Arizona republican., 1900-08-03
OUR TRADE ABROAD
Four Startling Facts Disclosed
 bya Treasury Report
The Extraordinary Growth of Ex- ports-The Trade With the New Insular Possessions and Increase of the Worlds Gold Production

Washington, Aug. 2.-(Special.) )-The annual report of the chief of the treas ury bureau of statistics upon the for eign commerce of the United States during the year ending June 30, 1900 has been completed and will form part of the June Summary of Commerce and Finance. which will make it's appear ance during the coming week. The re- port shows the total imports of mer- chandise during the year were $S49, 714.- 670; the total exports $1, ,394 1S6. .311. The principal features of the report, omit ting the statistical tables, are as fol- lows:
 Four great facts characterize the for eign commerce of the United States in 1900, the closing year of the decade and century:
 First-The total commerce of the year increases by $319, ,729, ,25O that of any preceding year, and for the first time in our history exceeds $2, ,OOO. .O0O. .OOO.
 Second-The exports exceed those of any preceding year, and have been more widely distributed throughout the world than ever before
 Third - Manufacturers materials were more freely imported than ever before and formed a larger share of the total imports than on any former oc- casion.
 tourth-Manufactur articles were more freely exported than ever before and formed a larger share of the total exports than on any former occasion.
 In exports every great class of arti- cles showed a larger total than in the preceding year; in imports every class except manufacturers materials. showed a smaller per centage of the total than in the preceding year. while manufacturers materials showed a much larger total and larger per cent age of the grand total than in any former year.
 MANUFA ACTURERS MATERIALS
 Two of the five great classes of inn ports are exclusively manufacturers materials. The first of these. articles in crude condition which enter into the various processes of domestic in- dustry," includes, and is chiefly made up of manufactured fibers, raw silk. wool, crude india rubber. hides and
 
 The second. articles wholly or parti- a!ly manufactured for use as materials in manufacturing includes wood. leather, furs, cement, yarns, oils, dyes and dyewoods, and certain chemicals The other three classes of imports are foodstuffs, articles manufactured ready fer consumption, and articles of volun- tary use, luXries, etc. Of the two classes designated as manufacturers articles, that which includes only ar ticles in a crude condition, is by far the largest. being. in 1900, ,$3O2 264. 1O6. against $222, ,657, ,774 in 1899. or nearly 40 per cent greater than in any preced- ing year; while the class which includes articles wholly or partially manufac- tured for use in manufacturing amounts to SSS, 433, ,549, against S9S, 75S.- 9O3 in 1893, and s109, ,132 526 in 1891. The share which articles in a crude condi- ton for use in manufacturing form of the total imports is constantly increas- ing and in the year just ended formed by far the largest total and largest percentage of the grand total in the history of our foreign commerce. Of the total imports of the year, manufac- turers' materials, including the two classes above named, show an increase of $l07 ,69S over those of the preced- ing year. while the other three classes, foodstuffs, manufactures, and luxuries. show an increase of but $45, ,190. .4S3 over the preceding year, thus showing that over two-thirds of the increased impor- tations of the year are in manufactur- CTS materials.
 GROWTH IN EXPORTS.
 While Manufacturers materials show