The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-02-07
Trade Good lin 1sog.

WASHINGTON, F,EB. G-Amcricau COM
merce with the islands and countries OF
the Pacific shows greater gain in the
year 1899 than that with any other part
OF the world. our total export increased
twenty million Goiiars and our exports TO
Asia ara Ocen.ca alone increased over
nineteen million dollars. our total imports
increased i3; million dollars. forty-eight
millions of this increase was from Asia
and Oceanica Exports to Asia and Ocean
sea increased twenty-seven per cent.
while imports from that part of the
part o. the world Increased forty per cent.
or this increase OF twenty million dol
lars In exports to Asia and Oceanica.
over SIX millions Went to British Austria
aslia, four million to the Hawaiian isl.
ands, four milio ninto China. and the re-
mainder distributed TO the various
countries and islands Of that part OF the
Western Pacific While Of the imports
from Asia and Oceanica. twelve millions
were from the Dutch East indies. seven
million from China .and six million from
Hawaii
or the increase in exports, the large
proportion was IN cotton cotton goods.
AAlHNAAAlflN NItA NliiNl AitiiNlaflNiFN OF
iron and steel The Increase IN our ex-
ports 20 China was largely I'm manufac-
lures Of cotton. and that to the Hawaiian
islands and Australia. manufactures Of
All kinds. the large proportion however.
being machinery general manufactures
OF iron and steel. or che increase oe forty
six million in imports, from the countries
of the Pacific, raw silk. tin. fiber, and SUI
gar were the most important items From
japan. the importatons Of raw silk in
creased six million dollars. and there was
also a considerable Increase I'm mating;
from the great tin mines Of the Straits
Settlements there was an increase Of five
million dollars worth of pig tin for use in
manufacturing tin plates and from Brit
ish East Indies there was an increase Of
iute hagging and other productions OF
this character; from China, there was an
increase Of over five millions I'm raw silk
for use In manufacturing: from the Phil
ippines. an increase an hemp and other
articles, and from the Hawaiian islands
small increase I'm sugar; while the most
important and suggestive increase from
the Pacific countries Is that Of sugar
from the East Indies, .hieny the Dutch
Eas Indies. which amounted In the year
just ended to 1.4S5. AGO. $40 pounds against
S30.65719f pounds in 1898 and 536, 227 703
pounds in 1897 the value OF the sugar i'm
ported from the East Indies In 1899 being
SEQ 63G 469. against SIG .642 in 1898. md So
909,l94. in 1897.
This rapid increase OF our imports from
the Dutch East Indies suggest a new
gafl fsI,
20 that particular spot very light up to
the present time. The French consul at
Batavia, Java in report which has just
reached the treasury bureau OF stats-
tics suggests that the Dutch East Indies
offer an especially fertile field for those
desiring 10 make sales Of agricultural
machinery and implements which at pre-
sent, he says are Of extremely primal
tive character In those islands. Most Of
the implements used In small farming
come from Germany and England. and
are in many particulars unsatisfactory;
the handles of the s'ckles are not properly
fastened TO the blade, while agricultural
machinery. properly so-called, including
machinery for planting, reaping, binding
and threshing, are practically unknown.
Even sugar cane plantations have as yet
made little progress in the adoption of
modern machinery. The difficulties
which have been encountered In attempts
10 Introduce agricultural machinery are;
first the cheapness Of manual labor; sec
ond, the climatic conditions under which
articles OF iron and steel grow rusy and
unfit for use in a short time II exposed
TO the open air and. third. the fact that
the white ant destroys near'.- all kinds OF
wook except teat which Is therefore nee
essarily used in the construction OF ma
chlnery for use in the island The fact,
however that there are in lava and
Sumatra 230 sugar Factories which supply
one-third NJ the sugar imported into the
United States and that total imports OF
the Dutch East Indies agerage siNty-eight
million dollars and our own exports 10
them less than two million dollars an
nlally, while our import from them In
1899 were over thirty-two millions, sug-
gests valuable and important trade possi-
bflities in that direction II properly cul-
tivated.
AT LAST CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE
a SENATOR AFTER ONE YEAR
DEADLOCK.
SACRAMENTO CAL. FEB. G.--Today's
session OF the legislature was devoted to
routine work A secret needing Of the
purns forces was held for the purpose OK