The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-10
Growing Trade With
New Dependencies
Special Correspondence.

special Correspondence.
Washington, Dec s.
- XPOllTS from the United states to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine, Hawaiian
- AMI Samoan Islands will aggregate s5o,-
UU,0Oc in the year 1900, against sll ,0O0OtO
in 1880. SlO,OOO,OOO IN 1S!S, and Sl1,OOO.OO0 IN
lsO' This enormous growth IS shared by each
Of the islands named but Is especially apparent IN
the ease of Porto Rico. to which the eSport5
IN the year 1900 under the new Porto Ricun act
will show an increase OF about 80 per cent. ms
compared with last year. and 100 per cent as
compared with preceding years The above hg-
ures are necessarily estimates hr as they re-
late to November and Dee cmbcr of the present
year, but study oi the actual figures of the
preceding months Of 1914 and the corresponding
months Of 1899 and ls9s i,lsiiics an estimate
which brings the exports to Porto Rico in the
calendar year 1900 up to $5,4O0,OOO; to Cubi,
$2d,OOO,OOO; to the Philippines, $s,5OoOoO; to
the Hawaiian Islands, Sl5.0O0,0OO and to the
Samoan Islands and Guam, S20OOOO, making the
grand total of SjO,lOO.OOo of exports to these
islands in 1900 compared with s41,5sl,0A in
1899, $40. .I.342 in 1888, and SlG,022,3n5 in 1877.
In every case our exports to these islands in
the year 1900 will exceed those in preceding
years. To Cuba the exports Of the year will be
double the average annual exports to that island.
except during the fiscal years 1892, 1893 and
1894. when the reciprocity treaty with Spain
largely increased our sales TO that island. TO
Porto Rico the exports OF the year will he
double those of any preceding year except 1890
and will exceed that year by so per cent. To
the Hawaiian islands, estimating figures Of the
closing months of the year upon those of the
earlier months and other obtanablc data, the
exports of the year more than double those
OF any preceding year except 1899. To the
Philippines the figures for 1900 will be double
those of 1890 and more than 10 times the high
est figure in any earlier year. To the Samoan
Islands the total will he double that of any
preceding year. Comparing our exports to the
islands above mentioned with those in the great
reciprocity year. 1893. when exports to Cuba
were double those of years Immediately prcced-
ing the reciprocity act, il will be seen that o''r
total in 1900 greatly exceeds that of the great
est OF the reciprocity years. The total exports
~ Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian and
Philippine islands in 1909 were s2s,0oI,0i7, and
as above indicated, will in 1000 amount TO s5o,-
100000 in round terms.
The following table shows the total exports
from the United States to Cuba, Porto Rico,
and the Hawaiian Philippine and Samoan Islands
in each year since 1897, the figures for Novem-
her and December. 1900, being estimatcd:
1897 ....................... Sl6o22.3O3
ls!S ........................ lo''Il,3l2
lNf' ..'...''.' @i'o''o't
l!OO' trstimated) .................... 5o,lVoVoo
November and December.
The following table shows the imports front,
and exports to Porto Rico in each year, begin
! ming with 1894. It will he that the en-
ports to the island have enormously increased III
| 1900 compared with any preceding year and
especially with the years preceding 1900, the in
| crease being so per cent. as compared with 1889,
| and more than 100 per cent compared with
| the average year prior to that timc
| Imports from Exports Ia