Arizona republican., 1899-06-05
OUR TRADE ABROAD
Remarkable Increase Over
 the Volume of 1895.
Siderinq inc Fall in Price of Many Articles of CommerCe-A Interesting Array of Figures.


 Our foreign commerce in the fiscal year 1899 will be even more remark able than that of the wonderful year 1S9S Our exports in 1898 averaged more than S1OO,OOO,00O per month and were nearly $2OO, ,00O, 900 greater than those of any preceding year in our his- tory. And this happened when the world aside from the United States was short in bread stuffs and was looking to the United States with al unusually good crop for it's supply. In 1899, with the world generally well supplied with it's own breadstuffs, the United States continues to export at the rate Of more than $100,000 000 q month, and up to this time has ex- ceeded by $1O,00O000 the wonderful figures of the corresponding months Of last year. This is the more remark able because the export price of wheat is now 75 cents par bushel, against one dollar a year ago, and during the en- tire ten months has averaged but 75 cents per bushel, against an average of 93 cents in the corresponding months of last year, while cotton dur ing the ten months has averaged but 51s cents per pound, against an aver age of practically 6 cents in the cor responding months of last year. Thus the United States, in the face of the reduced foreign demand for bread stuffs and cotton, due to the enormous worlds supply of those articles, has during the ten months of the fiscal year 1899 exceeded her exports in the ten months of 1898.
 This remarkable achievement of keeping up the record of total exports in the face cR the tremendous fall in the value of breadstuffs and cotton is due to the. great success of American manufacturers in foreign fields. The detailed figures of the treasury bu- reau of statistics, covering the ten months ending with April, 1899, show that the szports of manufactures tn those months have been $275, ,97S, ,309, against $234, ,737, ,O02 in the correspond ing months of last year, an increase of 17.7per cent; while the exports of pro ducts of agriculture were $677, ,345, against S719,O12,S59, a decrease of nearly per cent. Thus agriculture has lost $41,OOO,OOO in the years ex- ports, while manufactures have gain ed s41 ,OOO,OO s
 Curiously the largest increase in ex- ports of manufactures is in iron and steel and manufactures thereof. The recent advance in prices of iron and steel led many peopl to believe that our exports in those lines would fall off. but it appears that prices abroad have advanced in about the same pro- portion as in the United States and i that consequently the increase in l price rather increased the number of | dollars worth of material exported. | At least the figures 0i1 the treasury bu- i neau of statistics show that in the ten | ending with Anil, 1899, the ex- ports of iron and steel and manufac- lures thereof have amounted to S76,- 351, ,736, against $56, 6,264, 165 in the cor ten months of 1898, S46,- of 1897, and $33, ,365, ,674 in the ten months of 1896. Thus exports of iron md steel have increased 35 per cent in he past year and have considerably nore than doubled in four years Even n the month of April in the face Of he higher prices, the exports of iron nd steel manufactures thereof to s9,O39, ,131, against $6,30S,- 66 in the corresponding months of ast year. Manufactures of cotton are lso showing remarkable increase in S99 over those of 1S9S The number f yards of cotton cloth exported in he ten months ending with April is 30,620,S21, against PIT, ,7S3, ITO in the months of last year, an 1crease of more than 50 per cent, i nough the price averaged slightly i sss, being f.6 cent per yard in the en months of 1899, against 49 cents in ( 1e ten months of 1898. The bulk Of ( le increase in exports of cotton cloth
 to China, which took from us in le past ten months III 1,921.74 yards, 5ainst SS,944, 369 in the corresponding onths of last year. Other lines of 7 anufactures also show gratifying !, ains. Agricultural implements, for lstance, increased from S5,157, ,064 in n months oiE 1898 to s8,851,1 in |. '99, an increase of considerably moro :. ian 50 per cent Manufactures of opper show an increase of $4,5OO. 900 T the ten months over the correspond + lg months of last year. Instruments ( nd apparatus for scientific purposes 50 per cent, amounting to yer s 500, 900 in the ten months just 1ded. Vegetable oils show an tn- ease of more than 25 per cent, and :. mount in the ten months to nearly Il ,0CO, 900, and there is scarcely al = stance of consequence in which man = lectures show a falling off, the only f arked example being in refined oils, c
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