Arizona republican., 1904-11-14
Nine Months Business With
 Russia and Japan
AFISCAL YEAR SHOWING
During the Heat of the War Our Im- ports From Those Countries and Exports to Them Have Greatly Inc Creased-O Other Oriental Business.


 China, Hongkong, and Korea show a marked increase in 1904 as compared with earlier years. To each of the countries named the exports for the nine months ending with September are larger than those of the cOrre- spending months cf 1903, while in the case of China the figures, although showing a marked increase over 1903, still fall slightly below those of 1902, but when combined with the figures of exports to Hongkong give total greater than that for the correspond ing months Of 1902 or 1903.
 The total exports from the United States to Russia, Japan, China, Hong kong, and Korea are shown by the de- partment Of commerce and labor through it's bureau of statistics as S56,448, ,225 in the nine months ending with September, 1904. against $44,S07, 366 in the corresponding months of 1903, and $47,653G31 in the correspond ing months of 1902.
 Similar conditions prevail with ref l erence to Imports into the United States from the countries in question. ] From Russia, Japan, China, HCngkOug and KOrea the imports fer the nine months ending with September, 1904 are in each case larger than in the ! corresponding months of the pIeced- ing year The total imports into the ! United States from the countries nam ed amounted to $65, ,3S9. O22 in the nine months ending with September. 1904 against $50, 375,925 in the corresponding months of 1903 and S49,54O,25g in the cor 1 responding months of 1902.
 | In most of the principle articles com posing the commerce between the . a fae frf FrL4r-a4 i appears d material increase in the fig ures of 1904 as compared with earlier years. To Russia the principal articles of our export trade are agricultural implements, manufactures of iron and steel, copper, naval stores, and raw cottony and in most of these the fig
 ures of 1904 compare favorabiy with
 those of earlier years.
 To Japan the principal exports are
 manufactures of iron and steel min
 eraI oils, flour. provisions, tobacco, and raw cotton. In nearly all of these articles or classes of articles, except
 cotton, the figures for 1904 show an in- crease over 1903 In cotton the figures
 show a marked decline in exports to
 Japan, the total value of cotton ex-
 ported to that country in the nine
 months ending with September, 1904
 being less. than two million dollars 1 against over three millions in the cor responding months in 1903 and nearly
 six millions in the corresponding
 months of 1902. This falling off in the
 exports of cotton to Japan is chiefly
 due to the extremely high price oi
 American cotton during the past two
 years and to the fact that Japanese manufactures of cotton goods have substituted in part the shorter sta
 
 ton of India in their manufacturing
 In other articles the figures of I9O
 show a gain over earlier years. Tn,
 value of flour exported to Japan il the nine months ending with Septem
 ber 1904, is $2,S1O, 2O3 against S2.563,O
 in the corresponding months of 19O Q and S917,625 in the cOrrespOndin, ! months of 1902. Electrical machiner. . exported to Japan shows a marked in
 crease in 1904, being S755, ,955 during tn \ nine months ending with September a l against $214,255 in the correspondini 1 months of 1903 and $131. JOS in the cor ] ! responding months of 1902. LDcomo q tives exported to Japan in the min z months ending with September. 1904 q were fifty-eight in number. agains 4 eighteen in the corresponding periO E in 1903 and twelve in the correspond 1 ing periods of 1902. the value for tn .a nine months of 1904 being S442. .1OO a 5 compared with $17S,213 in the core u spending months of 1903 and S111. 15 a in the cores bonding months of 19O. Fl Steel rails exported from the Unite s States to Japan during the min Fl months ending with September, 19O. n amounted to S6S06S9, while the corre A spending months of 1902 show no ex $ ports of steel rails to. Japan, and fo A the corresponding months of 1902 a to s tai of but S2, 195. Mineral oils expcrte d to Japan in the nine months endin Fl with September, 1904 amounted { H 32, 33S, ,52S gallons, against 27,3S4.Z51 gal 3 Ions in the corresponding months i 9 1903.
 To China the exports in the min H months ending with Septembar. 19O 2 show d marked gain over those far th 8 corresponding period of 1903 Cot.o
 cloths, mineral oils, manufactures C "a iron and steel, and tobacco are tn s most important of our exports China, though flour is becoming a
 item of growing importance. the tots
 value of flour exported from the Unite . States to China in the fiscal year 19O
 being $2S5,054, against $77,342 in 1894 l Of mineral oils the exports to China fc
 nine months ending with Septemba l 1904, amounted to 57,153,03O gallon aSalnst II453.SyS gallons in the orc | spending months of 1903, and s,+S5,
 4S5 gallons in the correspondin | months of 1902, the value betng $6. | Ol3,067 for the nine months ,nIin
 with September, 1904, against s1.1S6 | BOT in the corresponding months ( II 1902
 Il Cotton cloths, of which the export
 have been greatly reduced siice th II beginning of hOstilities in nOrtber. II China. which has been the special mar
 ket for American products. are no, | showing a-Temarkable increase in tb