Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-24
EXPORTS BEAT RECORD.
Gain Over the Previous Year of $50,
o00,0C0.

Washington, Nov. 23.-The export
| record of the United States in the
twelve months ending with October.
1894. just presented by the Department
OF Commerce and Labor through It's
Bureau Of Statistics, is especially note
worthy i'll view of the fact that des-
pi;e the unusually small exports of
breadstuffS the total value OF exports
of all kinds is larger than in any pre-
| celilg year ending with the date
above named. The exports of bread
| stuffs in the ten months ending with
| October are less than half in value
those of the corresponding period OF
1903 OF 1902. and only One-third as
much as In the corresponding period OF
1871 or 1899. Yet, despite this fact,
Ghat the value of breadstuffs exported
falls Sc million dollars below the rec
/ ord for the corresponding period of last
wear and 15S million below the record
| for the corresponding period of l"ol
! the total value of all merchandise eN-
| ported in the twelve months ending
with October 1904, is sixty million dol
lars greater than in the corresponding
period of last year, and exceeds by
nearly ten million dollars the largest
total ever known in a twelve mohths
period ending with October
This remarkable fact. that despite
loss of from SS6. 000. 900 to $l5S 100000 in
exports of one group of articles, tn"
grand total of exports exceeds that OF
any preceding year. is accounted for
chiefly by a corresponding growth in
the eAportation of manufactures as Il
group and of raw cotton. Exports VI
manufactures in the nine months ttd-
ing with September. 1904. exceed by
s45. 900 900 those for the corresponding
,eriod of the preceding year, and the
figures of October when completed Will
probably show that the exports OF
, manufactures in the ten mohthS
r.riod are more than $50 000, 900 in eX-
/ cess Of those for the corresponding
| period of the preceding year In il
large number of the important CLASSES
of manufac tures the figures OF recent
months Shcw a marked growth Over
,hos. for the corresponding period OF
last wear. The other factor III pro-
duciug this remarkable growth. WINCH
has Offset the reduction in exports Oh
brcadstuffs is raw cotton. of which the
avrnrts in the ten months ending win
October exceed by $22,0O0.ooo those oi
the corresponding period of last year
and by $50, 10000 those OF the ''i
Responding period of 1902.
Among the articles grouped DH ''ie
pure1u of Statistics under the genera
tarm of manufactures, iron ana steer
,,,.,nufartures show for the nine mouths
r,, which 4 record is already at mana
500 ooo ooo increase owe: the cores
nonding period of the preceding year :
800, nm increase of $23 900, 900. ana
mineral oil an increase of about sio'-
| ana ooo while in most other manufac-
,ured articles the figures for 1904 snow
little change AS compared with those Oh
| The Immediately preceding year
In exports of provisions the hSufes
fo, tho fen months ending with octo-
bcr 1904. show a fan of about Sll.ooo.-
600 as compared with the correspond
ing period of 1903. while exports OF i've
| cattle show an increase of S4.300.OO0 III
the ten months period OF 1904 as co'i'-
r,red with the corresponding period OF
the preceding year. In DreadStuhS '''e
reduction occurs in practically all of
the important classes. Corn exports
during the ten months ending win
October, 1904. fall $23,000.000 below the
figures for the corresponding period or
1903; wheat expectations, over sal ,ooo' =
600 below those of the corresponding
period of last year: and flour exports
SIG. 900 900 below the same months OF
1903.
The preliminary statement of the Bu-
reau of Statistics shows an eXporta =
ton of only 10,9S2,193 bushels of wheat
i'm the ten months ending with October.
1904, against 81, 354,19S bushels in the
corresponding months of last year;
9.91S,105 barrels of flour, against 15.-
332SS7 barrels in the corresponding
months of last year: and 36,99S,92l
bushels of corn. against S0.10l.526
bushels in the corresponding months of
last year.
The fact that the grand total Of eX-
ports for the twelve months ending
with October. 1904, exceeds in value
that of any corresponding twelve
months in the history of the export
trade. is thus rendered especially re-
markable in view of the great reduce
ton in exports of breadstuffs above
mentioned. The figures of the twelve
months ending with October. 1904.
corresponding period of 1898 amounting
tn over 500 million dollars. while the
import figures for the corresponding
period show an increase of little less
than 200 millions The export figures
for the twelve months ending with Oc-
tober 1904. show an increase of 20 per
cent, and the import figures for that
year an increase of % per cent over
the figures for the corresponding
months ending with october, 1898
The table which follows shows the
! total value of merchandise imported
into and exported from the United
, States in the twelve months ending
with October in each year from 1893 to
;; 1904:
Year ending oct 81
Imports. Exports
1st.s