; to North Amer
lea, 80 per eent. and to South America,
10 per cent, while the increase in the
grand total during that period has
been in round number As per cent.
Manufactured articles fern the bulk
of our expectations to Africa, and even
in those articles ordinarily grouped
under the title of bread stuffs and
provisions they are classes which have
been so far advanced to a condition for
immediate use that practically all of
the labor required in their preparation
as well as production is included in
are put into the market. Flour, meats,
lard, tobacco, mineral oils, clothing
machinery, furniture materials for
railways, materials for mining indus
tries and agricultural implements form
the large proportion Of our exports to
and value of our exports are constant
ly increasing.
Not only are our exports to Africa
rapidly growing, but they are evident
ly taking the place to a greater or
less extent of those articles formerly
supplied by other countries. The
British South African Export Gazette
in recent number calls attention to
the fact that imports into British and
Portuguese Africa from the United
States are rapidly growing. ana that
the increase from 1928 to 1878 was
2S1 per cent; in articles competing
with British goods the increase was
40 per cent and in non-competing ar
ticles Sos per cent. Commenting upon
this subject, it says:
THE great Significance CT the ccm-
petitive items Of the table is that
general entry has been made into a
hitherto English market, and the pro-
gress which has been made, shown by
the aggregate perennial increass of
1892 per cent in the five years, is of
4 nature to challenge most serious at
Lention. Of exports of competing arti-
cles I'm relatively large proportion.
hose to the extent of five figures and
III Toll
,hinery, classed unenumerated, agri-
cultural pumps and appliances, and
ewing and typewriting machines.
Among metal goods are structural iron
Ind steel, unenumerated iron ware,
'ailway material, pipes and fittings,
wire and tinware; in hardware are
ocks and unenumerated tools, but the
aggregate of the items under this
reading approaches six figures.
Taken in the aggregate the list of
rticles and the figures appended are
yithout doubt full of import for all
howing as thsy do that American
has to be met in all parts
trade. This competition is also not
} be ignored because the shipments in
lany cases are both small in quantity
nd alue, as it lis popularity Incl
er4tal to the opening of all new mar
cts. The energy which our trans
tlantic cousins put into all of their
ew departures is earnest of a suffl-
lently active exploration in the near
Iture. This can only be met and the