Arizona republican., 1900-08-28
OUR TRADE IN TOOLS
Gratifying Increase in Exports
 of Machinery
The Widening Market of the Ameri- can Typewriters Whose Key Board Is Made to Fit All Languages But Japanese and Chinese.

Washington, Aug. 27.-(SpeciaD.- ports 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 will be interesting to note that the exports of builders hardware, saws and tools during the fiscal year l9OO were the largest in the history of our export trade, being $9,646, ,017, against $7,S42. 372 in 1899. $6,627 466 in 1897, and $5, 509, 1SS in 1896. prior to which year the exports in this line had never aggregated so much as 8 900. .OOO In ex- ports of sewing machines. typewriters electrical and other intricate machinery there are also gratifying increases. Comparing the export figures of the fls- cal year just ended with those Os 1898 and 1899. it is found that sewing ma chimes increased from $3, 136, ,364 in 1898 and $3,264, ,344 in 1899 to $4 $40, SAP in 1900: electrical machinery from $2.O52. .564 ia 1898 and $2, ,7$6 11O in 1899 to $4, S2S 917 in 1900; locomotive engines, from S, ,SS2, T? in 1898 to $5.592, 4O3 in 1900; type writers from $1,902, 153 in 1898 to S2, ,697, ,544 in 1900; metal working machinery, from $4,61S, 6S3 in 1898 to $7, ,193, ,39O in 1900; and all other machinery, from $13, ,336 ,93O in 1898 to $21, ,913, POP.
 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 QF-if Te-I, Ir,r-. T-
 In 1898 our exports of builders hard ware and tools to British Australasia amounted to SS77 ,635 in 1900 they az gregated 1925, 793; in 1898 our exports in this line to Japan were $76,5O0, while in 1900 they were $1O6.251. Our exports of typewriters to British Australasia in 1898 amounted to $6O, O39, while in the fiscal year 1900 they were $1O1 ,O02 to Japan the exports of typewriters in 1898 amounted to but $4, 220: in 1899 they had increased to $7 ,262, and in 1900 to $16 519, of which sum g, 211 Were exported during the month of June alone thus forecasting in some degree the possibil ities of future development in this ar ticle of export. Commenting upon the increase in exports of typewriters, a prominent American manufacturer is quoted by the New York Commercial as saying:
 ''The demand for American typewrit- CTS was never greater, and our ma- chimes are pretty good globe e-trotters. We have just made a shipment to Pun- tas Arenas on the Straits of Magellan at the extreme southern point of South America, and another lot of typewrit- CTS has been sent north to Vladivostock Russia for the use of the imperial gov ernment. Many of the missionaries and foreign business men in China use our machines, and nearly every American regiment in the Philippines has from three to five machines 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 it's use, and is found in all the large business houses in the principal cities of the world, and its keyboard represents nearly all languages. The exceptions are the Japanese and Chinese. As their characters are upright and composed of many hundred figures or signs it seems practically impossible to produce them on the typeWriter's keyboard"