The evening times., 1899-06-09
A GROWING MARKET
IN THE COLONIES
Expansion of American Trade
During the Year.
Business With Spain Approaching
Normal Condition.
United States Exports to Cuba and
Porto Rico During the Past
Ten Months.

American producers are already finding
an enlarged market in Cuba, Porto r CO.
Hawaii, and the Philippines. The figurss
OF the Treasury Bureau Of Statistics, just
issued, indicate that the exports of the
fiscal year which ends with this month
will show larger expectation to Hawaii
and the Philippines than ever before, and
larger to Cuba and Porto Rico than in any
previous year except those in which eci-
procity was in operation.
The exports to Cuba in the ten months
ending April 80, 1899. were so per cent in
excess of those of the corresponding
months OF 1898; .3nd more than double
those of the same months in the fiscal
year 1897. To Porto Rico, the exports are
80 per cent in excess of the corresponding
months of last year, and to Hawaii the
per cent in excess of those of
the same months in 1898, and
double those of the corresponding months
of 1897. To the Philippines. the exports,
despite the continuous war conditions, are
three times as much as in the correspond
ing months Of any preceding year. The
total exports to Cuba, Porto Rico Hawaii
and the Philippines in the full fiscal year
which ends with this month will reach
about $50. 1000, 600, against sl7.OCO,O0O last
year. American sales to these is ands in
the fiscal year 1899, even under the un-
settled conditions which have prevailed
in all of them except Hawaii. will exceed
those of any previous year save those Of
1893, the most successful year of the reci-
procity term.
These figures. of course, do not include
any OF the supplies sent by the Govern
ment for its troops in the islands, nor
supplies sent by the Government to the
suffering Cubans. 1t is also interesting
to note that the expectations to Spain are
approaching their normal condition those
for the ten months ending with May be-
Ing $S.000,0O0, against $10,C00.000 in the
corresponding months of last year, and
less than s10.000.0OO in the corresponding
months of the fiscal year 1897.
The increase in exports to the islands is
In almost all classes of articles which this
country has been accustomed to send them.
Exports OF agricultural machinery to Cuba
in the ten months just ended are three
times those Of the corresponding months
OF last year. Wheat flour shows an in
crease OF nearly so per cent. Cars, car
riages, and other vehicles are in 1899 four
times the amount of exports in the same
lines during 1898. Exports of cotton cloths
to Cuba, which in ten months Of 1898 we're
138. .662 yards, and in ten months of 1897
251, SOB yards. were, in ten months of 1899,
6,393. 444 yards, while to Porto Rico the
exports have increased from 22,S7S yards
In ten months OF 1898 to 1854, $40 yards in
ten months of 1899. Other manufactures
Of cotton increased in like proportion, the
value of "ali other" manufactures of cot
ton exported to Cuba in ten months of 1898
being S11, ,715, and in ten months of 1899
$S1, ,3S9, while to Porto Rico the increase
was from S1,67S in ten months Of 1898 to
SIG, ,6S1 In ten months of 1899.
The following tables show the principal