Arizona republican., 1902-12-22
MANUFACTURES
 SENT ABROAD One Third of the COuntry'S Export Business
This Year it Will Amount to More Than Four Hundred Millions. Ex- ceeding the Business of Every Other Year but One

Washington, December H.-Manufac-
 lures now form one-third of the eX-
 ports from the United States, larger proportion than in any preceding year. The figures of the bureau of statistics for the ten months of the year for which data is now complete show that manufactures formed during that pc riod 32. .61 per cent of the total exports of the country, while the highest per centage in any preceding fiscal year was that of 1900, in which the exports of manufactures formed 31.65 per cent of the total exports. In no other fiscal year have manufactures formed as much as 30 per cent of the total eX- ports. The figures of the ten months now available indicate that the total exports of manufactures during the calendar year 1902 will reach about S415, GOO, 900, or more than in any pre- ceding fiscal year. save in the excep-
 tional year 1900, when the total was
 S43S.OOO eco.
 The bureau of statistics has prepared a statement which for the first time shows the exports of manufactures in each year from 179O down to date. Dur ing the first half of the past century.
 the share which manufactures formed of the total exports was small, rang ing from 7.S per cent in 1900 to 11.S per
 cent in 1925. 13 per cent in 1850. and 12.7 per cent in 1860. Since that date there has been a marked upward ten dcncy in the percentage which manu-
 factTres form of the total exports. In 1863 they formed 16.1 per cent of the total exports. 1864 IFS per cent in 1871
 17.3 per cent. From 1871 to 1891 the per centage which manufactures formed of the total exports did not materially change. Tn 1891 they formed 19.3 per cent of the total exports, in 1894 211 per cent, in 1895 23.1 per cent, in 1896 26.8 per cent, in 1899 2S.2 per cent. in 1900 3l.6 Ter cent and in the ten months of the calendar year 1902 have formed 22.G1 per cent of the total exports. The total value of the manufactures cX- pOt.e1 in 1900 was only 2.5OO OO0. and never reached as much as S1O, GOO, ,0OO prior to 1S4O. From that time it has rapidly moved forward, being 1000
 eco in 1850. S25, ,COO. GOO in 1854. $40 O0O, GOO in 1860, $6S GOO, coo in 1870, and in 1877 for
 the first time crossed the S1O0 GOO. .OO0 line. It was not until 1886 that the total exportation of manufactures reached S2O0. COG coo per annum. but in
 FDN'f'NHfN'Nf ceeded $4GO, ,0OO.DOO, and has so continued above S4)0, 0,0CO.000 since that date.
 One feature Of the exportatiOn O.. manufa lures which is especially inter ezting and important is the large pro portion of manufactures which find maIk ket in the chief manufacturing coIntrics of the world. A statement prepared b. the bureau of statistics shows that more than one-h half of the manufactures exported rom the Unit ed States now go to Europe, the great
 manufacturing section of the world. and that about onc-fourth Of the total exports of manufactures go to North America, the other fourth being about equally distributed between South Am erica. Asia. Oceania and Africa. Five great articles form the bulk of the cX- pOItations of manufactures from the
 United States to Europe-Coppcr. min eral oil, iron and steel manufactures. leather and agricultural implements. The annual eXportation of copper min eral oil and iron and steel manufac- lures each exceeds siO.O00, coo, while that of leather exceeds S2O. O0O GOO, and agricultural implements over $10OO0. 900.