Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
FORTY MILLION IN A MONTH.

An exportation of $40,000,000 worth
of manufactures in thirty days is q
record unparalleled for American man.
ufacturers. That is the record for the
month of April, 1900. The details OF
the April exportations-just completed
by the treasury bureau of statistics
chow that the expectation of manufac-
lures during that month were by far
the greatest of any month in our his
tory and within a fraction OF $4,000
20. This gives assurance that the ex-
IT'S of the fiscal year which ends
with June will considerably exceed
( $400,0O0,O00 and be nearly three times
as much as decade ago. This phenom-
email increase in expectation of manu-
features is especially striking when
compared with the progress made by
\ European nations, our rivals in the at
tempt to supply the worlds market
with manufactured goods. Great Bri-
3tain's exports of manufactures show
but slight increase since 1890, and an
examination of the export record of
the principal European countries fails
TO disclose an instance in which the in
crease has been as much as 25 per cent,
while that of the United States, mean
while, has been more than $50 per cent.
An examination of the details of our
own expectation of manufactures
shows that it is in the production, man
ufacture and expectation of metals
that we seem to excel. The history of
nations and peoples shows that great
groups of people frequently excel in
certain Industries, and the growth of
our expectation, as well as our domes-
tic production of manufactures, seems
to point to metals as our most success
1uls line of work, especially at the pres
ent time. In 1889, manufactures of
! metals formed less than 20 per cent of
our total expectation of manufactures,
and in 1900 will be about As per cent
OF our exports of manufactures. The
increase In expectation of metals and
manufactures thereof in the decade
L 1889-1898 was 339 per cent, while the
increase in the expectation of all man
Ifactures in that time was but 10 per
cent, and the increase in manufactures
/. other than those of metal during that
{ time was but IS per cent. In this
4 statement OF the expectation of manu-
features of metals, only those articles
composed exclusively of metals are in
cluded; those made up in part of met
ais, such as railway cars, agricultural
machinery, etc, being included in the
other manufactures. The rapid in
crease in the expectation Of manufac-
4 lures OF metals is shown by the fact
that the exports of brass and manu-
I features thereof in 1889 were but 1921
1877, and in 1900 will reach $1,70O, 900;
instruments for scientific pur-
poses increased from $1,o3s, 1913
to $s,77O,sO3, and in the year
about to end will reach nearly $6,OOO,-
4 600; copper and its manufactures,
which amounted in 1889 to $2,34s, 954,
will be more than $5O,OOO,OOO in 1900;
iron and steel increased from SOL 1885,
: OFT, In 1889, to $70,406, 1856, in 1898,
while in the fiscal year 1900 it will ex-
coed 800, 100000.
Another interesting fact developed
!, by the examination Of the figures is
that the European countries, in which
manufactures have been long estab-
lished, furnish as satisfactory market
\ for our manufactured gods as do the
countries where manufacturing has
not yet been largely developed. In
reapers and mowers, clocks and watch-
es, sewing machines, bicycles, and the
various manufactures of iron and steel,