Arizona republican., 1903-11-23
Products of This Country Average S5,0O0,0 ,0OO
OCTOBER BROKE RECORD
The Remarkable Growth of Export Business of United States Shown By Comparison with the Same Month Generation Ago.

Washington, Nov. 22.-Five million dollars a day is. a snug sum for the people of single country to realize as the sale of the products of their farms. forests. fisheries and mines. The eX- ports of domestic products of the Unit ed States in the month of October. 1s03, averaged more than five million dollars for every day of the month. and for every business day of the month aver aged practically six million dollars a day. The total exports of the months. as shown by the figures Of the De through it's Bureau of Statistics. amounted to s16O, O,37O,O5S, which would average more than five million dollars for every day in the month and practi- cally six million dollars for each bUsi- ness day in the month. From the port of New York alone the exports for the month were $51,S67, ,942, or nearly two million dollars for each business day of the month.
 This expcrtation in October. amount ing to $1G0, O00 900, exceeds that of any | preceding month in the history of our | commerce. with the single exception Cf October, 1900, when the total was S1s3 i 3S9,6S0. For the ten months ending with October, the total exports were $1, 149, ,694, ,933, and for the twelve months ending with October. the total was ST ! 422. .SS7,954. These totals for ten and twelve months respectively, are larger than in any preceding year except 1901 and 1900, in which the ten and twelve months totals slightly exceeded those | Of the present year.
 | Imports in October also exceeded those of any preceding October. with the exception Of October. 1902. They amounted to s1S. .931, ,OO5, or a little over two and one-half million dollars Der day. The exports were as already shown. over five million dollars per day. thus leaving the average total excess of imports over two and one half million dollars per day. The total excess of exports over imports for the month of October was SIS. .459.0 .054. OF S, .292 for each day of the month.
 or s2,9G5,15O for each business day of the month
 Of this enormous total of 160 millions
 of exports. or six million dollars day
 for each business day. the largest sin
 gle item was cotton. amounting to s1 million dollars, while the remaining lGC
 million dollars was divided among oth- Ter farm products, manufactures. the lproductS of the mines, forests and fish ieries. The iigh price Of cotton during the past twelve months reSlted in a re- lduction of purchases abroad in the ear
 Her months of the year, and thus a
 shCrtaeg of stocks, and as a conse- quence, the first month of the cotton year, October, showed a very large eN-
 portaticn of cotton, and at unusually
 high prices, the average price pel pound for the cotton exported bein- 101 cents, against an average Of S-I
 cents in October. 1902; S1 cents in Oc-
 tober 1901; 9.9 cents in October. 1900
 and cents in October. 1899.
 A comparison of October exports with
 those of October of earlier years illus.
 trates the remarkable growth Of Oul
 export trade. Tn 1870 the October ex. ports were % millions; in 1880 S5 mill ions: in 1S90 9S millions and in 1903
 160 millions, or more than in any pre-. ceding month except that of October 1900.