Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-06-09

and Oceanic have grown from $27, 421,-
s3l in the fiscal year OF 1893 to an indi-
Gated total of over $780, 100000 for the
current fiscal year ending June 30. The
actual total for the ten months ending
with April was $9l ,012, 642, making it
certain that the 800, 100000 mark will
be passed by the end of June. In the
second place, this growth was chiefly in
cotton, hreadstnlfs, provisions, and man
uiactures, two OF which great classes OF
products the Northwest IL capable of
supplying in almost unlimited guam
titles. Furthermore, of the manufac-
lures exported, agricultural machinery
and boots and shoes were among the
most portantitem Finally, the fact
that two of the great transcontinental
highways span the tier of states that
stretches from the Great Lakes to the
Pacific, from Duluth and Superior to
three OF the five principal Pacific ports,
assures to this section large share in
the sportation OF products originating
in other sections.
Comparing the volume OF exports of
certain OF the principal articles in the
ten-month period ending April, 1898,
and in III the corresponding period in
1900, the extent OF the ride that has
been taken in the development of Pa
cific commerce is strikingly brought ont
In the matter OF wheat alone the value
Of the exports to Asia and Oceania rose
from $57 PSI to $l55. 305. But the larger
part of the breadstuff trade was in -four.
The foot-hold that that purely North
western product is obtaining in rice-eat-
ing countries appears in the rapidity
with which the shipments have expand
ed. In 1898 China took only II 900 bar
rels, but in 1900 CO., 76 barrels. Japan
increased her takings in the same period
from 1875, 429 barrels to 457,476 barrels.
from nc, 654 barrels to 1,106.-
800 barrels, and the rest of Asia and
Oceanic from 130, 069 to pa $50 barrels
In the matter OF manufactures, except
cotton, Australia is by far the most inn
portant foctor. Between the two per-
iods III question she increased her i'm
ports OF our boots and shoes from $751;
l5l to $97l ,822, figure that makes her
the best shoe market we have in the
world, distancing England by $l56,00O
and more than doubling any other coun-
try In respect to scientific apparatus
and sewing machines she is our third
customer in rank, her takings of the for
mef having leaped from SAC, 232 in 1898
to $486, 232 in 1900. OF agricultural m
'hinery she took sos, 468 in 1900 against
only $407 ,9O8 two years before.
In this connection and because it illus
rates the vast possibilities of the far
Eastern trade and indicates how import
ant 1t is for the whole United States
that Chinese ports be kept open without
discrimination, the important part
played by the Pacific in the cotton trade
IS worthy OF attention, In the ten
month periods Japan increased her con-
OF our raw cotton between
1898 and 1900 from 6,3l4 ,92S to 81, no. |
% and China her purchases of our cot |
ON cloth from 81 $3.50, 935 to s., $40, 1928, or
% more than 80 per cent of the quantity
exported TO all parts of the earth. Even
/ 1t were not for the American missions
ana American missionaries this vast
.rade would compel this country to
watch with no little concern the dis
in China, which may lead to
-he dissolution of that country and the
of the districts which form
our richest cotton goods market into the
Russian system of commercial exclusion.
-Pioneer-Press.