Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-01-28
BIG EXPORT RECORD.
Hitchcock Refers to 1t In a
Report.
GREW OVER l2.FoLD IN CENTURY.
Domestic Exports In 1900 over 40 Times
as Large as In 1900 Agricultural Prod
uets Formed About 62 Per Cent of
the Exports Last Year.

Washington. Jan. 2s.-Mr Frank
H. Hitchcock chief Of the section of
foreign markets of the agricultural
department. has just issued his an
nual review of the trade of the Unit
ed States in agricultural products
His report said in part:
In 1900, century ago, the total
value of the merchandise imported
and exported in our trade with for
eign countries was considerably less
than a quarter of n billion dollars
The value of the goods exchanged
during the past fiscal year reached
nearly Two and Il quarter billions, far
exceeding all previous records. Since
the opening of the century our com
merce with the rest of the world has
increased more than twelyefold.
Our domestic exports during 1900,
with recorded value of $1,370, 163,
571, were over forty times as large
as in 1900 The total imports for
1900, on the other hand, amounting
in value to $S49,941, 1S4, were less
than ten times as large as in 1900
Compared with the value of our inn
ports for 1900. that of our domestic
exports showed an excess of $500,
go, 1897. OF the merchandise import
ed from foreign countries during the
fiscal year 1900, about 40 per cent
consisted of agricultural products.
These products had an aggregate
value of 1920 136,3S1, exceeding by
almost $50, 100000 the record of the
year before.
eyrta nj
ture were marketed abroad in the
fiscal year 1900 to the value of SSH
1858 forming about 62 per cent
of the total domestic exports. With
the single exception of 1898 the past
year witnessed the largest annual ex-
port trade in farm produce on record
The value attained came within $15.-
100000 of the phenomenal figures for
1898, and surpassed those for 1890
by more than S5O,00O,000. A consid-
cradle portion of the increase over
1899 was accounted for by the higher
price Of cotton.
In detail these principal items of
our imports make the following show
ing, the figures given being for 1900
and the comparison of gain or loss
being with the fiscal year 1899:
Sugar 4013, 0S6, $50 pounds, gain.
81, S35. 961 pounds. and total gain in
value of these imports. S5.2S6,S54;
hides and skins. 345, 935,77S pounds,
gain. IS. S45.02S pounds. value of gain,
SIS. 947 $50: coffee, 7S7,991,911 pounds,
loss. A.. $50. 152. value loss S2,s0I,-
527; silk. 13,o73,71S pounds, gain, l.
1923 ,33335 pounds. value gain. S12,S5O.-
1873. vegetable fibers. chiefly sisal
grass, cotton and manila hemp. S34,
:334. $50. gain. $9,021 .511; wool, LOO,
92S.455 pounds, gain, 79,192,246
pounds Tor over 100 per cent?, value
gain. S11 1898, 039; fruits and nuts,
$40. 263 500. gain, S949,3S6; tobacco.
19.619.627 pounds, gain. 5,5S3.79S
pounds. value gain, $3,396,9T0: tea,
S4.S45. 107 pounds. gain. 10,755,20S,
value gain. $SS3029; wines, $7,421,-
495. gain. 1881 .2S9; vegetable oils,
S6,320,711, gain, $1020,047; cocoa, a.
$50, 240 pounds. gain. 6,320,657 pounds,
value gain. S610,72S. The value
changes were in part caused by an
average rise In value during the year
of one-tenth of cent a pound in
sugar, | cent a pound in hides ana
skins one-tenth of a cent pound in
coffee, SO cents a pound in silk, S2a,0o
a ton in sisal grass, Is cents q pound
in cotton. $51.50 ton IN Mania
hemp, % cents pound i'll wool, and
a loss of 81 cents a pound in tobac-
co. seven-tehths of a cent pound in
tea and seven-tenthS of cent
pound in cocoa.
Our principal agricultural exports
in 1900 as in previous years, were
breadstuffs, cotton and meat prod
ucts. these, with live animals. tobac-
co. oil cake. vegetable oils. fruits and
nuts, dairy products and seeds, com
prising over 95 per cent of our total
exports of farm products during 1900.
The exports for 1893, amounting in
value to 1898 ,S97 10, were by far the
largest on record In 1899 the ex-
port trade amounted to S213999, 500,
this value being in excess of any pre-
yiously reported, excepr that just
mentioned for 1898 and a record of
5000. 1868, lit attained in 1892. The
shipments during 1900 We're valued
at so62. 744.O7S. or $11 ,255.621 less
than the figures returned for 1899
The decline in the export value of
breadstuffs recorded for 1900 was
traceable chiefly to falling off in
the shipments of wheat. Accompany
ing the decline in wheat shipments
there was "a further market increase
in the exports of corn and for the
first time in the history of the trade
the total export value of corn exceed
ed that of wheat.
Tunnrc,cyrn OLDHAM HDTrr