The age-herald., 1901-07-21
EXPORTS REPORTS
 SHOW DECREASE Figures Give an Apparent Re- duction of S14,565,O3O STATEMENT IS MISL FADING The Report Does Not Include Hawaii and Porto Rico as Heretofore.
 1t Is Believed Increase
 VIII Yet be roved.
STATEMENT IS MlSL FADING

Washington, July 20.-(SpeciaL)-E ports of manufactures from the United States appear to be slightly less in the fiscal year just ended than in the pre- ceding year, the figures for the eleven months ending with May showing an ap- parent reduction of $14, ,565 ,0S0. This state ment, however, Is misleading because the figures of the year 1901 do not include the exports to Porto Rico and Hawaii, which were included in former years, and which are largely manufactures and which will aggregate $25, ,0O0OOO for the fiscal year. Were it possible for the bureau of statis- ties to include in it's figures of exports of manufactures those sent to Hawaii and Porto Rico, the figures of 1901 would diff fer little from those of 1900.
 Indeed an analysis of the general export figures of manufactures for the eleven months now available shows Tn most cases crease is confined to few articles and Is due, in some cases at least, to a fall in price rather than reduction in quantity. In Illuminating oils, for instance, the ex- port figures for the eleven months end- ing with May 1901 show a decrease of four and half million dollars In value, but an increase of nearly fifty million gallons the accurate figures being: For eleven months ending with May, 1901, 663, ,554, ,52S gallons; value, S51, ,753,797; and for the eleven months of 1901, I'll, ,276 gallons; value, $47, ,22S, ,4S3 Two other great articles of our exports of manufactures show a reduction in 1901 as compared with 1900, viz, copper and cotton manufactures, and these, indeed, form the chief reduction In the grand totals for the year 1901, as com pared with 1900 In the latter, cotton man. ufactures. the reduction Is due entirely to temporary conditions in China.
 Cotton Goods.
 The total exports of cotton manufac- lures in the eleven months ending with May, 1901, are $17,275, ,299, against S22, ,oS0- 5S3 in the corresponding months of last year, reduction of $4,805 ,2S4, while an examination of the figures of the exports of cotton cloth to China shows that they fell from $8,2SS, ,946 in the eleven months of 1901 to S3,004,727 in the same months of 1900. reduction of 5,2S4, ,219 in this item alone. Thus the reduction in the exporta- tion of cotton manufactures is entirely accounted for in this single item of cot ton cloths to China. where the reduction is, of course, but temporarily due to the disturbances in that country during the first half of the fiscal year. The only remaining item in the list of exported manufactures which shows a material re- ductionlis copper, which shows fall of 63, 721, $40 pounds in quantity, and $11 ,S49,- 51S in value. during the eleven months ending with May, 1901, as compared with the same period of 1900, though the value of copper exports in 1901, though the value 900, GOO in excess of the corresponding months of 1899.
 Marked Growth.
 In aslarge share of the important arti- cles of our exports of manufactures, the figuress of o1901, showsa a marked growth over those of the preceding year and of any preceding year. In steel rails, for instance, the exports during eleven months of 1901 are more than $2,0O0.0OO in excess of the same months of last year; in pig iron there is an increase of a mill lion dollars; in bars and rods of steel an increase. of a million and half; in elec- trical machinery, a million and half; in boots and shoes, over a million dollars; in cotton seed oil, nearly two millions: in carriages and cars, two millions; in chemicals, more than a million; in scien- tiflc instruments, million dollars; while already indicated, in some cases where the values have decreased there is still an increase in quantities. the apparent reduction being due to the fall in price and not to a reduction in the. quantity exported.
 American manufacturers have, there fore, no occasion for anxiety regarding the slight apparent decrease in the ex- port figures of manufactures in 1901 which is due: 1. To the fact that ship ments of goods to Porto Rico and Hawaii aggregating' more than 1000 in the year just ended, are no longer included in the list of exports, as was formerly the case g.. That the reduction of over $6,- GOO, 900 in exports of cotton cloth and min eral oils to China may be looked upon as due entirely to temporary causes. B. That in numerous instances the reduction is due to fall in price while there has been an actual increase fn quantity; and 4. That in the principal item of decrease, copper, the figures exceed those of any preceding year except 1900, in which year the demand abroad for electrical works was far beyond that of any preceding year.