The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-02
EXPORTS OF MINERAL PRODUCTS
An Increase of Five Hundred Per
Cent in Ten Years.


Mineral products crude and manurac-
tured have become in recent years q very
important feature OF the domestic ex-
ports OF the United States OF the 81. 565.-
z2S.5e6 exports Of domestic products. in
Guiding SolG and silver, in The year 1880.
$+a5. 2z7f77 in value were composed Of
mineral products. Thus y per cent OF
the total domestic exports originated lie
Meath the surface OF the earth. though,
OF course nue. of their selling value
was added 10y the labor which turned ehen
into the form required for the use Of man.
The exports Of iron and steel. for in
sU@2ce. amounted in 1900 in round terms,
to $3.50, oct, eco; mineral oils Of all classes.
to SIS, Gee; copper, 10 nearly $600c0.-
000; coal and coke, over so. coo. GOO; paraf-
dne, more than 5000. 009: phosphates.
more than 8 oGo eco, while tae gold pro-
dUeJicn exported amounted To So. ISL 52S
and the silver TO sos 90 65S-
\ comparison Of these enormous OK
ports Of metals and minerals and their
products with those Of decade ago
shows the remarkable progress which las
been made in this branch Of American
indUstry-the production and manufacture
Of the mineral wealth which nature has
iron and steel manufactures for instance
The expectations OF 1899. amounted 10 but
81 G0e. I34 and IN 1900 they were eycIu-
siVe Of iron ore, SIPS 6s}. $50. OF nearly
i've times as much in 1860 as = decade
earlier. Of copper the expectations OF
1850 were S5.ylS.3S5, and IN 1890 SIS SSI -
! $50, or nearly ten times as much as in
1890. decade earlier OF mineral oils
the expectations of 1890 were So 270. g43
and in 1890. S54 499. 7G7, an increase of
about % per cent. OF coal and coke the
exports of 1850 were 8 20 Sg2 and in
1850. So, SIS, Q+I, or about three times as
much as IN 1890. and of phOsphates the
exports of 1880 were $1.SIS. AIS, and in
1900. $5.211.5i0. or about three times as
much as decade earlier Taking the
entire group Of minerals. metals. and the
manufactures thereof. exclusive OF gold
and silver. The total for 1880 was Sf03.-
693,955. and in 1900. 1924 49, 2S6, or more
than three times as much as in 1899 q
decade earlier; while Of gold, the do
nestle product exported in 1890 amounted
TO 500. $4,000, and in 1890 to S52.TST 523
and of silver the exports of 1881 were
Sl6.e&S-1S0, and those Of 1900 e59,272 SIS
The values OF metals. minerals, and the
products thereof exported in 1890. ex-
elusive Of gold and silver. show an IN
crease Of us per cent over 1880. and in
Guiding gold and silver an increase OF
~ LGE cent WniIe the total domestic
exports including gold and silver showed
during the same time an increase OF but
= per cent
Meantime imports of this character
have materially decreased. except in cass
Of natural products not obtained from
. the mines Of the United States. bur re-
qUired for use in manufacturing I'm
. ports OF manufactures Of iron ana steel.
for instance. Tell from 81 sac Sol. IN $50.
+ ID $2H. IA. SOS, in 1900; while pig tin used
y. the manufacture of tinplate has in
( creased from about six and a half mil
. lions. in 1890. 10 $l9 45S. 5S6. in 1900