The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-19
EXPECTATIONS IN MARCH.
MUCH LARGER THAN FOR CORRE-
SPENDING MONTH IN ANY YEAR.
100000 over March, 1s90-Exports
for Nine Months Just Ended show
Large Gains over Last Year.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer'
WASHINGTON, April iS.-lMarcn expof-
tations are larger than those OF any cor
responding month in our history ana dou-
bic the average for the month OF MtIeh
during the decade ending with ieSo' ihe
TRIAL exports OF the month, as shown by
the figures just reported by the treasury
bureau OF stat.sti, $, are sl3i,3l34s. against
ste, E5s CSC In March Of last year slo,5fi, 80
IN March 1906 and SCI, 51s.57I in March,
1893 Thus the expectations OF March, Ieo'
are more than double those OF M4s assS.
and e per cent greater than uDbse OF
March OF last year. and, as already stated,
are larger than those OF any preceding
March in our history. Indeed, the re-
ports Of the bureau OF statistics show but
one month December, 1899 in the his
tory OF the export trade of the United
States in which the total expectation was
az large as that OF March 1860, the month
OF December usually being the heaviest
export month of the year.
Not only are the March, 1900, exports
the heaviest in the history OF our foreign
commerce, but the total for the nine
months ending with March is also greater
than that OF any corresponding nine
months in the history Of our exports. The
total expectations in the nine months
ending with March, 1900. are 81, 053. s32 G75.
against S9f7.91g405 in the corresponding
months OF last year 1895, 9o5, 35s In the cor
responding months of 1897, and f5l5, i99 635
in the corresponding months Of 1886. hav-
ing thus doubled in fifteen years and in
creased over SO per cent. since 1896.
Increase in Manufactures.
The steady increase in expectations Is
the more remarkable In view OF the fact
that exports OF agricultural products are
only about the same az those OF the cor
responding months OF last year, the not
able increase OF more than ti00000.00o in
the nine months In question being large
ending with February Ohe details for
March not yet being completely, the ex
ports OF agricultural products were prac-
iically the same as those OF the CORE
sponding eight months OF the preceding
year. while those OF manufactures show
ed an Increase of 81 10000.
These astonishing figures of the March
expectations make II apparent that the
total exports of the fiscal year 1900 will
exceed those OF any preceding year in our
history. since for the nine months of the
fiscal year for whlt the figures are now
at hand. the total exports are tl05 5000
greater than those OF the corresponding
months OF any preceding year. IT seems
probable that the total exports OF the year
will reach 81 100 600 00p, and that r1antifac-
lures will supply fully 500, 10000 of this
vast sum.
Imports Also show Increase.
Imports also show a marked Increase
over last year. the principal increase be-
Ing In manufacturers materials which in
the eight months ending with February,
We're s60p0,O0 greater than in the corre-
fponHhs months OF the preceding year,
mechanic arts also showed an increase of
over s2O.o00000
The following table shows the total i'm
ports and exports in March of each year.