Arizona republican., 1904-03-28
GRAIN MOVEMENTS
Business iids Fallen Away
 at Only One Port
Exports Have Doubled in Ten Years and Fifty Per Cent Has Been Added to Imports.

Washington, March c6.-Recent de- velopments with reference to railway rates on grain to certain of the great ports of the country and the discus sions with reference to the growth in COmMsrCe of the various pcrts lend interest 10 a series of tables jIst pre- scented by the depaItm tment of commerce and labor through it's bureau of sta tistiCs. The tables show the total value Cf imports and exports through the various ports of the United States for q term Of years, and also group the ports by their general frontage upon the Atlantic the Gulf. the Pacific, the Northern border. and the Mexican border. The picture thus presented Of the commerce passing into and out of the country through the various Gror>ages is an interesting one. espe- clally as it shows the growth during a term of years.
 The tables shcw that very large proportion of the imports enter the country through the Atlantic ports and that the proportion or the import trade passing those ports differs little from that Of earlier days. in the export trade. however, the figures indicate a more rapid growth. CT, at least. more rapid proportiCnaJe growth in the ship men;s through the Gulf. the Mexican border. the Pacific, and the Northern border and Lake ports than through the ports fronting on th5 Atlantic Taking the Atlantic ports as a whole, the exports of 1893 amounted to S6i3.- 0C0.0O0. and in 1909. $920. .OOO. .OC0, an in crease of less than 70 per cent. In the case of the Gulf ports. the exports of 1883 were Sl31.0eO. GOO, and those of 1903. $33l Goo. .OOO, an iacerase of more than I5O per cent. The Mexican border ports show an increase in exports from S10, 0,OeO,O coo in 1893 to $27, ,OOG 900 in 1903, also a gain of more than I5O per cent. The Pacific ports show gain in exports from S3g,O0O,OO0 in 1903 to $7S.- OGO,OOO in 1903, an increase Of nearly 1G0 per cent. The Northern border and Lake ports show a growth m exports from $53, 0OO,G0O in 1893 to S13I, ,OOO 900 in 1903, an increase Of more than 150 per cent. Even in actual increase that Of the Gulf ports nearly equals that of the Atlantic ports, the absolute gain in exports from the Atlantic ports be- ing, from 1893 to 1903. $277, ,O)O. 900, and that of the Gulf port S2OO, ,O00 coo
 Taking the more inn ortant ports in detail, it may be said that New York, New Orleans and Galveston show the largest gains in exports. New York's exports have grown from $357. .O00. GOO in 1893 to S5l6GOO.OOO in 1903: those of New Orleans from $sil. 000 in 1893 to $150. .0Ge, ,000 in 1903; and those of Gal weston, from $36.COO.CCO in 1893 to S144.- OO0'CC0 in 1863. Comparing 1893 with 1903, Baltimore shows an increase in exports from $75,OCO 1000 to $S4. 900. OOO: Boston, from SSS,OGO,OOO to SS6, 900. 900; Philadelphia, from S43,00O,CC to S7S.- C0C,cC0; Newport News. from s1O.OOO 900 to Sz0,C00,GC0; Savannah. from $23. .OOO.- coo to s5S. coo OOO; San Francisco, from S29. .OO0. 900 to $32, ,O0O, coo, and Puget Sound, frCm S5,0eO, O60 to S27. .OOO OO0. The above figures are in all cases for calendar years, and are, of course, ex- pressed in round terms.
 The table which follows shows the value of the exports from twenty principal ports of the United States in the calendar year 1893 and 1903.