The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-24
GROWTH OF MANUFACTURES.

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According to the ever diligent AM
painstaking statisticians of the De
partnnent of Commerce and Labor, tn
ratio of increase in manufactures
far greater in the United States thai
in any other of the great manufactur
ing countries. Four countries-th'
United Kingdom, Germany, France
and the United States-are the worlds
chief purveyors of the manufactures
which enter into international COM
11erce The value of manufactures en-
ferfng the international markets of the
world amounts to about four billions
of dollars annually, and of this sum
about three billions in value is supplied
by the United Kingdom, Germany,
France, and the United States.
To institute a comparison between
the share of the United States and
the shares of the other manufacturing
countries named in the aggregate pro-
duction of all cannot be done with
exactness. for the reason that no coun-
any measurement, by census or other
wise, of the value of its manufactures
as a whole Estimates have been
made, however, by Mulhall and other
features produced in the principal
countries of the world at various dates.
II these estimates are approximately
accurate. the comparison of conditions
In the United States and the Europe
an countries would indicate that the in
crease in the production of nlanufac-
lures In the United States is much
greater than that of the European
countries in question. During the
period 1883 to 1903 the growth of pro-
duction of manufactures in the United
States is estimated at S., 932. 000.000, and
in the three European counties COM
bfned, 1858. 200, 900. and the percentage
of increase for the United States So per
cent, and for the three European coun-
tries combined AZ per cent.
Considering the fact that the fore
going figures are but estimates, the
Commerce and Labor statistieians
adopt a more exact criterion. This
is that Of the consumption of cotton,
pig iron and coal. the actual figures of
which are available for each of the
countries in question and, with regard
to coal and iron. for Russia besides.
The years compared are 1880 and 1903.
with the results given below.
In cotton consumption the actual in
crease in the United States in 1903. as
compared with 1880, is 1,o26, 81, 226
pounds, as against an increase of $685.
SIS. oI6 pounds in the United Kingdom,
Germany, and France combined, the
percentage of increase in the United
States being 1O7 per cent, as against
40 per cent in the three European coun-
tries combined.
In pig iron consumption the actual
increase in the United States in 1903
compared with 1880 is 1926. 454 tons. as
against an increase of II. 900 tons in
the four countries, the United King
dom, Germany. France. and Russia
combined; while the percentage of in
crease in the United States is 4S7 per
cent, as against an increase of 102 per
cent in the four European countries
combined.
In coal consumed. the actual increase
in the United States in 1908 compared
with 1880 is 247,214,oOo tons. as against
an increase of 175.sO1, 900 tons in the
four countries, the United Kingdom,
Germany. France, and Russian COM
bined; and the percentage of increase
In the United States is 1854 per cent, as
against an increase of 50 per cent in
the four European countries combined