Arizona republican., 1901-12-28
A FALLING IN EXPORTS
The Quantity Has Increased
in the Year.
The Apparent Loss Of Foreign Business
Is Nothing More Than Decrease
in Price-TWo Islands Unaccount-
ed For.

Washington. Dec. 27--(Spccial)-
manufactures is largely Cue to reduced
prices and absence of data on the COM
merce with Hawaii and Porto Rico is
apparent from some figures. just com
piled by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics. The reduction in the total
value of exports Of manufactures is, as
has already been stated, chiefly in iron
and steel. copper and mineral oil. The
reduction in mineral oil now amounts
to about three million dollars in the
eleven months ending with November,
while in quantity exported there has
been an actual increase Of seventy mil
lion gallons. as compared with the
eleven months Of 1900. In exports OF
wire during the ten months ending
with October the value Of the exports
shows a decrease, = lille the quantity
has during that time increased over
eleven million pounds. as compared
with the same period Of last year. OF
locomotives there is an increase in the
number actually exported and 4 de-
crease in value amounting to nearly
half a million dollars. OF bar iron the
average export price per Isound in the
ten months of 1901. compared with the
corresponding months of 1900 shows
n decrease of 20 per cent; wire rods. a
decrease in price per pound Of over "A
per cent: billets. inScts and blooms.
over l. per cent reduction in price:
steel rails. a reduction Of 10 per cent in
price per ton; tin plates. a reduction OF
25 per cent in price per pound; struc
tural iron and steel. . per cent; cut
nails. u per cent; wire. 16 per cent:
and other articles of iron and steel
, in price per unit of quantity. Among
all the articles of iroa "nd steel cX-
ported in which Quantities as well as
values are given. and an opportunity
thus afforded TO determine the export
price per pound. about three-fourths of
them show reduced prices per pound
ton. or other unit of quantity.
The fact that none of the merchan-
disc sent to the Hawaiian islands or
/ Porto Rico have Deea included in the
statement OF exports 20 foreign coun-
tries alzo takes away from the statis-
tics of manufacturers exported aboUt
SIS. 900. 600 which would he included lf
the methods followed in former years
when Hawaii and Porto Rico We're for
eign territory were applied at the pres
. ent time. Estimates ~ the bureau or
statistics based upon statements oh
tanned regarding .he shipments be
tween the IlleI states ana theS.'
islands during the present year put
I he value Of the exports to Hawaii in
the ten months ending with October at
about twenty-four million dollars. ami
to Porto Rico at GIs millions. making
! il apparent that our exports to those
islands in the ten months in question
amount to about thirty million dollars:
while an examination # the class OF
merchandise exported to them in for
mer years indicates that more than
one half is manufactures. This would
indicate that a considerable share of
the apparent reduction IN oar exports
of manufactures is due TO the absence
Of statistics Of shipments of manufac-
/ lures TO those islands the exports to
which were formerly included in the
statements of our foreign commerce
Add to this the facts shown in the
above statement regarding the reduc-
ton in export prices Of iron and steel
and mineral oil, AMI Il large proper
ton of the apparent reduction in e;1-
ports Of manufactures rs accounted for