Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-24
TRADE WITH ISLANDS,.
Distant Possessions Building Up Com
merce with the United States

Washington. July 23.-Commerce
with the distant possessions of the
United States. including the Philip
pines. Guam. Tutuila, Alaska, Hawaii
and Porto Rico, has developed with
great rapidity during the last year,
and the announcement is made by the
Department of Commerce 6f Labor that
by July 1. when the fiscal year ended.
this commerce reached the snug sum
of s100, 09O, go Figures for eleven
months of this year have been COM
ple.ed, and make total Of $ss.5Si,02S.
The United States proper received
more from its non-contiguous territory
during this time than it sent to that
territory. Something over S.. N90, GO in
merchandise was supplied to this terri
tory, while $50, 100000 worth of the
products of our distant possessions was
received. OF this total of practically
$50. 000, 600 of merchandise shipped to
non-contiguous territory in the eleven
months ended with May, little over
81 ,0Go, 900 went 10 Porto Rico. lo.00o. 600
10 the Hawaiian Islands. sS,g01. 900 to
Alaska, little over s3.J00.0n0 to the
Philippines and nearly $780, 600 worth to
Guam and Tutuila- OF the s53. 019, 600
Of merchandise received from the non
contiguous territory in the eleven
months, nearly So. OH, 800 worth came
from the Hawaiian Islands, FL 900, go
from the Philippines. 80. Jo0, 600 from
Porto Rico and SO, 0O0, 600 from Alaska.
The principal articles received in the
eleven months for which the detailed
figures are given, are as follows: From
the Hawaiian Islands, sugar amounted
to 81, 0o0. 0dG in value: coffee, SIS, s2e:
hides and skins. ssa,111, and fruits and
nuts, So, SO. From Porto Rico. sugar.
s6,S9l ,64i; tobacco and manufactures
thereof, sLSI3,s42 (of which 81 .5s1, sos is
cigars: coffee, s712.9 $40, and fruits and
nuts, S2S1.S42. From the Philippine
Islands, manila hemp, SO, SIS, 657:
sugar. S210..29, and tobacco and cigars.
$50, 49, From Alaska the principal
shipments Were canned salmon, IS, f01,-
12+: other fish. s753,412; furs ana fur
skins, s395.793: whalebone, SlI5.ss4, and
copper, sl00.553.
The shipments to the territory in
question include a much wider range
OF articles. To the Hawaiian Islands
the total Of the eleven months amount
ed to over sI0.000. 600, Of which 81, 361. COG
was breadstuffs, little over $1,000. 900
manufactures Of iron and steel, ancth-
er 81, 003 900 manufactures of cotton.
Sl5C.000 manufactures of wood $500. 900
provisions nearly another $500, 600 min
eral oils, and like value in fertilizers.
To Porto Rico the principal shipments
We're. Cotton manufactures. about
s., 600, coo: manufactures Of iron and
steel. over s1,250.o00; provisions. over
81, $50. 600; breadstuffs, over 81 900, 900: |
and manufactures of wood. $500. 100 To !
the Philippines the principal items Of |
export were: Iron and steel manufac- |
lures, over 100000 spirits, wines and |
malt liquors, over 100000; cotton
over 100000; mineral !
oils, nearly $500. 900, and breads1ufes.
about s259,009. To Alaska the largest |
item was iron and steel manufS cturcs.
nearly 100000; provisions, nearly
3, 000.o 600; breadstuffs, nearly $500. 900:
of tin, nearly $500. 600:
of wool, over $3.50, 600:
yegeta bles. over s250GG1. and tobacco |
and manufactures thereof, nearly S25O.-
no. To Guam and Tutuila the total
for the eleven months were
's6 So, of which s20,573 was manufac-
-ures of wood, s13.067 manufactures of
ron and steel, 1854 fish. s9303 manu-
actures of cotton, and breadstuffs,
1891