The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-26
..A A RECORD.
i1ade by the United States in the
4 Expectation
OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.
More Than Doubled In the Inst Six
= Years, and Eight Times Larger
Than in 1seo-Tho Respect in
Z Which We Excel All Other Nations.
An Interesting Array Of Statistics.

S WASHINGTON, D. c.. June 25,-Thc
remarkable growth in the expectation
OF manufactures has led to the prepar-
alton by the treasury bureau OF stalls
tics OF q series OF tables showing the
value Of each class OF manufactures ex-
ported In each year during the past de-
cade and the amount of each class sent
to- each country. BY this process 1t is
Z practicable to determine the trend OF
our foreign trade In manufactures.
J both as to the class of manufactures
most demanded abroad and the coun-
! tries which are proving our best custo-
mers.
That this subject Is one which justi-
fies a careful study is apparent In view
OF the fact that the expectation OF
( manufactures has more than doubled
Z In the last six years. more than trebled
nince 1880, more than quadrupled since
1870. is more than eight times as large
as 1t was in 1850, and in 1898 and 1899 for
the first time In our history exceeded
the importation Of manufactures. The
expectation OF manufactures In the
fiscal year about to end will average
more than one million dollars. day for
each business day Of the year.
A study of the figures which cover
the details OF the ten years exporta-
tion OF manufactures shows that the
total value OF our manufactures ex-
ported has increased ITO per cent In the
decade, while an examination of the
expectation OF manufactures by other
countries falls to show any considerable
percentage OF increase In any Of them
during the. same period. Great Brit
aims exports OF manufactures show no
increase since 1890. the earliest year at
which separate statement Of manu-
features exported is obtainable, while
her total exports OF domestic products
(of which manufactures form about IS
per cent?. shows no increase in value In
the decade 1sSS97 From France the
exports Of manufactures show an In
crease Of but 10 per cent in the decade
\ 1876; Germany l3 per cent; Switzer-
land 6per cent: Netherlands 3 per cent:
Austria Hungary and Russia n loss,
while. as above indicated, the exports OF
American manufactures in the decade
Z 1SS9-9S show an increase Of 10 per cent
and In the year 1899 Will be about three
times that OF 1879.
an examination OF the details OF our
own exports OF manufactures shows
That It Is IN the production. nanufac-
z ture ahG expectation OF metals that we
seem 10 excel. The history OF ma
tons and peoples shows that great
certain Industries, and the growth of
our expectation. us well as our domes-
tic production OF manufactures seems
to point to metals as our most success
full line OF work, ut least at the presen.
time. In 1883 manufactures OF metals
formed less than 20 per cent Of our to-
tai exports OF manufactures, while In
1893 they formed over "A per cent. The
increase In expectation of metals and
manufactures thereof in the decade
1SS9-99 was 80 per cent, while the In
crease in the expectation Of all manu-.
features in that time was but no per
cent and the increase in expectation OF
manufactures other than those OF met
ais during that time was but SIS per
cent. In this estimate Of the exportn.
ton OF manufactures of metals only
rno,,,s GRO included tboc. m,ds IN In
n,rt n, ,,o,,,s cur, 40 r,,,poy cara
o,-,o,,,,rro, ,,,o,,r.ry atc b,,,y In
oIudod ,,,o,,, tho o,bo- mn,u,octures
The rapid increase in the expectation
of manufactures Of metals Is shown by
the fact that the exports of brass and
manufacturers thereof in 1889 were but
s32I,137 and in 1898, O,0s3: instru-
ments for scientific purposes increased
from sl,O33, 33S to s2.77Oso3. and In the
year about 10 end will reach nearly
$4,000. 900: cycles. OF which there were
no expectations in 1889 amounted to
s6.s46S29 In the expectations OF 1898;
clocks md watches increased from