Arizona republican., 1899-06-29
The Growth of Manufactures in
 the United States.
IN ONE SHORT DECADE
They Have Increased More Than 100 PerCenf-FOr Inc FirSf Time Our Exports of Manufactures Exceed ImporfafionS-noSf Other Coun- fries Have Sfood Still or Have Gone Slowly Backward.

Washington, June 2S-eSpecial)-
 The remarkable growth in the expor-
 tation of manufactures has led to the
 preparation by the treasury bureau Of
 statistics of a series of tables showing
 the value of each class of manufac-
 lures exported in each year during the
 past decade and the amount of each
 class sent to each country. By this
 process it is practicable to determine
 the trend of our foreign trade in man-
 ufactures, both as to the class of man.
 ufactUres most demanded abroad and
 the countries which are proving our
 best customers.
 That this subject is one which justi-
 ffes a careful study is apparent in view
 of the fact that the eXportation of
 panufactures has more than doubled
 in the last six years, more than trebled
 since 1880. more than quadrupled since
 1870. is more than eight times as large
 as it was in 1860, and in 1898 and
 1899 for the first time in our history
 exceeded the importation of manu- factures. The eXpOrtati0n of manufac-
 lures in the fiscal year about to end
 will average more than one million
 dollars a day for each business day
 of the year.
 X study of the figures which cover
 the details of the ten years eXporta- ton of manufactures shows that the
 total value of cur manufactures eX- ported has increased no per cent in the decade while an examination of the eXportation of manufactures by other countries fails to show any con- siderable percentage of increase in any of them during the same period Great Rritain's experts of manufac- lures show TO increase since 1890. the earliest year at which q separate state ment of manufactures exported IS at tair3ble, while her total exports of domestic products (of which manu- factures form about S5 per cent shows no increase in value in the decade 1SSS-91. From France the exports of show an increase of but 10 per cent, in the decade 1SS7-9G. Germany 13 Der cent, Switzerland. per cent, Netherlands 3 per cent, and ~ Austria Hungary and Russia q loss. while. as above indicated, the exports of American manufactures in the de cade 1SS9-9S show an increase of no per cent, and in the year 1899 will be about three times that of 1879
 An examination of tine details of our own exports of manufactures shows that it is in the production. manu- fracture and eXPortation of metals that we seem to excel. The history of usI- tions and peoples show that great classes of people frequently excel in certain industries and the growth of our eXpOItat:On- as well as our dO- nestle productior of manufactures seems to point to metals as our mosc successful line of work. at least ai the present time. In 1889 manufactures of metals formed less than 20 per cent of Jur total exports of manufactures. while in 1898 they formed over II per -ent. The increase ill eXpOrtatiol of metals and manufactures thereof in he decade 1SS9-9S was 339 per cent while the increase in the eXportati tion If all manufactures in that time was Iut 1f0 per cent, and the increase Ill .Xpor;ation of manufactures other han those of metals during that lime vas but 8 per cent In this estimate if the eXpOrtatiOn of manufactures of neta's only those articles composed of metals are included, hose made up in part of metals. such $ railway cars. agricultural machin- ny, etc. being included among the ,ther manufactures. The rapid increase in the eXportation of of metals is hown by the facts that the exports f brass and manufactures thereof in SSa were but S321. .137 and in 1898. i ,32n, ,093: instruments for scientific increased from S1.O53},S;5S to .. TT770. sos, and in the year about to nd will reach nearly S4.000,000. Bi- ycleS. of which there were no expor ItiOns in 1SS9 amounted to S6,S46,529 l the eNporta tions of 1898: clocks and -atches increased from $1,355,319 in SS9 to S1, 727.4S9 in 1898; zinc ard larufactures thereof, from $2S.6Sf, to 1 .;339, ,G6S; copper and its manufac-
 res. from S2.34S,954 to $32. 1S0, SIP, nd iron and steel. from $21, ,156,OTT in SS9 to $7O, 406. SS5 in 1898, while in le fiscal year 1899, the total will ex- .ed $9O,O0O,OOO.
 Another interesting fact developed y an examination of the figures is