Arizona republican., 1902-04-08
MATERIALS FOR
 MANUFACTURERS Tie Wonderful Increase in
 Imports Of Them
$57.OO0,OO0 Worth More of Them Brought in Last Year Than ill Any Previous Year-All But Four Mil lion of the Total Increase Of Imports.

imports.
 Washington, April 1.-The announce ment of the treasury bureau of sta tistics that the importations of n.-nu- lecturers materials have increased ! $57 ,00O, eco while the total imports of all i kinds were increasing but $61,O00, GOO, | has awakened interest in the details of ! these importations. To supply the in | formation thus asked, the bureau of | showing the principal articles which [ make up the class known 2s manufac- | turers materials, and comparing the | quantity imported in the present fiscal i year with the same months of the preceding year. This comparison by quantities is still more striking than that which presented merely values. | for it shows material decrease in the cost of the manufacturing material per unit Of quantity in many cases.
 Raw cotton, silk, wool, flores. to- bacc0, hides, rubber, wood. tin, copper and chemicals form the bulk cf the i'm portatons of raw materials for use in manufacturing. In nearly ali of these Q comparison of the statistics and val ues of the inlpOrtations of 1902 with those of preceding years shows that the increase in quantity is greater than the increase in value. In raw cotton, for example, the quantity imported ir the eight months ending with Febru- ary was 63, 30S, ,561 pounds against 3O,- S3i,S30 pounds in the corresponding | he. ,fI I,e fl ;., the past eight months was S7.496,S SS3 1 against S4.542, ,5S1 in the eight months of last year. In other words the Quan- tity more than doubled while the value increased but about 65 per cent. I'm portations of India rubber were, in the last eight months, 8, S25 c60 pounds against 332S1,736 pounds in the same months ending with February. 1900; while the declared value e the inn portatiCns Of the past eight months was $16.396,!5 against $21.47494S in the same months ending with February. 1900 In this case. it will be observed, ] the quantities for the two periods arc almost identical. while the value in 1 1902 shows q reduction Of ah at 8 per cent as ccmpat 5d with t.-tt U- i90. l Raw silk also shows a decrease in the cost per unit of quantity. The imports of the eight months just ended were I S,S25.541 pounds against S,2l7.SSS pounds in the cor; esponding months ending with February. 1909: but the cost in the eight months just ended was $29.- 25S.631 against S31 .Sl3.GG2 in the eight months ending with February. 1900 In this case it will be observed that the quantities are almost identical, but that { the cost in the more recent period in about two and one-half millions less than that for the earlier period. Of . tin, for use in lnanufactu tin plate the imports of the past eight months were 41,452,951 pounds. valued at $11.- , l53ll2: while in the eight months end ing with February. 1900. the importa- tions were 43. 13S1S1 pounds. and the cost n,SS4.9S5. In this case the cost in the two periods was about identical. but the quantity in the 1902 period was about per cent greater than in that Of 1900 Of tobacco the imports of the past eight months were IS. 46S. 751 pounds. valued a $9.500 &66. while in the eight months ending with February. 1900. they were 12,627.S03 pounds valued at $S,295.142. Thus. while the quantity shows an increase of about 30 per cent. that of cost shows an increase of about ~' i'ei NNlll- ol NCOl Illt' ll1I)DTIS OI the past eight months are 94692. .9SS pounds. valued at $9909, 964, while n the eight months ending with Febru- alT, 1900, the total was 91,SO2 433 pounds. valued at $10,599,1Sl; an increase of about 3,0O0,00G pounds in 1902 over 1900. but decrease of about a half million dollars in cost. comparing the eight months period of the two fiscal years 1900 and 1902
 \ comparison of the figures of quan- tity in the past eight months with those of the eight months ending with Feb ruary 1901, shows a phenomenal in crease in practically all imports of manufacturers materials. The follow ing table shows the quantity of prin- cipal articles imported for use in man ufacturing in the eight months ending with February, 1902. compared with quantities in the eight months ending with February. 1901: