The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-06
EXPORT RECORD BROKEN.

| Exports of manufactures in the cal
endar year 1904 will not only exceed the
highest figures of any earlier year, but
may probably pass the $500, 0000 900 line,
as against 434 millions in the high-rec-
I ord year. Not only will manufactures
as a whole make their highest record
during the present year, but this is also
| true of iron and steel manufactures,
which form the largest group of manu-
| features exported and which seem like
| ly to show for the calendar year total
expectation of 100 million dollars, as
| against 122 millions in the high record
fiscal year 1900.
These estimates of the exports of
manufactures of all classes and of iron
and steel manufactures as a single
class during the year which ends with
the present month are based upon ten
months figures already issued by the
department of commerce and labor
through its bureau of statistics, and ac-
cepting the figures of October as a fair
measure of the prospective figures of
December. For the ten months ending
with October, 1904, manufactures ex-
ported amounted to $412, 946, 036; for the
single month of October the total of
manufa ctures exported was SAT, 355, 678.
Thus, should the November and Deem
Der exports of manufactures average
as high as those for the month of Oc-
tober, the total for the year would ex-
coed $500, 100000 and stand sc millions
above the highest record made in the
exports of manufactures during any
Garner nScd1 year, lnOSe OF Ine HScdt
year 1900 when the total value of man
ufactures exported was S433, 851, 756.
OF iron and steel manufactures, the
exports during the ten months ending
with October 1904, were $105 $50, 418, and
those of the month of October. tina
total for the year would exceed 1870
million dollars, against $121, 913, 54S in
the fiscal year 1900
This increase in the value of mann
features exported occurs chiefly in min
eral oils, copper, and manufactures of
iron and steel. OF mineral oils, the
months ending with October, 1904, was
S62, 601. 566, against $50, 786863 in the |
months of 1903 while |
measured by quantity the total exports |
of Illuminating oils in the ten months |
of 1904 amounted TO 641, $50, 039 gallons, |
against 565. POI 1897 in the same months !
of 1903. OF copper, the value of the
exports during the ten months ending |
with October, 1904, was $50, 1872. 375 while |
the quantity of ingots, bars, plates and |
old copper showed a total expectation |
during the ten months amounting to |
456, $50, OBJ pounds, against 239, 492, 542 |
in the corresponding months of
1908.
Of iron and steel, the total exports, |
as already indicated, are $105, $50, 41S, |
against $S1, 500, 1856 in the corresponding |
months of last year. In this group |
creases occur chiefly in pig iron. billets.
ingots and blooms; steel rails; steel
sheets and plates; locomotives; pipes |
and fittings, electrical machinery, and |
tin plates Exports of railway locomo- |
tives were 439 in number, against |
213 in the corresponding months of 1903, |
the value of locomotive engines export |
ed during the ten months of 1904 being |
81 144 607. as compared with 81, All, SIS in |
the same months of 1903.