The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-29
METALs QUE sPEcIALTY.

An expectation of forty million dol
lars worth of manufactures in thirty
days is record unparalleled for Ameri-
can manufactures That Is the record
for the month of April, 1900. The details
of the April exportations-just COM
pleted by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics-show that the expectation of
manufactures during that month were
by far the greatest Of any month in
our history and within a fraction of
forty million dollars This gives assur-
ance that the exports Of the fiscal year
which ends with June will consider
ably exceed 400 million dollars and be
nearly three times as much as a de-
cade ago. This phenomenal increase
in expectation Of manufactures is es-
pecially striking when compared with
the progress made by European nations,
our rivals in the attempt to supply the
worlds market with manufactured
goods. Great Britain's exports Of man
ufactures show but slight increase
since 1890. and an examination of the
export record Of the principal European
countries fails to disclose an instance
In which the increase has been as much
as % per cent. while that of the Unit
ed States meanwhile has been more
than $50 per cent.
An examination of the details Of our
own expectation of manufactures
shows that it is in the production,
manufacture and expectation of metals
that we seem to excel The history
of nations and peoples shows that great
groups of people frequently excel in Ger
tain Industries. and the growth of our
expectation, as we'll as our domestic
production Of manufactures, seems to
point to metals as our most successful
line Of work, especially at the present
time. In 1889, manufactures of metals
formed less than 20 per cent of our
total expectation of manufactures, and
in 1900 will be about 40 per cent. of our
exports Of manufactures. The increase
in expectation of metals and manufac-
lures thereof in the decade 1SS9-1S9S was
3s9 per cent, while the increase in the
expectation of all manufactures in that
time was but ITO per cent, and the in
crease in manufactures other than
those Of metal DUNG that time was
IS per cent.
In this statement Of the expectation
OF manufactures of metal only those
articles composed exclusively of metals
are included; those made up in part Of
tural machinery. etc, being included
in the other manufactures. The rapid
increase in the expectation of manufac-
lures of metals is shown by the fact
that the exports of brass and manufac-
lures thereof in 1889 were but 1921. 137
and in 1900 will reach S1.700.0 600; instru-
ments for scientific purposes increased
from s1.O33 1913 to 80. 40. S03 and in tn,
year about to end viii reach nearly Sc,
100000: copper and it's manufactures
which amounted in 1889 to S2.34s954, viii
be more than fifty million dollars II
1900; iron and steel increased from SOL
156.O77, in 1889. to So O6. SS5 in 1885, Will,
in the fiscal year 1900 it Will exceed
100000. 600
Another interesting fact developed By
the examination Of the figures is tina
the European countries, in which manu-
features have been long established
furnish as satisfactory q market 70
our manufactured goods as do tn
countries where manufacturing has no