Arizona republican., 1902-04-04
MILLION A DAY
 0F MATERIALS
For Manufacturers Brought t0
 Inc JniiGd SiaiGS
The Business of the Last Eight Months. On the Other Hand the Export of Manufactures Is Making a Good Showing.

WaShinGtCn April 2.-Tne mGuuf2c- turers of the country are now importing liorc than sl.GC0,900 worth 0f materials for their workshops cVcry day in tte year, and are exporting more than Sl, 0GoGG0 worth or their finished product each day. The imports of rianuflc- turers' materials in tho eight months ending with February. 1902. ere. ac- cOrdinG to q statement just Issued Iy lha treasury bureau of statist.,s. y273.- 2e2.17i. and tha exports Of Iniscal manufactures during the sane period were $251, 9GI 420. Thus in 245 days of the fiscal year the manufacturers have imported $270.0GC 0U0 worth Cf material and exported $257. .0J0.000 worth of their finished product, thus averaging more than $l 900 coo of both imports and e.c- ports for every day of the iis1al year up t9 the beginning of the present month. The importation ot manufAc- tjlTeTs' materials has been greater in the eight months just ended ,han in the corresponding period of any pre- ceding year.
 On the export side Of the accpun; manufacturers are showing Gn inn proved record. The bureau Of statistics reports of exports Of manufactures during both January and February show a decided increase over the cor responding months Of 1901 the gain in She two months i'll question beina more than $3,GU0.CC0 over the saIr, months of the preceding years The ] exports of manufactures in the twen- weight days of February were *31- 1 1t).Si2, against 0.302, 552 in February , 1901. h practically all articles except iron and steel there has been q com plete recovery from the lemporar; che. h in exports of manufactures noted q few months ago. Copper exports, =, instance. in February or this .-eay. wer, : $i,-13.Sal. against %3,155.714 n Fe5ru ar, l9Jl. though for the eight 1nonth. the total still stands $S.590. .0dG below 1 that of the same period O. thc nce l cedinS fiscal year. Exports of reii14 mineral oils fc. the eight montrs end ilsc with February. 19J. are Sit GS @S,. against $4-.>Soo2l in the ,oi.r.
 pending molth> O. the ' recediu.. year Even iron and steel exports show marked Improvement, the total for til
 month oI FeoruaI. being $735S .2gG against $195J.2tN in February. 1901. un. sN549.l51 IT February. is04. For th. eight months ending with February tlr exports of iTon ana steel manuflet tilr- are $G-, ,CGS,=-i. against $Sl ,571.6S5 in th corr bonding months O. inc precad in~ year. Manufactures of cotton sho, an increase of $9.001GC0 over the co,
 responding Ic'i"d of last year: man ufactutes of ieathcr, an increase Of <3. Ci0.o0o' paraflin. which a few month go showed q decrease. now shows gain of nearly $2,0CG,GG0 ove. the COT responding months Of last year. whil
 ia nearly &H If the other importau
 I22nufactured articles exported thar
 are gains over last year. The tots exports of manufactures fall, for th
 ei@hts month ending with FeDruary
 but $l2J0o,C00 below those of the sam
 months of last year while the fact tha
 in2nuf@ct1les of iron and steel alon
 aie 1Ioo0,0G0 less than in the efgl
 months Of last year, shows that i
 otcer articles there h@s been q decide gain.