The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-19

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Taking UP the cotton and ~ 1eooe
features. chinn's principal impost ~
is fund that the United States = m111
a gain 40 much greater than ito 49,
competition. England. that - the
ratio Of increase ~ Will BE- only =
years until this nation takes hret ~
England. including India, IN iM psuk
China s1s. SSs BIZ worth IL piAin Etay e
white goods. ss.ie6.IG worth 81 f1o
goods. 81, ss4. 100 worth OF yarn. anA s
s5S worth OF thread. n total 81
or 7s.s per cent. OF the plain eray g.
white goods, and 100 per cent ps ~
othcrs. OF all Chinns inports q ~
duct. The share OF the United MtneM
this trnfYic was E.3al.35t worth. - -
per cent. OF the total. The Dutch egpess
ed eI7s.iit worth OF plain cray a. Aea
gooda. by 1897. in just ten yeese = es
alton. the exports Of British gr>y eeees
had fallen or 10 such am extent that -
was noted decrease In the plain wAl
and gray product TO tina extent of -
cent, the Chinese imports In I'M 81
there being SIG, ss7, TBS: while the Hml1ea
States sent ssbco s'l2 worth, m incf4
OF sat tier cent. The Dutch dr0pps4 NJ
si2s .sf2. a falling an ~ "a per cents eess
japan came In with ssiesSs worth "a
fancy goods. hawcvsr. England expAne
10 s,las, si2. amounting to af.7i per fex.gs
and Japan also sent ssl.nSi wnyth q
class OF goods English aain&d N s
cent. I'm yarn. the actual exp0f3e
so nsT 30 aud isess per cent. 10 thss,A
exporting 7s.i6i worth. Iapan's snsn
the yarn trade was H.sf2fss worth =
1897 Rritaln's share Of the trade - NJ {
goods had dropped 90 ss.st per cent. q
total. decrease of Ii2s per cent.
the United States jumped up 70 -
cent. a gain Of 1898 per cent. Nos
standing the growth Of hrifsiu ~ -
yarn trade, the lnrosds ~ Jspan 49,
snffeisnt to reduce the Comparative -
of the former 20 the extent 81 @s1N
cent.
Japan furnishes China with most q u
fish consumed there. sending 81 ssm 49,
OF t.g1eo worth year. while ~ Y.
81 States exports ~ this pFtafart = -
nation have not yet sFnounxa
much as % 90 in a year,
In machinery ard iron and Hfsh
nation now has an important paft 49, v. ~
1870 having exported 70 china 49, III
worth. amounting % three times tr9 -
ports ~ isas, four times shoNs y 20
seventeen times those ~ 1865, assa sNewt
six times ,fsose ~ 1898. The espeFn
machinery and niIlwerk ~ Britasa z
China are showing decrease thai 49, $50
fii for the future In that branch q hes-s
trade. The lnss of iws, when rpnpsrs
with tho previous year. Hfnounte5 n
per cant. and sigit mare ~iseu re
parlsons are taken further tark
is also falling on In this trade. thefs 49,.
Ing been not single year Of saih ~.
1896 to 1865 italy also shows -.
though the trade IL stiil lees than I.
or ts ho9 q year The trade ~ copgsx ~
manufacture 81 japan wish az
amount 10 $50 no year. and Il y 49,. NJ
nv Increasing Germany IL siyoppinA ~
further behind. LOSING In isyl y Fsr -
Of her trade tn copper Manufacturer, e w
~ 100 per cent. In iron prcanstes
gaining only slightly In making
raiivwiy rapid strides in iron ans -
and their manufactures, during - ss. u
Ing a total expectation &c China % 49, -.
GO, Or doubIe that Of the previous -
and q per cent. more than IRE
year of ixs. when the endins a tns "
with Japan caused china to MAKE -
purchases abroad,
Most ~ the matches used by cninA -
furnished by Japan. -
Ths United Slater and Russia are -
In the Kerosene trade. and this coanttl
has made such gains thar the othss ~
little hope Of ever getting even
trade Of America IN this product has H8'
than doubled IN the last ten years,
The United states and Japan -
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