Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-04
WILL BEAT RECORD.
The Fiscal Years Exports Of
Manufactures.
Gain in Nine Months Has Been
$l7,oo0,o0o.
Figures Have Almost TrebIed in Te,
Years.

washington, May 3.-ExpOrtS of
manufactures still promise to exceed in
the fiscal year 1904 those Of any pre-
ceding year. The nine months figures
of the fiscal year just announced by the
Department Of Commerce and Labor.
through it's Bureau of Statistics, show
q total Of $17.0OO,00O greater than the
corresponding months of the fiscal year
1900, in which the exports Of manufac-
lures reached their highest figures. In
1900 the exports of domestic manufac-
lures amounted to SAGA, 100000 for the
whole fiscal year. which was the high
est figure ever recorded for the exports
of domestic manufactures from the
United States. In 1891 the figures
and in 1903, $407, 100000
This drop in the figures, however,
was not entirely due to an actual re-
duction in the value of manufactures
leaving the ports of the United States,
but was in part because of the fact that
shipments of manufactures to Hawaii
and Porto Rico, which had formerly
been included in the statement of ex-
ports to foreign countries, were not so
included for the year 1900. The exports
or manufactures to Hawaii and Porto
Rico i'll 1900 amounted to 81, 00O, 900, and
had these been included in the figures
Of exports to foreign countries subse-
quent to 1900 there would have been
comparatively little reduction.
The figures of exports to foreign
countries in 1904. which are now COM
pleted for the nine months ending with
March. indicate that the total value of
exports of manufactures to foreign
countries in the full fiscal year which
ends June 80 will exceed those of 1900.
IN spite of the fact that Hawaii and
Porto Rico are no longer included. The
total value of exports sent from the
United States to Hawaii and Porto
Rico for the present fiscal year will ag-
gregate s25,000,000, and Of this manu-
features form about two-thirds of the
grand total. In the nine months end
ing with March, 1904, manufactures
shipped to Porto Rico and Hawaii have
probably aggregated about $40. 900. 900 in
value. The total value of the manu-
factures exported to foreign countries
in the nine months ending with March
exceeds by s17.OO0.0OO that of 1900. the
banner year, in which the figures Of ex-
ports to Hawaii and Porto Rico were
included.
To compare. therefore, the shipments
from the ports of the United States in the
nine months ending with March. 1901. with
those of the corresponding months of 1900.
the shipments to Hawaii and Porto Rico
should be added: and this would bring the
total for the nine months about $50, 600 900
above those of the corresponding nine
months of the year of greatest exports.
! !. comparing exports of manufactures
10 foreign countries in the nine months
ending with March. 1904, with those of
corresponding periods for earlier years. a
gam OF $3l ,Mc, 600 is shown for the nine
mo ,hohtns ending with March. 1904. over
the corresponding period of 1903, and a
gam or So6, Gee. OC0 compared with the same
period of 1902. Comparing conditions with
those of a decade ago it may be said that
exports of manufactures have almost
trepied. IN the nine months ending with
March, 1884, the total value of domestic
manufactures exported was SIS, 800. 149
against 1890 81, 215
Imports of manufactures show a de-
cfded falling off in the nine months end
ing with March. 1904, as compared with
tain statement of the imports of manu-
features. the Bureau of Statistics groups
in three classes. viz, wholly or aprtially
manufactured materials for use in manu-
lacture, manufactured ready for con-
sumption: and the group articles of volun-
tary use. Injuries, etc; and this gives
approximately the value of all manufac-
lures coming into the United States and
amounts in total to 1884, Sl5. 1856 in the nine
months ending with March. 1904, against
1885, .H7 in the same months Of last
yea. a decrease of $50 900. 900 in imports
of manufa ctures 1t is proper to add.
however. that the group articles of vol
untary use. etc, contains some articles
which could not properly be classed as
manufactures, especially diamonds, of
which the Importation has grown steadily
for several years past until the present
fiscal year, which shows decided falling
Off compared with 1903
For the eight months ending with Feb
ruary, the diamonds imported amounted
to 100000. against over s16.0O00OO In the
IL deducted from the Bureau of Statistics
figures of manufactures. would bring the
total for the nine months down to about
$500 900. 900 worth of manufactures import
ed. against $3.50. 0O00 900 worth exported dur
ing the same period.
These figures seem to Justify the pre-
diction chat the value of manufactures
sent out from the ports of the United
States in the fiscal year 1904 will exceed
those of any preceding year. and will
also exceed the imports of manufactures
during that same period
The table which follows shows the
value of ma nufactures exported in March
and the nine months ending with March
in each fiscal year from 1890 to 1901:
EXPORTS OR MANUFACTURES
For Month and Nine Months Ending
Noa.h NY;zz