The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26
BIGEXPORTS Of TOOLS
Largest OutgO on Record Shown
For Past Year.
MACHINES ARE WANTED
BUILDERS HARDWARE AND
TYPEWRITERS IN DEMAND.
Special Correspondence

Washington, Aug. 22.-Exports of
American tools and machinery do not
show the shrinkage in volume which
recent reports would indicate. Some
concern has been expressed by leading.
export houses by reason of a falling off
IN foreign orders, due to the high prices
OF iron and steel. In this connection It
VIII be interesting to note that the ex-
ports OF builders hardware, saws and
tools during the fiscal year 1900. were
the biggest in the history of our export
trade. being $685. OH. against S7.S42,372
in 1899, S6,627, 466 in 1857, and So, sos, 1SS
IN 1895. prior to which year the exports
IN this line had never aggregated so
much as 5000, 600. In exports of sew
ing machines, typewriters. electrical
and other intricate machinery, there
are also gratifying increases. Compar-
ing the export figures of the fiscal year
Just ended with those of 1898 and 1899,
1t is found that sewing machines in
creased from SO, 136, 1854 in 1888, and So
264,344 in 1899, to 81, $40, S42 in 1900; cleo
trlcal machinery from S2.052, 564 in 1898.
and 81, 736, 10 in 1899, 10 S4,32S, 917 in 1900:
locomotive engines, from $3,SS3, 719 in
1888, to 1882, 403 in 1900; typewriters
from 1902, 453 in 1855. to S2.697. 544 In
l9UO; metal working machinery, from
$4,6lS,6S3 in 1898, to $7,Iy5, $50 in 1900;
and all other machinery, from $13, 1885,
$50 in 1898, to $21, 913, 2O2 in 1900.
Machinery Sold In Far East.
While our chief market for machin-
cry is still to be found in European
countries, an increasing proportion is
being sold in the far east, especially
IN British Australasia, Japan and In
dla. IN 1898 exports of builders
hardware and tools to British Austria
iasia amounted to S577, $50, in 1900 they
aggregated S1,325, 1913; in 1898 our ex-
ports in this line TO Japan were SIG, 500,
while in 1900 they were $106, PSI. Our
exports of typewriterS to British Aus
tralasia in 1898 amounted to $60. 039,
While in the fiscal year 1900 they were
SI0l, COZ; TO Japan the exports of type
writer's in 1898 amounted to but $4,220:
in 1899 they had increased to $7.262, and
in 1900 to $16,579, of which sum S2,2ii
were exported during the month of
June alone, thus ~fOrecasting in some
degree the possibilities of future devel-
opment in this article of export.
Big Demand For Typewriters.
Commenting upon the increase in ex-
ports of typewriters, a prominent
American manufacturer is quoted by
he New York Commercial as saying:
The demand for American type
writer's was lever greater, and cur ma
chimes are pretty good globe-trOtterS.
We have just made d shipment to
PuntaS Arenas, on the Straits of Ma
Sellan, at the extreme southern point
of South America, and another lot of
typewriters has been SEM north to
Nladivos.ock, Russia, for the use of the
imperial government. Many of the
missionaries and foreign business men
in China use u machines, and nearly
every American regiment in the Phil
lpplnes has from three to five ma
chimes; and as business increases at
Manila under American auspices. there
will be a big demand for typewriters.
The typewriter has become Well-nigh
universal in its use, and is found in all
the large business houses in the prin-
cipal cities of the world. and its key
board represents nearly all languages.
The exceptions are the Japanese and
Chinese. AS their characters are IN
right and composed of many hundred
figures or signs it seems practically i'm