Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-15
MANUFACTURES EXPORTED
DURING THE PRESENT YEAR THEY
WILL REACH $500, OOO, 900.
Steel Rails Averaging q Million Dol
lars n Month Sent AbrOad-Trade
for the Decade.

An illustration of the rapid growth Of our
| manufacturing interests is found in the fact
that the expectation of manufactures Of
metals during the year about to end will
| reach 5000 100000. The figures Of the treas
| TRY bureau of statistics for the ten months
ending November 1 show that more than
S1O0,OC0,O00 worth of iron and steel and
more than s5O,OO0,000 worth of copper had
been exported during the ten months. and
these figures, coupled with those relating
to the less important manufacturing metals
| and the articles manufactured from metals.
but not included under these general terms,
will bring the total for the year up to
fully $200.O0O.0O0. In steel rails the ex-
ports of the year will aggregate $12 ,0O0, 00O.
or an average Of million dollars a month,
while 1t was not until 1897 that the figures
for any entire year reached as much as
s1,O00U0. In the fiscal year 1890 the total
value of steel rails exported was 1915, COZ;
| in 1896 1T was only $4,000; in 1897, $500
900: in 1898. $4,5O0OOO; in the fiscal year 1899
S5.25OOOO. and in the calendar year 1900
will be fully $12OOO,0OO.
Nearly one million dollars worth of these
exports of steel rails in 1900 goes to Eu-
rope; another million dollars worth to Mex
leo; nearly 100000 to South America:
S4,OO0,O00 to British North America, and
two million dollars worth to Asia and
Oceania. American locomotives also go
along with the American steel rails, and
the total for the year seems likely to reach
about five million dollars in value. The
American rails and locomotives are in turn
accompanied by American cars. of which
the expectation for steam railways will
amount to 100000 during the year, and
for other railways more than a million
dollars. Add to this a proper share of the
S6,000O00 worth of electrical machinery
and $6.000,OOO worth of telegraph, telephone
and other electrical instruments and scien-
tic apparatus exported, and it will be seen
that for the construction and operation of
i1y,-or rtc;I do of fhn Tnit 10 Toe "a
manufacturers of this country will supply
during the year about to end fully $25,0O0,.
900 worth of material.
The rapid growth in the expectation OF
metals and those of which metals form a
large proportion in value is illustrated by
some figures regarding our export trade OF
the decade Manufactures of brass, for in
stance, of which the exports in 1890 amount
ed to S467, 313, were in the fiscal year 1900
81, S66. 727. Agricultural implements, includ-
ing plows, cultivators, mowers, reapers and
other machinery of this character, amount
ed in 1890 to s3,S591S4 and in the fiscal
year 1900 to s1G,094,S66. Pig iron exports
IN 1890 amounted to only 1S,45S tons, val
ued at $3O0,S32, while in the fiscal year 1900
they amounted to 10000 tons, valued at
s., 124, S53.
The bar iron expectations in 1890 amount
ed to 2.0S7,37G pounds and in the fiscal year
1900 to 1887 .435 pounds Wire expectations
in 1890 amounted to u. 529.962 pounds and
in 1900 amounted to 236, 81 SO6 pounds, the
average expectation for each month in 1900
being thus nearly equal to the annual eX-
portatons in 1880. In nails the exporta-
lions in 1890 amounted in round terms to
IL. CO0,000 pounds, and in 1900 to III, 49,, 461
pounds. The total iron and steel exports in
1890 amounted to SO. $40. Dos, and in the
fiscal year 1900 to 1921, SIS, 344, and in the
calendar year 1900 will reach $40 100000 in
value.
In copper the growth in expectations has
been equally striking. the total expectation
Of copper in the fiscal year 1890 being S.
;249 800 in value and in the fiscal year 1900
$57, s51 ,707. while in the calendar year 1900
it seems likely to considerably exceed
sfO ono 900