The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-12-16
OURFORElGNc COMMERCE
Remarkable Increase In Exports
In Last Five Years.
ACTIVITY ALONG EVERY LINE.


Showing an Increase In Ten Months
of @1G6,s31,15s Over the COrre-
spending Months of 1S09-Favora-
bile Comparison with other Lands.
There is ample food for reflection in
some figures which the treasury bureau
Of statistics at Washington has just
presented regarding the commerce of
the United States in these closing
months of the year 1900 as compared
with conditions at the corresponding |
date in preceding years and comparing |
prosperity in the United States with |
that In other countries. While the |
whole world is prosperous, the United |
States seems to be especially so. Our |
exports show an increase of $166, ,331,-
ITS In the ten months ending with Oc- |
tOber. 1900, as compared with the cor
responding ten months of 1899, and the
total for the ten months is practically
double what it was in the correspond
ing months of 1894 This of itself
shows remarkable activity in all lines
of production, while the import as well
as the export figures indicate that the
activity in manufacturing lines and
consequently the increased earnings Of
the millions engaged in these industries
must be very great. A very considera-
Bile share of the materials required for
use in manufacturing comes from
abroad, such, for instance, as india rub
ber, tin for use in manufacturing tin
plate, hemp, jute, sisal, raw silk. cabi-
net and dye woods, chemicals, hides
and skins and certain grades Of wool
and cotton, and by measuring the
growth in the importation of these arti-
cles some idea of the growth in manu-
featuring may be obtained.
The total importation of materials Of
this class used in manufacturing dur
ing the ten months ending with Octo-
Der, 1900, is $23S, ,257 ,91S as compared
with $214 BOG. 757 in the corresponding
months of 1899 and $127, ,301, ,945 in the
same months of 1894. Turning again
to the export side, it is found that the
expectation of manufactures alone
amounts in the nine months ending
with September. 1900, to 1888. .67S, ,243
against $277,502, GAO in the correspond
ing months of 1899 and $145, 793, ,S34 in
the same months of 1895. Thus the ex-
portation of manufactures has increas-
ed nearly % per cent in one year and
more than doubled in the four years
from 1896 to 1900 while the importa-
ton of manufacturers materials has
,I- 1
ports of manufactures of iron and steel
alone amount to $110.000000 in round
numbers in the ten months ending with
October, 1900, against $S6,000.O00 in
the corresponding months of 1895 and
SOL 100000 in the corresponding
months of 1897, thus having more than
doubled in the three years from 1897 to
1900
Not only have the manufacturer and
the millions dependent upon his indus
try shared in the prosperity of the
year, but those engaged in agriculture
and mining seem to have been equally
prosperous, judging from the record
shown by the figures of our export
commerce. The expectation of agricul-
tural products in the ten months end
1uS Will OClODGI, 1OOO, Is III
terms $700,000.000 as against $625, ,000-
600 in the same months of 1899, while
the products of the mine, the forest
and the fisheries also show an increase
in 1900 as compared with the figures of
1899.
This increase in the products of in
dustry is especially interesting in the
fact that in many cases it shows a
higher reward for given quantity of
labor, or, in other words, higher prices
received for the article itself, as we'll as
an increase in the quantity produced
and sold. In cotton, for instance, the
average export price per pound in the
months of September and October, the
beginning of the new cotton year, has
been 90 cents against 81 cents in the
same months of the preceding year,
while in other agricultural productions
and in various lines of manufactures
especially those of iron and steel, and
in the products of the mine there are
increased prices per unit of quantity
and thus better earnings for those who
produce them.
A comparison of conditions in the
United States with those in other coun
tries as measured by the foreign com
merce indicates a degree of prosperity
which compares favorably with any
country of the world. Oup own ex
ports for the ten months ending will
Oclober show an increase, as has
already been noted, of $166 000, 900
In the exports of the United Kingdom
the increase in ten months is $125, 600,
n00 uhiIo fbo 1Q00 fiO11ros for Rof
gium, France. Spain and Italy show NJ
increase in expectations during tina
part of the year 1900 whose record Il
how available. In the case of Belgium
France, Spain, Italy, Germany and tn,
United Kingdom the imports are great
er than the exports, while in our owl
case the exports vastly exceed the i'm
ports, the excess of exports over i'm