Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-12-15

was S96S 0S5, Of wutch $2l0g45 was
for manning and eQuipptug the YES
sells of the survey, $4,000 for build
ing new vessel, SSSl0o Cor repairs
ana maintenance Of vessels, and $50,
600 for Office expenses. The r.,
maiuder of the appropriation vas
about equally divided between eN,
penses Of parties in the field ane
salaries Of the field and Office forces,
The superintendent Of the coast
and goedetic survey reports that
photographic surveys were made in
l6 states and territories. and topo,
graphic surveys in @ that triangula,
tion was done in IA, and leveling in s.
Good progress was made in the gen.
eral magnetic survey, Observations
were made at S45 stations, in eS states
and territories. including Alaska
Guam, Hawaii, Philippine islands. ami
Porto Rico.
Manufactures and Corporations,
The bureau of manufactures, author.
lied under the organic act, was not
organized during the fiscal year Gov
cred by this report because of the in
sutticiency of the appropriations.
The work of the bureau of corpora.
tons has proceeded along the lines
Indicated in the first annual report OF
the department. The bureau has made
exhaustive examination of judicial de
cis.uns for the purpose of ascertaining
fully those constitutional powers ana
restrictions on which present conditions
are based and also those which must
he necessarily involved IN amy future
legislation for the Improvement of
present legal corporate conditions.
For the purpose of ascertaiuing and
presenting in available form the legal
conditions under which corporate bus
mess is being carried on in the various
states material obtained from 80 states
has been compiled and tahulated, In
each Of these states, with regard to all
the more important corporations or.
ganized IN the state and engaged in
interstate or foreign commerce., typ
cal either of the states industries or OF
its laws, every paper or document filed
or recorded concerning each corpora
zion was examined separately and al!
information relating To each corpora
ton disclosed by the official records
has been collected and complied. There
have been thus far examined and alb
stractcd the records of over 500 cor
porations, which include the larger
part Of the more important industrial
ana commercial corporations, joint
stock companies. and corporate com
binations in the United States.
Bureau Of Statistics.
The foreign commerce. - the
United States as reported BY the
bureau OF statistics shows larger
total than in any earlier year, Wnllc
the exports were surpassed by those
OF a single year, 1901, and the i'm
ports were also surpassed by those oil
a single year, 1908, the aggregate OF
imports and exports for the year Is
greater than that OF any preccdr {
year in the history Of our commerce
The imports of the year were 1891,
0S7,37 and the exports 81, 400 I'll
making the total foreign commerce ot
the year $2,451 ,9li,G42, which oX
ceede, by $6,053,726 the hlg roc r.
established by the year 1903, The i'm
ports showed reduction Of $34,63l,
$50 as compared with 1908, but eN
cCcded those OF any other year an
the exports were $2G,9377l0 bclo&
those Of 1901, but exceeded those O
any other year. OF the 81 AGO S27. 81
Of exports, 81, 5,l79,017 We're of d.
nestle production, the exports of pro
ducts Of agriculture being $685.. 643, OF,
and of manufactures, $452,416 92l.
The total OF agricultural products
exported fell $l9679,S09 below tina
OF the preceding year and formel d
smaller percentage Of the total domes
| tic exports than in any proceed n.
year, while exports OF manufacture
were the largest ever recorded, cx
ceeding by $44,SS9,7G2 those of the
preceding year and surprising By
SIS, 564. 1865 the high record establish
ed IN the year 1900. Manufacture
formed in 1904, 3l52 per cent Of thu
domestic exports Of the country
| against 2ll4 per cent of those d
, 1894, 1881 per cent OF those Of 1884
and 1853 per cent Of those Of 1874
| The reduction in exports of agri
cultural products already noted wa
chiefly due TO the small expectations
Of braadstuffs, which amounted dur n.
the year to $149,05O,378, against 1921,
242,2S5 in the year 1903. This reduc
ton, which occurred in all classes o.
| breadstuffs, but especially in wheat
was cue in part to a shortage in The
wheat crop Of the United States f.
1903 IS compared with that of the I'M
mediately preceding year. In part K
unusually large crops in other whcal
producing countries, and in part &c
the growing home demand.
The imports Of the year were char
acterized by the maintenance OF Tn,
high record OF manufacturers ma
terlals in a crude condition brought
into the country Tor domestic use