The evening times., 1900-09-12

as Great - in Some Previous Sim
liar Periods, the Value of the
Product Is the Largest in History
Returns of the August foreign trade of
the country are beginning to come in. The
first preliminary report of the Treasury
Bureau OF Statistics. just issued, giving
the exports during the month, of bTead-
stuffs, provisions, cotton, and mineral oils,
shows that the total export figures for the
month and for the year to date will keep
up the record of being the largest in his
tory.
The Treasury has adopted the custom of
giving the country at an early date each
month the export figures OF these four
chief classes OF goods for the preceding
month They are watched for with much
interest by all who interested in trade
and financial matters. These classes u5u-
ally furnish a fairly accurate index OF the
entire. exports, though during the past yeaf
the increasing Importance of the export OF
manufactured goods has somewhat de-
stroyed the former proportions.
The total exports OF all these classes in
August, was S51, ,222, ,249. The total for the
eight months of the year to date was $751;
2Sg, 1913. The figures for the longer period
arc the largest on record, the nearest APP
proach being $3.50, $50, IIS in 1898. The Au-
gust figures alone are somewhat less than
those for last year, but much larger than
for any previous year The exports during
August 1899, were $54,111.512
The falling of of August exports COM
pared with last year is due entirely to the
much smaller exports of grain this year.
y year ago there We're immense shipments
of grain in August that month being, IN
fact, the largest of the year, very un-
usual thing. The farmers began to see
that they had plenty Of grain aud the price
OF wheat was high. They pushed forward
their crops TO market rapidly. The total
export OF bT6adstUffS in august, 1899, was
$-5,5SU,3I0, the largest on record. The fig
ures for August. 1906, were only $19, sos, $50,
or $6.UCg, eco less. The export of bread
stuffs during the entire eight months Of
the year TO Gate is also less than 1t was
last year, the comparative figures being
| $153, l64 342 for this year, against S167,644,-
160 for last year
In the next most important class OF eX-
ports provisions, the present years figures
are the best on record. The report divides
this group into ''cattIe and hogs" and
| provisions the latter including meats,
| lard. and other animal food products. The
August exports of provisions" were S16,-
Q
! These figures compare with $15,S97 1s5 and
$2,04S, 659 for August, 1899. In earlier
years the figures were-even smaller
The total exports OF provisions for the
! eight months were $113. .01S. .235, compared
! with SIP ,S11, ,GSS in 1899, the best previous
! year.
| The exports of cattle and hogs for the
| eight months were 500, ,941, $50. or sOmewha,
! less than in other recent years.
The cotton statistics for the month and
! for the year to date are much the most
/ gratifying made in the report. 1t is seen
! that while the export in bulk was not uha
/ largest on record the total amount obtain
| ed for it was far larger than ever before
/ The same is true in an even more strik-
! ing way of the cotton export OF the yeaE
! to date
! The August cotton figures were 10T. 444
/ bales, containing 81 -023, ,2G4 pounds, of a
! value of $5,242 1G3- In August, 1899 the
| amount Of cotton exported was 116.5f9
! bales containing IS. 555, $50 pounds, dis
/ tinct falling OFF in bulk, but the price OBJ
/ tanned was only S3,612, ,975. The same is
| true OF other recent Augusts in about the
| same ratio.
| The total exports Of cotton in 1860 TO
! date have been 3,342, ,504 bales. containing
t 1,G9I. 159, ,O19 pounds. This amount was ex-
! ceeded slightly in 1898 and the figures for
! 1899 and for 1895 I.ere nearly as large. The
J
| the past year makes the cash value Of the
| exports for this year far in excess of aEy
| peTvious year. The price paid by Europe
! and the remainder Of the world for the
| cotton exported by America so far his
| year, has been $147, 700 $50. In 1898, the
| figures ran up 10 $113,5 600 or approx
| mately $50 000, 600 less In no other yea
| did the value of the cotton exports reach
| $100, COO 600 or within $50 00G 600 OF the
! present years figures.
| People who understand the cotton stu
| alton this year say that the figures for
| the remainder of 1900 Will be even more
| gratifying than those to date. 1t Will be
/ seen that the average price of the cottor
! exported to date this year is about 81
| cents pounds, or about $44 a bale. The
! price paid in the first eight months OF 1S9.
was about 6.1 cents a pound, or about $50
| bale. Estimates for the remainder o1
| the year vary all the way from cents tC
| y cents a pound.
! Tie exports Of mineral oils in August
| were 102, ,998, ,93S gallons, valued at ST. 303,-
| ia, the best figures ever recorded for the
| month. The exports during the first eight
| months of the year were 63S, ,663, ,353 gal
| Ions, valued at $50 464 10, also far larger
| than ever before The exports in the
| same month last year were only $39. .2S3,-
| 1913, and in no previous year were they SO
much as SAC, COO, OG0