New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-05
HALF BILLION EXPORTS.
Unprecedented Foreign Demand for
american Manufactures.
81 = 80 80


Washington. Dec. 4-E1ports Of manufactures
IN the calendar year 1900 viii not only exceed
the highest figures OF any earlier year, but may
pass the SJ00op0or0 line. against S334 oco-
900 il the high record year, the fiscal year 1900;
sI5I 10000 in 1890 SI03OD00rO in 1880. S66.-
10000 in 1870 and 100000 in 1850. Not
only viii manufactures az a whole make their
highest record IN the present year but this is
also true Of iron and steel. which form the
largest group Of manufactures exported and
which seem likely 70 show for the calendar year
total expectation Of sl3o.ooo0r0, as against
si22o 10000 in the high record fiscal year 1899
SIG 100000 in 1890 S15,Oc0oc0 in 1880. S13oJo-
90 in 1870. and S6.0Jooc0 in 1850.
These estimates Of the exports Of n3anufact-
ures % all classes and OF iron and steel manu-
features e single class in the year which
ends with the present month are based on ten
months figures already issued by the Depart
n1ent OF Commerce and Labor through its Blu
reau of Statistics. and accepting the figures Of
October as fair measure Of the prospective
figures q December. For the ten months ended
with October. 1904. manufactures exported
amounted 70 S4I2. .03G: for the single month
Of October the total Of manufactures exported
was ss7,355.67s. Thus. should the November
and December exports Of manufactures average
as high IS those for the month OF October, the
total Tor the year would exceed sJcoo0oOCO and
stand S66 10000 Z bove the highest record made
in the exports Of manufactures IN any earlier
fiscal year, that OF the fiscal year 1900. when
the total value Of manufactures exported was
s433. s51. 756
Of iron and steel manufactures the exports in
the ten months ended with October we're 500
3J0.41S, and those Of the month Of October, S12.-
1884, Should the November and December
exports average as high as those Of the month
Of October the total for the year would exceed
SI30OcOoDO against SI21913. 54s in the fiscal
year 1860.
This Increase IN the value Of manufactures
exported Is chiefly il mineral oils. copper and
manufactures Of iron and s+ee. OF mineral oils,
the value Of the exports IT. the ter months end
Cd with October was SCI G0I .5GG. against S52.-
1865 63 in the corresponding months Of 1893.
while measured by quantity the total exports
u illU4aIaatrz oils (the chief item under the
general tenn Of manufactured mineral oils in
the ten months Of 1904 amounted 20 63l.t 5000
q lions against -G-- POI Ag7 il the same month
the ten months ended with October was 500
81. .315. while The quantity Of ngots, bars plates
and old copper (Which form the principal arti-
cles in the group, manufactures Of COPPER
showed = total expectation in the ten months
amounting to 4569so0I pounds against 235-
1893
OF iron and steel the total exports. as al
ready indicated, are Slo53JD4ls, against $751;
6gG Ts6 in the corresponding months Of last year.
II this group, manufactures Of iron and steel
the increases are chiefly in pig iron bIets' IN
COTS and blooms. steel rails. steel sheets ana
plates locomotives. pipes and fittings, electrical
machinery and tinplates. OF pig ron the eH-
ports in the ten months ended with october
amount 10 1851 tons against l3o32 tons IN me
corresponding months Of last year; Of biHets, n
COTS and blooms. Z75,615 tons, against l'oS4 tons
II the corresponding months Of last year; steel
sheets and plates $3.50 $40 pounds, against
l. 6gs. 7SS pounds in the corresponding months
~ last wear: tnplates l429s,4l1 pounds, as
against 3S2216 pounds in the same period OF
last year; railway locomotives, 4'}3 IN NUMBER.
as against 213 In the corresponding months OF
1909 the value Of locomotive engines exported
IN The Ten months Of 1904 being S4,1i4hoI, as
compared with $2,4ll,J1J in the same months OF
1853