The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-20
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
SOME FIGURES FROM THE MANU-
 FACTURERs' RECORD.
Analysis of the COuntry's Export Trade for the Past Two Fiscal Years Showing Things of
 Interest.

Baltimore. Aug. 19.-(Special.)- Analysis by the Manufacturers Record of official figures by the countrys ex- port trade during the past two fiscal years brings out several striking facts about the steady growth of trade at Southern ports and the increasing weight of the South in the 'country's s commerce. It says:
 '1n the first place, of the several groups of customs districts of the country the Gulf port alone showed an increase in the value of exports in the fiscal year 1904 over those of 1908; in The second place, the increase in the value of exports of cotton and its products was $47,60O,0 ,000. or s7.000,00 greater than the increase in the value If all exports; in the third place, the value of exports originating in the South, directly or indirectly, about s590 900, 900 constituted 40 per cent of the value of all exports. and it's in crease was nearly equal the total in- crease over 1903.
 The value of all exports increased between 1903 and 1904 from $1,420,141,- s79 to $1,460, ,6s6,1s5. equal to s40.726.- 506, or 2.S per cent. The value in- creased from $sO6.422.527 to $S5S,sS2,- l56. equal to s52.459,629. or III per cent, at the gulf ports. The decrease were from $2O1,s14,737 to $200,36o,342, equal to s1.454.395. or 6 per cent, at South Atlantic ports; from $702.357, PAS to sS96.764.461, equal to $S,592,7s2 or ' per cent. at North Atlantic ports. and from s20s,547.172 to $204,se1,226, equal to $4,685,946, or 2.2 per cent. at all ,otaiers.
 "ofs the ninety ports from which mer- chandise was exported in 1903 or 1904 forty-four showed decreases in the value of exports. twenty of them be- ing North Atlantic ports. four of them South Atlantic ports. three of them gulf ports and seventeen of them other ports Of the forty-six showing in- creases nineteen were Southern ports. It Is interesting to note that the in- creases at Baltimore and Boston close Iy approach each other, being something more than $1,000.000 each. That the increase at New York was hut $97S319 and that the decrease at Philadelphia was within $170,000 of the decrease at Charleston, and that the greatest increase In the country, s41,- 195,3 was at Galveston. Texas. New York led, of course. in the value of It's exports. 06.S0S.013; Galveston third. N45.316,457: Boston fourth. $S9, S45772: Baltimore fifth. $s2,s36. 1884; Philadelphia sixth. $71.411,934. and Savannah seventh. $53.7703S2, no other port showing the value of exports more than $35.000,0o
 'Of the 1904 exports. those exclu- sively from the South were: Cotton SS70.s1O246; cotton sed oil. $1o.717,2So; cotton seed meal. $9,1S4.oSs: coal ST. 722.515: naval stores $16.145.222 and phosphate s6.517 .396.a total of $431 .046.- 747. The South's share in exports pro- suced in other parts of the country as well as in the South may be estimated as follows: Tobacco, $29,000, 900: lumber in various forms $2S.000,000: petroleum. $26,0o0.0 900; grain. S24,00o,- poo: provisions. s17 .000. 900; cattle. $14.- 100000; cotton goods. $9,000,0o0: fruits, 5000, ,000 a total of $150,0o0.000. To these totals must be added the direct and indirect proportion of the South's share in the exports of iron and steel products. of manufactures of wood and of leather and its products. estimated