The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-05
FOREIGN COMMERCE eROHS
THE PRESENT YEAR WILL ne
MORE REsAakABLE THAN lsss.
- Far Experts Have Exeeeaea the
Figures Of Last Year ~ slO.pb0.-
600. xotvvfsAsta nAing Low Expors
Prices Of Cosson ana BreaAssuRs.
wAsHrNGro

WASHINGTON. June 4--oar foreign
commerce in the fiscal year lsN viii 10
even Enesre remarkable than that Of tie
wonderful year iNs. Our exports In ISIS
averaged more than $50. 0s,oa per month.
and were nearly Ss6 %. 90 greater thaa
Those os any preceding year in our mis-
tory. And this happened when the whole
world. aside from the United States was
short In brsadstuds and Was locking 10
tAe United States with an unusually good
erog fer Its supply. In isee, with the world
generally web supplied with IT'S own
nreadssuffs. the United States continues 10
export at tho rate OF more than Sia0.sup Go
a month. and up TO this time has exceed
Ell ny $io.00,V0 the wonderful figures Of
the corresponding month OF last year.
Tnsa Is the more remarkable because the
export price Of wheat fs now e cents per
bushels against 81 = year ago. and during
thu e.iire ten months has averaged out
. cents per busheiA against an average
of % sents in the corresponding months
OF last: year. while cotton during the ten
months has averags:l but 81 cents yer
poInd. against an average Of practically
cents IN the corresponding months Of las:
year Tyus the United States, In the face
OF the reduced foreign demand for bread
stuffs ald cotton, dui to the enormous
worlds supply Of those articles. has. dur
fng the ten months OF the fiscal year lsgs,
exceeded her exports in the ten months
OF Isss. !.
This remarkable achievement of keeping
Up the record OF total exports In the face
of the tremendous fall in value o. bread
sti,frs and cot,ors is due 10 the great sue
cess OF American manufacturers in for
eign fields. Tl!e detailed figures of ths
treas Ty bureas Of statistics. covering the
ten months enAinS with April. 1853, show
that the exports Of manufactures in those
ten months heye oeen Sss5.s7ssD, against
VA. 1900 In tine corresponding months OF
last year, an increase Of Il per GENT. while
the exports GOT products of agriculture
were ssT.Ss2.s45 against $7I9.os2, S5s. a de-
crease of nearly per cent. Thus agri-
culture mas sost 81. 11o.0D in the years ex-
ports. whiiss manufactures nave gained
$n.vV.Do.
Cariousiy the largest increase In exports
OF manufactures is In iron and steel and
manufactures thereof. The recent advance
In prices OF iron and steel led many peo-
pie 10 believe that cur exports in those
lines would fall OF, but Ii appears that
prices abroad have advanced in about the
same proportion as in the United States,
and that consequently the increase in
price rather increased the number of dol
lars worth of material exported. At
least the figures OF the treasury bureau
of statistics show that In the ten months
ending with April. 1892 the exports OF
iron and steel and manufactures thereof
have amounted to Es.esl,7S6. against $56.-
2cs.iSo Ia the corresponding ten months Of
1888, $tsJss.iiS in the corresponding months
OF 1897 and So ,36o,s4 In the ten months OF
1886. Thus exports OF iron and steel have
increased IS per cent. In the past year.
and naye considerably more than doubled
In four Years. Even In the month Of April
In the face OF the higher prices, the ex-
ports OF iron and steel and manufactures
thereof amounted 10 $9.0ss. Isl, against
-. 5oo.966 in the corresponding months Of
last year. Manufactures OF cotton are also
showing remarkable Increase In 1883
over those of 1925. The number OF yards
OF cotton cloth exported In the ten months
ending with April is $50 co SCI agains,
ai7. 10 In the corresponding months Of
last year. an increase Of more than 50 per
cent. though the price averaged slightly
lees. being SO cents per yard in the ten
months of 1893. against 80 cents In the ten
months Of 1895. The bulk of the increase
of exports OF cotton cloth is TO China
which took from us in the past ten months
Ill 7ss yards. against Ss.s4i 36s In the
corresponding months OF last year. Other
lines Of manufactures also show crafty
ing gains Agricultural implements. for
instance, increased from S5,i5s,oa In ten
months of 1855 - S. s5i.l5i in 1899 an in
crease or considerably more than 50 per
cent. Manufactures of copper show an in
crease OF s4.see. 600 In the ten months over
the corresponding months Of last year
Instruments and apparatus for scientific
purposes increased 20 per cent. amounting
20 over s., 5o,aco in the ten months juss
ended Vegetable oils show an increase OF
more than q per cent and amount in the
ten months 10 nearly SlI .9oea0o, and there
IS scarcely an instance OF consequence In
which manufactures show falling of
the only marked example being I'm refined
mineral oils. which have fallen ieSs than
seMa..s below the figures of last year.
Even in provisions there has been
marked Increase in expectation. despite
the fear that the events OF the past few
months might render certain classes Of
our provisions unpopular in foreign mar.
kels, the total value OF provisions ex-
ported amounting IN the ten months OF
fs,s 20 slss.TsS .ss. against siss 4os ssss In the
corresponding months OF iSS. and $ifi.-
tes7s5 in the corresponding months Of 1891.
while in canned beef alone the exports Of
the year show a slight gain over the cor
responding months OF last year. and In
the month Of April the exports of canned
beef we're more than 800 pounds In Ell.
cess Of those OF April. lsss.
The single class ar our expectations
which shows marked falling OF is. as
has already been painted out agricultural
products ard this reduction is due al
mast entirely 10 reduction IN values nos
quantities While the value Of wheat
eNysrtei In the ten months Of ls<s was
tla, S1ti7.s7s against siIts.S IS In the
corresponding months Of the preceding IS.
cal year the number ~ bushels exported
IN the ten months Of is@ IS actually great
ar than that u the corresponding months
az sSas being fer the ten months of 1919
i5S5sT $50 against les So in tae ten
months 81 tSe. TIE expectations of coin
have sAllcn OF about asese.e.a bushels.
sa4xinx that foreign countries still draw
upon lis tor corn only in proper ton To the
scarcity az other hTeaaxtefrs IN their own
markets. though the fact that In the face
81 TIRE ample supply ef areadstugs afroaf
ear sases Of corn IN the past ten months
have Amounted 20 "a sss go bushels shows
TIA; fhis class ~ oar productions has
gainsf - refrnansSs fnofhcsa abroad and
eScsesastv IN Europe which took trs tsss se.a