Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-05-03
PROFITS Of EXPANSION
TREMENDOUS INCREASE
IN EXPORTS TO ISLANDS
Figures for Hawaii cannot be Obtained
Increase to Cuba Porto Rico
and Philippines Reaches
Millions.
Especial Correspondence

Especial COrreSpOnQenc6.l
Washington. d. c., April 9.--Exports
from the United States to Porto Rico
pnd the Philippines continue to grow.
To Cuba there is no perceptible in
crease in 1901 compared with 1900. To
Hawaii the exports are no longer re-
corded because OF the refusal of ex-
porters to continue their statements
since the annexation of Hawaii and its
establishment as q customs district Of
the United States. The latest figures
of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics
show that the exports from the United
States to Porto Rico in the eight
months ending with February, 1901.
were $4,295.953, against s2,219,72l in the
corresponding months Of the preceding
fiscal year. 81 ,326.66S in the correspond
Ing period ending with February. 1899.
and $1,200.067 in the corresponding Pc
riod ending with February, 1898. To
the Philippines our exports in the eigh.
months ending with February. 1901
were $2,767,SS1. against $1,701. 403 III
the corresponding period Of the pre-
ceding fiscal year, S117,O2l in the same
period OF the fiscal year 1899, and s69,-
235 In the same period ending with
February, 1898.
To Cuba our exports for the eight
months ending with February OF the
present year were s17,236.752, against
$17.l72.472 in the corresponding period
of the preceding year, sl0,142,9i9 in the
eight months ending with February,
1899. and s7.6S9,323 in the same period
ending with February. 1898.
To the Hawaiian Islands the exports
cannot, as already indicated. be meas.
ured for the present fiscal year, but
there Is every reason to believe that
, the are increasing as are those to
Porto Rico and the Philippines. In the
eight months ending with February
1900. they increased so per cent over
the corresponding period Of the proceed
Ing fiscal year, and now that commerce
between the Islands and the United
States is absolutely unrestricted 1t II
not unreasonable to assume that thu
figures have materially increased. TIT
total exports to Cuba. Porto Rico ant
the Philippines in the eight months
erding with February, 1901 amounted
, to s24,3O0,5s6, as against $21 ,O93,5 ir
the corresponding period Of the fisca
,year 1900. s11.5S6,633 for like period
In 1899, and $s.95s, 625 for like period
In the fiscal year 1898.
Could the figures of our exports tt
Hawaii In the present fiscal year be In
cluded II is probable that the total ex'
ports from the United States to the
four islands or groups OF islands would
amount to S36.0000,000 in the eigh
months under consideration, agains
$50, 100000 In the corresponding month";
Of the fiscal year 1900, sl7,000,0O0 fo'
the same period OF 1899, S13,000.0 900 FOL
the corresponding period Of 1898, and
1O,000, 900 for the same period OF thu
fiscal year 1896. Thus the exports t.
these Islands have trebled since Feb
ruary. 1898, have doubled since 1885,
and have increased % per cent In thu
past year; though to Cuba there ha'
been In the past year no material In
crease.
Cuba's importers seem less favorabl.
disposed towards the markets OF tn
United States at the latest account
than In the preceding year. The lates
report of the Insular Board Of the Wa
Department, which Is in charge OF tn
Cuban statistics, covers the min
months ending with September, 1900
In that period Cubns imports wer
J $53, 1OS,702, and OF that sum S24,525,
$50, or 46 per cent came from the Unit
ed States. and $21.559,239 from Europe
while In the corresponding months o
the preceding year Cuba's total impor
were $54, G36,747, Of which S2S,09403C
or per cent came from the Unite'
States, and SIS, 4S1 ego from Europe.
The following table shows the ex
ports from the United States to Cuba
Porto Rico and the Philippine Island
In the eight months ending with Feb
ruary in each year from 1896 to 1901:
EIyht month Exports from the United States I