The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-05
OUR TRADE ABOARD
nAvY INCREASES IN A,rxR-
 E N YoAN EXPORTS.
Tn 17oo sl,243,547 Worth Went From America, and in l9o2 forsign Purchases Amount
 cd to 9lo3, ,641, ,4C.

Waehington. April 4.-(speciai.)-The growth in the exportation of manufAc- t9rss from the United states and snsir oisrfoution to countries and grand divis- ions are discussed In much detail in
 monograph prepared by the Treasury Bu- resu of Statistics. for publication Tn the April Summary of Commerce and Ff-
 nance. It shows the exportations of man
 present time and their distribution. coun-
 try by country and article by article, In
 each year from 1892 to 1902.
 The exportation of manufactures has
 grown from $1,243,547 in 1790 to 17.5S0. 466 in 1850, Q0R.6e.05 in 1880. s15l ,l02 376 in 1890.
 and N0a. .6ll ,4m in 1902. In i790 manufac-
 tures formed SIS per cent of the total
 donestice exports; in ls5o 13.03 per cent;
 cent. and in H isc2. as.H per cent. This
 shows that the exports of manufactures
 are increasing much more rapidly than
 those of other great classes or the ex-
 ports. This growth in the exportation of
 period since 1885. In 1895 the total exports
 of manufactures were $1s3,595, ,743, having
 gained Ss1,000.000 in the fifteen. years be- tween 1eo0 and 1895. In the eight years
 from 1soS to 1908 the increase was $40 ,O00,- : oO0. Thus in the eight years since 1ss6.
 the increase in the exportation of manu-
 features has been nearly three times as
 much as in the fifteen years immediately
 prior to 1SyS.
 ho StdtcHiehIB UT ulottipupoh VI tio
 manufactures exported also show some
 striking and interesting facts. They show, for example, that practically one half Of
 the manufactures exported from the
 United States go to Europe and that the
 exportation of manufactures to Europe has grown from S76, 10000 in 1892 to 197,- Oc0,000 in 1902. To North America other
 than the United States, our exports or manufactures have grown from $33. .000. 600
 in 1899 to $100. GOO, 900 in 1902, of which $54,- | 000 0f0 Inc n British North Amer
 tea. British territory, including both the United Kingdom and its colonies. takes
 one half of the manufactures exported
 from the United States. or $2OO ,0O0, 900, in round terms, of the total exportation. of
 $400. .000. 900 in value in 1902; while the Uni ted Kingdom alone took $100, 900. or one-fourth of our total exportatlon of manufactures in 1902.
 Considering the exports by great groups
 of articles. 1t may be said that manu- features of iron and steel as group form the largest item, in the exports of manu- features. having grown from $o2.Wo In lsVO to $222,000 in 1S30 $1,00O000 in 1S50 about S. 000,0Q in 1860, $13 0O0000 In 1870. $25.0O0. OOo in 1890, and s12l, GOO oOO in 1900: while in 1902, owing to the unusual demand In the United States for iron and steel man. ufactures, the exports thereof dropped to $9s, ,000,000. Mineral oils form the second largest item among the groups p of d manu- nan '. factures, having grown from $s0.OoO.oOo ln 1870 to $66, ,000.0OO in 1902. Copper manufac- tures rank third, the total exports hay. ing grown from 1.5O0, 600 in 1860 to 00o in 1890 and Al, ,000, 900 in 1902. Cotton man. ufactures have grown from s4.250.000 in
 1850 to $1O. O00.0OO in 1860, s24,O0o,00O in 1900 and $32, 900, 900 in 1902. Leather and its manufactures have increased their ex- portations from $1.50o.OO0 in 1860 to s6.50o. 600 in 1S80 $12,O00, 600 in 1890, $27.000.000 in | 1900, and $2s. 900 in 1902. Exports of az
 ricultural implements have grown from
 $1 O00 600 In 1870 to $4000,0OO in 1890. $l6eoO. | 900 in 1900 and O.0O0 in 1902.
 Twenty-eight articles or groups of ar | ticles exceeded $1,000.000 in the value of l their respective exports in the fiscal year | 1902. Of these twenty-eight groups now | exceeding $1.OOo,O 900 each in value annual | ly, not a single one aggregated as much | as a million dollars in 1920. and only three groups exceeded one million dollars as | late as 1850; in 1S60 eight groups exceeded | each one million dollars; in 1880 the mum l Der of groups exceeding one million dol | lars in value was thirteen: in 1S90 twenty and in 1902, as already indicated, twenty | eight exceeded one million dollars each II
 the value of their annual expectations.