The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-22

n great uedl mas OeeH Sh4u dUOuL Ile
wonderful record this country has made
In tho past two years In exports to Eu-
ropeah countries, and little attention
has been paid to our growing trade with
Asia and oceanIca. 1t is pleasing there
fore, to note that the Pacific side of the
United States comes UP smiling with a
record comparatively as good as that
credited to the Atlantic side. y recent
statement of the government calls at
tentIon to the remarkable fact that our
exports to the far east in the fiscal year
which ends with the month OF June, viii
for the first time In our history exceed
800, 100000. In no part of the world has
our export trace grown with such
amazing rapldlty, with the single ex-
ceptlon OF Africa. In 1898 our total ex-
ports to all Asia and oceanica amount
ed to only s27,421.SSl, so that In the As
cal year now about to end they will be
about four times as great as those Of
eight years earlier. Imports from that
part Of the world are also growing rap
Idly because Of the large increase in the
share Of our sugar supply, which now
comes from the Islands OF the Pacific.
More than one-half the sugar import
ed into the United States now comes
from the East Indies and Hawaiian Is
lands. OF the 2.S9lSO6.55s pounds I'M
ported into the United States in the
nine months ending with March, 1900,
1858, 1851 pounds came from the East
Indies and the Philippine and Hawaiian
Islands; the amount from the Fast In
dies alone being 1,143O25.I46 pounds;
from the Hawaiian Islands $50. S99, 400
pounds and from the Philippines 49,
49O,542. The quantity imported from
the Philippines In the nine months end
Ing with March, 1900, is three times as
much as in the corresponding months OF
1898, and from the East Indies 1t Is two
and one-half times as much as in the
corresponding period Of 1898
The growth in exports to Asia and
oceanIca is chiefly in cotton. bread
stuffs, provisions and manufacturers.
Exports OF agricultural machinery to
British Australasia in the nine months
ending with March. 1900. were S6O9323,
against S346,5SO in the corresponding
months OF 1898. Exports Of flour to
China in the nine months ending with
March. 1900. was 4s.96l barrels against
1855 barrels in the same months Of
1898, to Japan 1880 barrels against
1O7,4Ol barrels in the same months OF
1898, and to Hong Kong 1,OO9,24s barrels
against 647.6Ss barrels in the same
months OF 1928. Carriages and cars to
Australia amounted to S4l2,254 against
s251, 500 in the corresponding months Of
1898; cotton cloth to China In the nine
months ending with March, 1900. was
1866 $50, 255 yards against 77.99O676 yards
in the corresponding months OF 1898.
Raw cotton exported to Japan amount
ed in the nine months ending with
March, 1900. to Sll,51796S as against S5.-
$40 Il in the same months Of 1898
Builders hardware exported to Asia
and oceanlca In the nine monthH ending
with March, 1900, amounted to'Sl, $4,000.
an Increase OF 30 per cent over the same
months OF 1898, while boots and shoes
to Asia and ocennlca in the nine months
ending with March, 1900. reached nearly
100000 against quarter of a million
in the same months OF 1898.