Arizona republican., 1900-08-03

ports of manufactures had increased to S6S. .279, 764, and those of the United Kingdom were s9O0, ,16S, ,224 in 1880. ex- ports of manufactures from the United States were $102, S56, ,015, and those from the United Kingdom were $970, ,6S1, ,400; in 1890, exports of manufactures from the United States were S151 102, ,376, and those from the United Kingdom were S1, ,0S9 155, 7S7. In 1900, exports of manu- factures from the United States had reached s432, ,2s4, ,366 while those from the United Kingdom in 1898, the latest year available, had dropped to $936,- 165. 1925. Thus our exports of manufac- lures are now ten times as much as in 1860, while those of the United King dom are put one and a half times as great as in 1860.
 OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.
 A study of our imports from the the growth in the proportion of our inn ports which is being supplied by the tropical and sub tropical parts of the world. In 1890 the imports from Europe were s449, ,937, ,266, and in 1900, $40. .5O9, ,4S0; from North America the imports in 1890 were S14S, ,96S, 7O6. and in 1900 $129, = 939S75; from South America, from which our imports are almost exclus- lively tropical and sub-tropical, the inn ports of 1890 were $90 0O6, IA and in 1900, S93, ,635, 134: from Asia, whose sup plies sent to the United States are chiefly tropical and sub-trOpical in character, our imports in 1890 were $67. = 5O6,SS3, and in 1900. s139, 9,S17 ,O23; from Oceania, laying almost exclusively in the tropics, the imports in 1890 were 2S,356, ,56S. and in 1900, $34, ,596, ,O42; and from Africa. from which our imports are almost exclusively tropical and sub-tropical. our imports in 1890 were $3,S21, AT and in 1900 s11,217,1 ,116
 INSULAR IMPORTS.
 That a large proportion of the grow ing demand for tropical and sub-tropi- cal products can be supplied by the islands which have recently come into closer relations with the United States is illustrated by the statistics showing the value of the imports into the United States from Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawaii. anu lAiC I l1IlApplAlt lSldHuS III SdCn year from 1890 to 1900. In 1890 the imports from these islands aggregated over $S0. 100000 and reached s1OO OOO. 900 under the increase which followed the -xeeiprocity treaty with Spain, falling to less than S4O,O00,000 in 1897 and 1898, and again reaching over $60, 900, 0O0 in 1900. while a return to the conditions of production and commerce which existed in Cuba and Porto Rico in 1892 and 1893 would probably again bring the total impoi ts into the United States from the four groups of islands to above $100 GOO. .OO0 with a prospect of further growth as their producing capacity is developed by the construction of roads, railways, etc., and the Introduction of new capi- tai. In 1900 the imports into the United States from the islands in ques- tion were: From Cuba, $31 .3T, ,7O4: from Porto Rico, $3,O7S, ,415; from Hawaii $20. 107 ,903, and from the Philippines. $5,9Il POS. The fact that the most rapid growth in our imports is in the class Of articles produced in these islands sugar, fibers, coffee, tropical fruits, to- bacco, etc, and for which their produc- ing capacity may be rapidly and great ly increased, suggests that d much larger share of our tropical imports may be supplied from this source in the near future.