Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-12
IMPROVED CQNNEDCEL
Our Exports OF Manufactures
Show Good Gains for Ten
Months.
Shipments for April Show In
crease OF S4,50G, 600 Over
Previous April.
Exports Resuming Normal Con.
ditions = Increased Trade
With China.

Washington June 12.-Exports of
manufactures show a decided improve
ment in the record of foreign commerce
of the United States for the first ten
months of the present fiscal year. The
report of the treasury bureau of sta
tistics showing the detailed exports
from the United States by articles dur
ing the month of April and during the
ten months ending with April shows
a marked improvement in the record of
manufactures exported. The exports
OF manufactures for the month of April
1902 are four and a half millions great
er than those of April of the preced-
ing year, being $3S ,301, against S34,-
416,279 III April 1901, and forming 36.5
per cent of the total exports in April
1902, against 29.1 per cent in April
1901. For the ten months ending with
April the exports of manufactures are
1888, $50, 500, against S339,30T,623 for the
corresponding ten months of the pre-
ceding fiscal year, reduction OF about
81 million dollars for the ten months.
This would indicate that the total eX-
ports OF manufactures during the full
fiscal year which ends with the pres
ent month will fall little, if any, below
those of last year.
An examination of the details of the
exports shows that the small reduc-
ton of * million dollars which exists
at the present time occurs chiefly in
manufactures of iron and steel the
exports of which are $S2,3SS,463.
against S99,22S,22S. comparing the fig
ures for ten months of this year with
those for the same months of the pre-
ceding year. Thus the reduction in ex-
ports OF iron and steel manufactures
alone is much greater than the net re-
duction in total exports of manufac-
lures. In iron and steel, however, the
figures for the month of April show
a marked improvement over those for
earlier months of the year, being 49,
32O,633. against $9,OS1,22 in April 1901.
In iron and steel exports the principal
reductions in the ten months occur in
pig iron, decrease of nearly three
million dollars; steel rails, nearly five
millions; and metal working machinery,
nearly a million dollars.
In other articles of manufacture
which some months ago showed a
marked reduction. there has been a
decided reaction and return of normal
conditions. In manufactures of cop
per, which during the early part of the
year showed a very great reduction,
the figures for ten months fall but
three million dollars below those of
the corresponding months of last year,
while those for the month of April are
nearly $3,000,000 greater than those
for the same month of 1901.
Exports of mineral oil, which also
showed a decrease during the earlier
part of the year in comparison with
the same months of the preceding year
are for the ten months ending with
April 1902 nearly three millions greater
than those of the same months of 1901
while the quantity exported is about
so million gallons greater than in the
months of the preceding
year. Exports of paraffin, which showed |
a material reduction in the early |
months of the present fiscal year, are
for the ten months ending With April |
a million and a half dollars in excess
of those of the same months of the
year. The largest increase
however, is in exports of cotton goods, |
which for the ten months ending will
April are s26,436,379, against s15,115,-
SCI in the corresponding months of last
year and s20,202,272 in the corresponds
ing months of the fiscal year 1900. This
increase in the exports of cotton good.
is chiefly to China, to which the ex-
ports We're largely suspended in 1901
owing to the disturbances then existing
in that country but are also much
larger than those of any earlier year.
The total exports of cotton cloths alone
to China from the United States in the
ten months ending with April 1902 are
212, 439,390 yards, valued at S13,314,261,
against 44,660,272 yards valued at 81
494.274 in ten months Of 1901, and 1884,
8S4,S55 yards valued at $7,S1O,S23 in
ten months OF 1900.