Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
A MARKED INCREASE.
EXPORTS FROM TIE UNITED
STATES TO BRITISH NORTH
AMERICA.
This Years Business in That Line Ex-
oeeds All Past .Years-TWelve Mil
lions in Eleven Months Just Passed
imports Have Grown.

Washington, July G.-Exports from
the United States to Canada in the
fiscal year just ended show larger
to,al than in any preceding year. Elev-
Gil months figures just completed by
the bureau OF statistics Of the depart
nent OF commerce show that the in
crease in exports to British North
AnIoriea' has been IL million dollars
in the IL months of 1908 compared
with the corresponding months Of the
preceding year, and indicate that the
increase for the fiscal year will be
something more then IL million dol
lars. This is larger increase than
in any year in the history OF our com
merce with Canada, except 1898 when
the increase was slightly greater than
that of the Last ;iscal year. Under
the tern "Eritfsh North America the
bureau Of statistics groups Quebec,
Ontario. atsaitoba, and the northwest
territory; Nova Scotia, New Bruins
wick, and Prince Edward Island:
| Newfoundland ana Labrador; and
British Columbia. BY far the most
important of these groups, commercial
ly, is Quebec, Ontario. etc, the exports
from the United States to which form
s per cent of the total exports to Brit
ish North America; and it is in the
| exports to those provinces that the
chief growth has occurred During
the II months ending with May the
I total value of exports to Quebec, On
i tario, ETC., was 9s million dollars,
! against 81 millions in the correspond
| ing months of the preceding year; to
[ Move Scotia, etc. the total was seven
millions, against five and a half mill
/ lions in the II months of 1902; to
/ British Columbia, five and half mill
| lions. compared with seven millions in
| the corresponding months of the pre-
| cedins year: and to Newfoundland and
| labrador two and half millions,
| against little less than two millions
| in the same months of 1902.
The total exports to British North
America from the Tilted States for the
! fiscal year seem likely to be abount 125
| millions against 112 millions in 1902,
/ 107 millions in 1901 and 81 millions in
1900.
Germany Greater.
Not only has the growth in exports
from the United States to Canada been
greater in the year just ended than in
|
ception, but that growth has been
greater than to any other country ex.
cept Germany To Germany The in
crease In the IL months of 1903 for
which figures are now available was 81
millions; to Mexico the increase was
2 millions, to Argentina. ~ millions;
| to all of South America ga millions
and to all of Africa. 4 millions. Thus
the actual expectations to Canada in
the fiscal year just ended will be great
err than to any other country except
!, Germany.
The imports.
Meantime the imports into the Unit
ed States from Canada have grown but
not with equal rapidity. The total i'm
ports for the year just ended will
amount to about IL million dollars
the total imports from British North
i America for. 1898 having been about
i SO million dollars; while the growth in
our exports to British North Americs
during that same period will be about
/ n millions. Thus the total exports