The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-11
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.


n p. AUSTIN, chief statistician for
VI the United States treasury depart
ment, has a very interesting article in
the North American Review for July
on "Our Manufactures in the Markets
OF the World Mr. Austin has dis
covered some facts that will surprise
people who have paid little or no at
tention to Americas export trade. He
finds, for instance, that out of $780,,
O00,0 900 worth Of manufactures exported
last year 500. GOO OOo worth went to the
United Kingdom, ana another $780,
000.000 to her colonial dependencies.
So we are driving England, the first
great manufacturing nation. not only
out of the worlds markets. but out of
the markets she has long considered
her own personal property. Our gem
eral exports have increased in value
from $40, 600, 900 in 1900 to 81. 400 10000
in 1900 : they are still growing by
tremendous leaps. The expansion Of
our manufacturing exports is, accord
ing to Mr.. Austin. stiIl more remark
able; from a value Of S2O00.OOO in 1900
they have grown to a value of S439. 600.
600 in 1900.
The expert says: considering the
distributions by grand divisions and
the relation Of manufactures to our
total exports to these divisions, it may
be said. still speaking in round terms,
that of the $500, 600. 600 worth Of man
ufactures exported last year. 5000, 900,
600. or one-half of the total. went to
Europe; S10O,000,0OO, or one-fourth OF
the total. to North America: S43. 600. 600.
or about eleven per cent of the total,
10 Asia; S27, 900, coo, or about seven
per cent of the total. to Oceanica:
S2300O.000. or about six per cent Of the
total, to South America, and Sf1 .OO0,-
600. or nearly three per cent, to Africa.
Manufactures formed practically
twenty per cent Of the total exports to
Europe, thirty-three per cent of those
90 Africa. fifty-two per cent Of those to
North America. sixty-two per cent Of
those 20 South America, sixty-eight per
cent of those to Asia. and eighty per
cent OF those to Oceanica. To Europe
the exports of manufactures from the
United States have grown from S76,-
100000 in 1892 tc practically $500, 600 600
in 1902; and to North America. from
S3S, 600. 600 in 1892 to 500. 100000 in 1902
70 Asia they have increased in the
same time from $4,000, 900 to S4S. OOO,-
0C0; TO Oceanica. from s11, OOO,O to
$4,000 900: to South America. from ST.
100000 to S2S,0OoOo0. and to Africa from
$4,000, 900 to $1,000, OO0"
The United States is today the great
est manufacturing nation in the world.
Not so many years ago it stood at the
bottom of the list of the nations prom
inent for manufactures. In 1860 the
United Kingdom stood first, with a
valuation for manufactures that year
CT s.. sos 600. 900. Frances manufactures
were worth S2,O92, 900, OOO Germany's
were reckoned at 81. 995. 900 .OO0 while the
United States brought up the rear of
the procession with sf.907 900 900.
In 1894 the eminent statistician, Null
han. put the United States at the top.
and the rest nowhere As a matter of
fact. approximately. the value OF the
manufactures Of the United States was
nearly as much as that OF her three
competitors combined. Today It Is
much more than ali the rest can mus
ter. a truly remarkable showing for a
nation as young as this republic.