Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-30
COMMERCE IMMENSE
TRAFFIC OF U. S. WITH NoN-coN.
TIGUoUs TERRITORY NEAR
LY $1o0,ooo,o0o.
Report of Department of Commerce
Bureau of Statistics Shows Trade to
be in Healthful Condition-Fgures
for Eleven Months Over $4,000, 900.

The commerce of the United States
with it's contiguous territory will
amount to nearly $100,000,000 in the
fiscal year just ended. The figures for
eleven months ending with May, 1908,
as announced by the department of
commerce through it's bureau of statis-
tics, amount to $S6,5S1.026 and as
those for the single month of May
amount to nearly 100000, it is appar-
ent that the total for the full year Iall
but little below $1O0,000,000. OF this
grand total of nearly $100,000,000 of
commerce with the non-contiguous ter
ritory, more than one-third is merchan-
disc shipped to that territory.
Of the grand total of $S6,5S1, 026, in
the eleven months ending with May,
$39,0S0,779 was merchandise shipped
to Porto Rico, Hawaiian Islands, Phil
ippines, Guam, Tutuila and Alaska. OF
this total of practically $93,000,000 Of
merchandise shipped to noncontiguous
territory in the eleven months ending
with May, little over $11, 900 900 went
to Porto Rico and $40, 100000 to the
Hawaiian Islands, $S,000,O00 to Alaska,
a little over $3,000,000 to the Philip
pines and nearly 100000 worth to
Guam and Tutuila. OF the $50, 100000
worth of merchandise received from
the noncontiguous territory during the
eleven months, nearly $22,000,000
worth came from the Hawaiian islands,
$11 100000 from the Philippines, ST.
100000 from Porto Rico and 100000
600 from Alaska.
These from s11,ooo,ooo from
the Philippines, $10,500000 from
Porto Rico and $1O,0O0,O0O from Alas.
ka. This $10,000,000 from Alaska is
merchandise and does not include the
gold received from that territory which
amounted in the eleven months to $4,-
54,67T. Adding these shipments of gold
Alaska sent us to the grand total OF
merchandise above mentioned, and es-
timating the month of June, the grand
! total will probably reach the round
sum of S100,o0O,OOO.
Taking up the details of this commerce
of $100,000,000 between the United States
and its contiguous territory, it may he
| said that the principal articles received
| from that territory, during the II months
| for which the detailed figures are given,
are as follows: From the Hawaiian Is
I lands, sugar amounted to $21 100000 in
value, coffee S225,929, hides and skins,
S69,1T1, tobacco and manufactures thereof
/ 81, S13642 (of which $1,6Sl ,60S is cigars),
coffee ST12,990, and fruits and nuts $751;
| S42. From the Philippine Island, Manila
1 hemp $10,66s657, sugar $270,729, tobacco
and cigars $56,732. From Alaska the prln-
cipal shipments We're canned salmon ST.
4O1, 124, other fish $753,412, furs and fur
skins $395.793, whalebone $115,994, and
copper $100,553.
The shipments to the territory in ques-
| ton include much wider range of arti-
Giles. To the Hawaiian Islands the total
| for the IL months amounted to over $10,-
100000 of which S1,361,3u6 was bread
stuffs little over S1,O00.00 manufactures
of iron and steel, another 81, 100000 manu-
features of cotton, S750,00O manufactures
of wood, 100000 provisions, nearly an
other $500 600 mineral oils and a like value
in fertilizers To porto Rico the principal
shipments were cotton manufactures
about 100000, manufactures of iror
and steel over SI,250, 900, provisions ovel
/ 81, 900, breadstuffs over 81 1000, 000 man
ufactures of wood $4,000. To the Phil
ippines the principal items of exports were
iron and steel manufactures over 100000
spirits, wines and malt liquors over $500,
600, cotton manufactures over 100000
mineral oils nearly 100000 and bread
stuffs about $4,000. 10 Alaska tn,
largest item was iron and steel manufac
lures nearly $2,000,0o0, provisions nearl.
ST. 100000, breadstuffs nearly 100000
manufactures of tin nearly $500, OOO man
| ufactures of wool over $250,00O, vegetable
, over $250,000, and tobacco and manufac
lures thereof nearly $4,000. To Guam
. and Tutuila the total shipments for TIN
II months We're $S6,S12, of which $z0,5T
was manufactures of wood, S13,067 manu-
!. features of iron and steel, $9,524 fish, 80,
: 3OS manufactures of cotton and breadstuff
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