Arizona republican., 1902-07-11
GREAT INCREASE
 INSUlAR TRADE
For Fiscal Year II Amounted
 to Fifty Millions
A Grow h of Forty Millions Annually Since the Islands Came Into the Possession of the United States Five Years Ago.

Washington, July 1G.-Commerce be- tween the United States and it's newly acquired territories is grow ing with remarkable rapidity. In 1897, the year preceding that in which Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines came under the American flag, the shipments to those islands were, ac- Cording to the figures of the treasury bureau of statistics $6,11S, 560. In 1901 they were ever S30, ,000, 900. and in the fiscal year just ended they will be, ac- cording to the best figures that the bureau of statistics can obtain, fully $35 100000 To this may be added the estimate of S15,000,0 GOO of shipments to Alaska in the last year. This would bring the total sales or American goods
 in the contiguous territory of the United States up to about S5O.oGo.O00 III the last fiscal year. against about $l0,- 0Q0, 900 in the same territory in lS91.
 Considering the figures in detail, the bureau of statistics finds that the eX- ports from the United States to Porto Rico, which were in 1887 $1,9SS,SSS, were in 1900 $4 GAO 449; in 1901, $6,S61. .917, and as they were S9,651 ,0G0 in the eleven months ending with May, it is safe to
 
 year will show d total of over $l0000,- coo of shipments to Porto Rico for the year ending June 30. 1902. To Hawaii the exports in the fiscal year 1897 were $4. .69O. .O75; by 1899 they had reached s. 3O5. .470: in 1890, S13,509, 14S Subsequent to that time the bureau of statistics of shipments to Hawaii are based upon estimates supplied by the collectors of customs at San Francisco and HClo- lulu, and are put at $20.000.0G0 as a l conservative figure. To the Philippines the exports in 1897 were S34, ,551: in 1899 ! they were S404. .l93: in 1900. 2.640. .449: in 1901, $4, ,021 064. and in the full fiscal year i 1902 will be fully $5.0G0.e0O. To Alaska the shipments in 1894 were, according i to the best figures that the bureau of statistics has been able to obtain s. 924. 000, and for the calendar year 1901. ! $13.50 600. and for the fiscal year just ended will probably be Sl5,000, ,000 ! bringing the total shipments from the | United States tu $ iicr contiguous ter ritory up to s5p.oJsaUo. -------- i On the import side it may be said 1 that the non-contiGuOus territory Ot l the United States now supplies $50, LOCO. i coo worth (per annum) of it's products l for use in the United States. In 1S9l the imports from Porto Rico were g. 1S1.024; those from Hawaii, %15,GS1, 799 and from the Philippines. $:.3S3,140. By 1860 the imports from Porto Rico had grown to $3,07S,64S; from Hawaii. $2G,-
 7G7,903 and from the Philippines, $5,- 1 971,20S In the fiscal year just ended the merC handise received from Porto
 Rico will be, in round terms. S7,00O,0c0:
 from the Hawaiian lands. $26,0G0.000 : from tte Philippines. $I,000. coo. and from Alaska about $7,cc0,0G ia fish
 furs and other products of this charac- ter, and an equal amount in gold and
 silver, thus bringing the total contri- buttons of the noH-contiguous territory considerably above s50,000. 0O0.
 During the same time commerce wirt
 Asia and Oceania has also increased
 with very great rapidity, especially the exports. In 1897 exports to Asia anC
 Occania were s61927 ,67S; in 19OO s1OS,
 3C4 GS2. and in the fiscal year 1902. the total. including shipments to Hawaiia! ! islands, will amount to about S120, O00,-
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