Arizona republican., 1899-11-08
COMPETITOR CANADA
Our NeighbOr IN The Field for
Export Business.
A Trade in Farm Products in Thirty
Years Climbing Toward Billion
DoIIarS-A Wonderful Develop
menf of the Cheese Trade.

Washington. Nov 7.-(special)-
Canada is becoming to a certain ex-
tent a competitor of the United States
as an exporter. While this relates to
comparatively few articles, it affects
industries which have brought into
the United States from abroad many
million dollars during the past few
years. A recently published statement
by the dominion statistician, Mon.
! George Johnson. has just reached the
treasury bureau of statistics. It shows
that the exports of flour, butter, cheese
and wood since confederation. that is
from June 80. 1868. to June so. 1898.
amount to 1894. 100000. While manu-
factures of wood form of course the
! largest item in this enormous sum,
| competitor of the United States.
amounts to the surprisingly large to-
tai of s21S, pa, ,262; butter, to $5S,471 ,6O4.
and flour to So, ,34O,1S2
Commenting upon this growth in the
! expectation of these articles in which
/ Canada competes with the United
States. Statistican Johnson says:
The development of the cheese ex-
port trade is marvellous. We sent a
little over s50O.O worth of cheese 20
Great Britain in 1868, and in 1893 we
sent SIT, ,522, ,6S1 worth. thus far sur
passing the exports of the United
States, which, last year, to the
mother country, were only S3,251,6CI.
OF the total exports of Canadian man
ufactures in 1868, cheese only formed
three per cent in value, while in 1898
it formed over thirty-one per cent of
the total exports of manufactures.
The exports of manufactures of wood
as is quite natural, occupy the high
est place, but they have not increased
relatively to the others as rapidly.
IN 1865 the exports of manufactures
having wood as the raw material were
eli per cent of the whole while in
1898 they were 4O.3 per cent. During
the thirty years Great Britain has
taken of cur manufactures OF wood
over $25s, 100000 worth. while the
United States has taken s242, 100000
worth, leaving Great Britain the bet
/ ter customer by s16O0O,O
We have exported since confedera-
tion, i. e.. from June 80, 1868, to June
30, 1S95-thirty-one years-of home
products, to the value of 81, 464, ,O0O, ,OOO
or to be exact. 50, 4,277.229 These
products have been of the farm, the
mine, the fisheries, the forest, the
workshop and the factory
ITO whom have we sent these pro-
ducts? Our best customer during
these thirty-one years has been the
mother country. She has taken more
than one-half of the whole, or $780,
565,563. Our next best customer has
been the United States, which country
has taken over s955. 100000, or $SO5, ,5OO,-
600 less than the United Kingdom. The
British West Indies come next with
purchases from US, amounting to s59.-
945.541. Newfoundland has taken s4S.-
SO1,S62; France, S12,19O,654; Germany,
s9,CS9,194, and all other countries. s11S.-
64O,6fI. Great Britain began in 1865
by taking about $1S,OOO.0 of our pro-
ducts. By 1872 she had got beyond
S25, 100000; by 1882, nearly $4,000. 900:
by 1892. beyond $4,000 900, after which
year her takings increased steadily
till, in 1898, they We're over So, ,OOO. 900.
THE United States has shown no
such activity in buying from US. In
1865 the purchases of that country from
US amounted to over S22, 600, 900. By
1872 they had increased to nearly $780,
100000; by 1882, to SAL, zoo. .OOO. That Is
the highest figure their purchases ever
reached. They have been steadily de-
creasing, and in 1898 they were only
SS4 400,00 During the thirty-one
years Great Britain's purchases from
us have increased five times what they
were in TIE first year of confederation. /
In the same period the United States
purchases have increased about two
thirds more than they were in 1868 |
Great Britain, which purchased in /
1868 S4,4OO.0OO less than the United |
States, bought in 1898 SOS. 100000 more !
than the United States. I
THE development which has taken |
place during the period under consid- |
Grafton may be seen by the compari- /
son of 1868 and 1898:
Exports 1858 1898
Cheese 49,. ....$ 62O,543 $17,572, ,I63
Butter go. ...... 1880 2O46, ,OS6 !
Flour - . 2,2S4, ,4SS 5,425, $50 |
Wood .... ....... Il, 506,4 22,6SS,74S
Ships - . S37, ,592 191, ,C69
Other Man'fs.... 1881, 1873 S,S04, ,296
Total .... $50, ,27S,347 $56, ,224, ,322
SUICIDE OF a FEUD WITNESS.