The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-27
MACHINERY EXPORTS.

Exports of American tools and machinery do
not show the shrinkage in volume which recent
reports would indicate. Some concern has been
expressed by leading export houses by reason Of
a falling of in foreign orders due to the high
prices of iron and steel. In this connection it
will be interesting to note that the exports Of
builders hardware saws and tools during the
fiscal year 1900 were the largest in the history OF
our export trade being S9,G4Gm7. against 81, ,s42,-
372 in 1892 So, 627 466 in 1857, and S5,5O9lSs in
1896, prior to which year the exports in this line
had never aggregated so much as s., 100000 In
exports of sewing machines, typewritcrs cleo
trical and other intricate machinery there are
also gratifying increases. Comparing the export
figures of the fiscal year just ended with those
of ls9s and 1899, it is found that sewing ma.
chimes increased from s3l3G,3G4 in 1895 and S..
26i,344 in 1899 to Si.5iO.si2 in 1900; electrical
machinery, from S20j2, 5G4 in 1898 and S2 1876 10
in 1899 to Si,32s,9l7 in 1900; locomotive engines
from S3.SS3,7l9 in lS9s to 81, 500, IO3 in 1900;
typewriters from 81 902, 1853 in 1895 to Sc Gg7 5H
in 1900; Woodworking machinery, from S4
GlS,GS3 in 1898 to S7l9339O in l9OO and all other
machinery, from slSS3 $50 in 1898 to S2l 9l3 3O2
While our chief market for machinery is still
to be found in European countries, an increasing
proportion is being sold in the far east especially
in British Australasia Japan and India. in ls95
our exports Of builders hardware and tools 10
British Australasia amounted to SSH 1886, In 1900
they aggregate $l,32j,7 ,7o3; in 1s0s our exports
ir this line to japan were $4,000, while in 1901
they were Sl0c ,2jl. Our exports of typewritcrs
to British Australasia in ls9s amounted to $50,
039 while in the fiscal year 1900 they were SlOl,
COZ; TO Japan the exports Of typewriters in 1885
amounted TO but S4,222; in 1899 they had in.
creased to S12G2, and in 1900 to Sl6,57g Of
which sum 80, ,2ll were exported during the month
Of June alone, thus foreCasting in some degree
| the possibilities Of future development in this
| article of export. Commenting upon the increase
| in exports OF typewriters, a prominent American
manufacturer is quoted by the New York Com
mercia saying:
| THE demand for American typowrtcrs was
never greater, and our machines are pretty good
| globc-trotters. We have just made a shipment
| to Puntas Arenas, on the Straits Of Magellan, at
| the extreme southern point Of South Amerca, ant
| another lot Of typewTters has been sent north
| to Nladiyostock, Russia, for the of the i'm
| peral government. Many of the missionaries ant
foreign business men in China use our machines
and nearly every American regiment in the Phil
ippines has from three 10 five machines; and a.
business increases at Manila under American
auspices, there will be a big demand for type
writer's The typewriter has become well Eigl
universal in its use, and is found in all the larg
business houses in the principal cities Of th
world, and its keyboard represents nearly al
languages. TIE exceptions are the japanese AM
Chinese. As their characters are upright AM
composed Of many hundred figures or signs /
seems practically impossible to produce them o.
the typewrter's keyboard"
O.
The following table shows the exports Of build
crs' tools and hardware, sewing machines an
typewriters from the United States in each fs
cal year from 1890 10 1900, The exports Of type
writers cannot be separately shown for the year
prior to 1897, as prior to 1897 typewriters wcr
published in the reports Of the treasury burea
OF statistics under the general head, "machinery
not elsewhere specified"