Arizona republican., 1903-07-20
Business of U. $. With Its
 NOn-COntiguOuS Territory
Is A HUNDRED MILLIONS
More Than One Third of the Volume Is Now Made Up of Merchandise Sent to the Islands and Alaska. The Variety of Imports.

Washington, July 19.-The commerce tiguous territory will amount to nearly 100 million dollars in the fiscal year just ended. The figures for eleven months ending with May, 1905. as am nounced by the department of com merce through it's bureau of statistics, amount to SS6, ,5Sl ,026. and as those for the single month of May amount to nearly million dollars. it is apparent that the total for the full year will fall but little below 100 million dollars. Of this grand total of nearly 100 millions of commerce with the non contiguous territory, more than one-third is mer- chandise shipped to that territory.
 Of the grand total of $S6, ,5S1. 026 in the eleven months end with May. $33. OSO, 779 was merchandise shipped to Porto Rico, Hawaiian islands, Philippines, Guam, Tutuila and Alaska. Of this total of practically B millions of mer- chandise shipped to non-contiguous territory in the eleven months ending with May. a little over Il millions went to Porto Rico, 10 millions to the Ha- waiian islands, millions to Alaska. little over 31s millions to the Philip
 
 dollars worth to Guam and Tutuila. Of the B millions of merchandise re- ceived from the on-contiguous terri tory during the eleven months. nearly 22 million dollars worth came from the Hawaiian islands. II millions from the Philippines 1O1a millions from Por- to Rico and 10 millions from Alaska. This 10 millions from Alaska is mer- chandise and does not include the gold received from that territory. which amounted in the eleven months to ! $4.540.6 .671. Adding these shipments of gold Alaska sent us to the grand total of merchandise above mentioned. and estimating the month of June, the grand total will probably reach the round sum of SlO0, 100000.
 Taking up the details of this com merce of S1O0. .OOe. 900 between the Unit ed States and it's non-ContiguoIs ter ritory 1t may be said that the princi- pal articles received from that territory during the eleven months for which the detailed figures are given, are as fol- lows: From the Hawaiian islands, sugar mounted to 21 million dollars in value. coffee S225, ,929, hides and skins S69, III, and fruits and nuts $67, 7,510. From Porto Rico. sugar $6.997, ,644 to- bacco and manufactures thereof $1,- Sl2.642 (of which 1881, 6eS is cigars). coffee SIP 990, and fruits and nuts $231,- SAP. From the Philippine islands. man fla hemp $1O, ,66S, ,657. sugar S270,729. to- bacco and cigars $56,73 From Alas ka the principal shipments were can ned salmon $S, ,4O1 .124, other fish $753. 412. furs and fur skins $395, 793 whale bone Sl15.994, and copper S100,552.
 The shipments to the territory in question include a much wider range of articles. To the Hawaiian islands 1 the total for the eleven months amounted to over 10 million dollars, of which $l.361, 306 was breadstuifs. lit | tie over one million manufactures of iron and steel, another million manu- | fatcures of cotton. three quarters of a million manufactures Of wood, a half | million provisions, nearly another half | million mineral oils and a like value in | fertilizers. To Porto Rico the princi- | pal shipme nts were cotton manufac- | lures about million dollars, manufac- | lures of iron and steel over million and quarter. provisions over million and a quarter, breadstuffs over q mill | ion, manufactures or wood q half mill ion. To the Philippines the principal
 
 manufactures over half a million, spir- its. wines and malt liquors over S400.0C0. cotton manufactures over $500, coo, min eraI oils nearly $30O.COO. and breadstuffs about a quarter of a million. To Alas ka the target item was iron and steel manufactures nearly million dollars, provisions nearly million. breadstuffs nearly half a million, manufactures of tin nearly half q million, manufactures of wool over quarter of a million. vegetables over a quarter of a million. and tobacco and manufactures thereof nearly a quarter of a million. To Guam and Tutuila the total shipments for the eleven months were $96,Sl2, of which $20,579 was manufactures of wood. $13.
 06T manufactures of iron and steel, S9,524 fish, $9. .30S manufactures Of cot ton. and breadstuffs $S.357.