New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-02
FOREIGN COMMERCE. IN '9s.
TUE r,scAr. YEAR WILL. SHOW EVEN
MORE REMARKABLE RESULTS THAN
THE WONDERFUL YEAR 1898.

MORE REMARk ABLE Nr<oS'A
THE WONDERFUL YEAR 1ses'
w..,,reton Iune (speciaD.-The foreign com
uerce OF the United States In the hscai year io,e
- 900 more roma rka BILE than that OF the wohuetu
,eae r,xnor,s in isos ayera xed more than sloo"'o
90 a month and were nearly s3oooo.oo greater ,nah
those of any preceding year In American .'s'o,
And this happened when tho who're WIN
from, the United States was short IN oie"u
90 ua. leaking 10 the United States with an I'M
usually good crop, for Its supply In 1873 VIZ" '
-,o-,6 generally well supplied with Its own preao
.tnns the United States continues 10 e~po'. ."
,h. rate of more than soo,0oGooo month' ana ny
"a this time has exceeded by sl0UUWV tne "o""0
~, figures of the corresponding months OIL ias'
wear This is the more remarkable because 'ne
axnor, price OF wheat Is now 20 cents q ousnei
ara,ns, q a year ago and during the entire ten
ynorths has averaged but 10 cents a bushe against
an average Of 80 cents in the corresponding no".s
NJ last year while cotton during the ten iio''i9
has averaged but 5la cents per pouno ae""s' 90
average of practically cents in the correspoic-
a.. ,or,hs ~ last wear Thus the United States.
q, the face of the reduced foreign demand TOT
breadstuffs and cotton. due TO the enormous WI,
supply OF those articles, has during the Ten o".ns
of the fiscal year 1899 exceeded her exports III '"o
ten months of 1893 ~.
This remarkable achievement of keeping up the
record of total exports in the face OF 'he IRE
rnendous fall In the value of breadstufs ana COT
ton is due 20 the great success or American man
ufacturers IN foreign fields. The detaileo nsuies
Of the Treasury Bureau Of Statistics, covering the
ten months ending with April 1889. snow that the
exnorts of manufactures in those ten months nave
been s275 s7S 300 against s2S4 1902 IN the CORE
spending months of last year. an Increase OF IL
,r cent while the exports Of products OF agrcult-
IRE were ss77 573 345 against s7ls0l2S59 decrease
OF nearly per cent Thus agriculture has lost
50 900 in the years exports while manufactures
have gained s4i, 900.
IRON AND STEEL THE LARGEST ITEMS
Curiousiy. the largest increase In exports OF man
ufactures Is In iron and steel and MANUFACTURES
thereof The recent advance in prices OF iron ana
steel led many people to believe that exports In
those lines would fall or but appears that prices
abroad have advanced In about the same proper
ton as In the United States and that consequent
ly the increase In price rather Increased the num-
Der OF dollars worth Of material exported Al
least the figures OF the Treasury Bureau OF Sta
tisties show that In the ten months ending with
April 1889 the exports OF iron and steel and manu-
features thereof have amounted to SorSl,1So,
against ss2s4 1855 In the corresponding ten months
of 1895 s46565.116 In the corresponding months or
1897 and $685. ga in the ten months Of 1896 Thus
exports Of iron and steel have increased 5 per cent
in the last year and have considerably more than
doubled in four years. Even In the month of April,
in the face OF the higher prices the exports OF iron
and steel and manufactures thereof amounted 10
ss.css1Sl. agains; ss.soS.sSs in the corresponding
months of last year
REMARKABLE INCREASE IN COTTON GOODS
Manufactures OF cotton also showing re-
markable increase in 1899 over those of 1898 The
number of yards Of cotton cloth exported in the
months ending with April Is 330. 81, against 27,
1870 in the corresponding months Of last year. an
increase Of more than 80 per cent though the price
averaged slightly less. being 4e cents yard in the
ten months Of 1899 against AZ cents in the ten
months of 1895 The bulk Of the increase In ex-
ports OF cotton cloth is to China, which took In the
the Corresponding months OF last year. other lines
Of manufactures also show gratifying gains Aerl-
in iep months of lssS fo S5s in isss an
increase Of considerably more than 80 per cent.
co. IN the zen months over the corresponding months
Of last year Instruments ana. pparatus for scien-
le c IN he ten months just ended 1es
otabe oils show an increase of more than % per
uiSctoS and there Is scarcely an instance Of con-
ssGaenee in which manufactures show falling on
OK. which have fallen less than NOOOooo below the
lNen in provisions there has been a marked In
crease IN expectation. despite the fear that the
OF the last few months might render certain
classes Of provisions unpopular in foreign markets.
re total value OF Pf soy enPSs a m
7.sci in the correspondents months OF 1SS and tlf,
,os725 in the corresponding months OF 1897 while IN
canned beef alone the exIorts 6t the year show a
sight gain the corresponding months OF last
year and in The month OF APr ndo the exports OF
cess Of those Of April. 1898.
FALLING OFF IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
The single class OF expectations which shows a
marked falling off Is. has already been pointed
out agricultural products. and this reduction is
due almost entirely to reduction In values, not
quantities. While the value Of wheat exported IN
the ten months of 1893 but 1872 1875. against
sil4eoS ss9 in the corresponding months OF the pre-
ceding fiscal year. the number of bushels expoItet
that Of the corresponding months OF 1SsS being fo
the ten months OF 1899 2,55695s. against l22 800 B
In the months of 1895. The exporta tons or corr
have fallen off about 100000 bushels SHOWING
that foreign countries still draw upon the Unite'
States for corn only in proportion to the scarcit!
OF other breadstuffs in their own markets. tnougl
the fact that In the face of the ample supply o.
breadstuffs abroad sales of corn in the last tel
months have amounted to 1l,000.c00 bushels show
that this class OF products has gained permanen
took 10 10000 Of the 14 10000 bushels exported dur
Ing that time. 1890. 80,
In imports there has increase OF s5i 900 600
or about 10 per cent over last year or this In
$50 100000 Is in sugar, OF which the 1928 i'm
ports abnormally light. by reason OF the over
supply brought In prior TO the enactment OF th'
Dlngley law, In 1897. while about S0,Oo00OO OF th
increase ia shown In manufactured articles anC
SO 900 in Injuries articles manufactured for u.s.
in the mechanic arts showing reduction of abou
preceding year. Articles In crude condition fol
use In the domestic industries show an increase o
about sll Oo00 which is pretty evenly distributed
among rubber. tin fibres and hides all OF whcl
are articles required by the busy manufacturers
who after supplying the constantly inc.sasins
creased their expectation II per cent. and VII
make the 1899 figures of export OF manufactures a
larger than those OF any preceding year.
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