Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
Money to Spend Abroad.


According to the official figures the
imports of the eleven months ending
with May were $943, 597, 1S4 and the ex-
ports $1,924, 493, 293. For the twelve
months ending with May the imports are
S1,016, To, PAS and the exports SLAB
1873, 766. AS the largest imports in any
earlier fiscal year were 1908, 320,94S, in
1902, it is quite apparent that the total
imports of the present fiscal year will
exceed those of any preceding year, and
that they viii also exceed $1,000, 000, 900,
since they have not fallen below $73,
100000 in any month of the last year.
and are in the eleven months within
$57 100000 of the $1,000 100000 line.
1t was only in the year 1872 that the
total commerce first touched the one bill
ion dollar line, and in 1900 it first touch
ed the two billion dollar line. Running
back through the century it may be said
that the total imports and exports of
1900 amounted to $162, 000,000 in 1880,
S144, 100000; in 1850, $31S, 900; in
1860, 1857 100000, in 1870, $S2S, 000,-
600. In 1872 the total commerce was
$1,070, 772, 663; in 1880 it was $1,503,
100000, and in 1890 $1,647 100000. I'm
1900 it first crossed the two billion dol
lar line, being in that year 1924, co.,
600; in 1901, $2,311 100000; in 1902, 3d.
2S5, 100000, and in 1903 seems likely to
exceed $2,400,000,000.
OF the more than one billion dollars
worth of imports for the full year, man
ufacturers' materials will form nearly
$500,000000 value. In the ten months
whose figures are completed by the treas
ury bureau of statistics manufacturers
materials formed AN per cent of the
total imports, and in the latest month
available, April they formed 49.77 per
cent. The percentage which these mate
rails for use of the manufacturers form
of the grand total is larger In that part
of the fiscal year whose figures are COM
plete than of any preceding year. In
1902 manufacturers materials formed
49, 10 per cent of the total imports; in
1900. 45. 76 per cent; in 1898, ~ per cent:
in 1895, 81 per cent; in 1890, 34.5 per
cent; In 1885, SO. 1 per cent? in 1870, 23.2
per cent; in 1860 20.4 per cent, and In
1910, 21.2 per cent Of the total imports.
Our Internal Trade.
Wonderful as are these figures relat-
ing to our foreign commerce, they ap-
pear small when placed in contrast with
our domestic commerce The stupendous
volume of the internal trade of this amaz-
ing country may be judged by the fact
that during the year ending June 80,
1902, the railroads of the United States
earned for carrying freight alone more
than 81, 200, 900 000-a sum greater than
the total value of our imports and near
~ equal to our total exports. 1t is Au-
rious coincidence that the number of tons
of freight handled was almost exactly
equal to the number of dollars charged
for hauling til, 0315,717 tons of
freight and $1,2O7, ,s4b freight reve-
nue.. Let any one that likes try TO esti-
mate the total value Of that enormous
bulk Of freight and in his calculations
let him take into account also the value
of goods going by steamers, by express,
through the mails and by electric and
freight lines. No other country in the
world can show the fifth part Of the do
nestle trade which the United States en-
joys.