The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-05
OUR EXPORT TRADE.

IA good deal of encouragement to the
manufacturing interests of the country
is found in the detailed statement of
comm cree for the month of April and
the ten months ending with April, just
issued by the treasury bureau Of sta
tistics. It shows that manufacturers
materials formed one-half of the inn
portations during the month of April,
and in the ten months formed over 16
per cent Of the total; while the exports
Of manufactures in the month Of April
formed 1854 per cent of the total ex-
ports, against 29.15 per cent in April,
1901, and for the 10 months ending
with April, 1902 they formed 1855 per
cent of the total exports, as compared
whit 27.4O per cent in the correspond
ing months of the preceding year.
The total value of manufacturers' ma
terials imported IN the 10 months end
ing with April this year is s34s, So. O61.
as against $3.50, SOL 407 in the CORE
spending months of last year. an in
crease of S67, S55, 654 or "A per cent. Ex-
ports of manufacturers, it viii be OBJ
served, are nearly overtaking those of
last year, the gain in the month of
April alone being four and a half mill
lion dollars over April, 1901, while for
the 10 months the total value of manu-
features exported falls but S.. 1861 be-
low that for the corresponding months
Of last year.
In imports of manufacturers mater
ials the growth is found in almost every
important class of articles. Chemicals.
which ere largely used in manufactur-
ing, show a growth from 441a million
dollars in the ten months of last year
to over As millions in the ten months OF
the present fiscal year; raw cotton, from
80 million pounds to 81 million pounds;
copper ore, from million dollars in
value to over y millions; hbers, for use
in manufacturing. from is million dol
lars to 25 millions; hides and skins, from
81 millions to ~ million dollars: raw
silk from % million to se million dol
lars; tin, from SO million pounds to Ga
million pounds; leaf tobacco. from y
million pounds to Is million pounds
wool from less than 10 million dollars to
over Is million dollars. and wood fl ON
u million dollars to Is million dollars.
On the export side the largest increase
in manufactures is in cotton goods,
which in the present fiscal year Will ex-
coed by % per cent the figures Of any
preceding year. For the ten months
ending with April the total exports of
cotton manufactures We're s26, 43e, S79,
and for the single month of April were
s3.0s2, 71S indicating that for the full
fiscal year the total will exceed $30. 00o,-
600. The highest figure in exports Of
cotton manufactures ever reached in
any preceding year was S24, .0S7 in
1900
The total exports Of manufactures. as
already indicated. have nearly over
taken the figures Of last year. and for
the full fiscal year seem likely to be
quite as large as those Of last year
The exports of domestic manufactures
for the ten months total 1898. SIC, SOC.
against 1899. 307, 62s, a decrease Of "A
millions; while the fact that April alone
made a gain of IA millions over April
Of last year indicates that the.dsca1 year
1902 VIII probably equal the record Of
1901. An analysis of the exports Of
manufactures indicates that the chief