The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-20
KING OF OUR EXPORTS
Cotton Average OF Two and q Half
Millions Per Day.
GREATEST RECORD DURING YEAR 1908.
Value Of Cotton Exported During That Year
Was 378 Mlilivns Of Dollars and During
Last Month Over ~ M,ilIous Rapid
Growth OF Raw Cotton Exports at Same
Time Domestic Consumption lacreas.ug.

Washington, d. c. (SpcciaD King
Cotton" inside his greatest record in
the export figures oi the calendar year
1908 From 1888 to 1908 cotton exports
averaged a little more than S7so.ooo
day, in 1908 they averaged more than
Ss,ooo,ooo per day, in the last three
months oi 1908 they averaged more
than S2.ooo.ooo per day, and in the clos
ing month oi the year, nearly S2,5oo,ooo
per day. Exports OF cotton ran S72,-
100000 and thus averaging S2,5oo,ooo,ooo
per day. Exports oi cotton in Deccm-
Der, 1903, show greater value than IN
any preceding month in the history OF
cotton expectation, the total beng
over $z2,oooooo and thus averaging
$3.50. .ooo. 900 ior every day OF the month.
The value OF cotton exports from
the United States. as shown By the De
partmcnt oi Commerce and Labor
through its Bureau OF Statistics, was
$378, 900 600 These are the preliminary
| figures. but will not be materially
( changed by the revised statement to be
| issued later in the present month. The
/ total value oi the exports exceeds by
| $64 100000 that OF the preceding rec
/ ord year, 1000, when the value OF the
cotton exported was S3f4,ooo,ooo. The
value OF cotton exports never reached
/ the S5co, 900 line except in the years
1900, 1901 and 1908. In 1900 the TO-
tai was S3I4,ooo,ooo in 1901, S3ol ,ooo,-
ooo and in 1908, S37S,ooo,ooo.
While the total value OF the year
exports OF cotton was the highest on
record, the quantity exported did not
| reach so high a figure as in 1893. when
the value was much below that OF 1908
The total quantity exported in 1908 was
/ 1920 600 ooopounds which exceeded that
I OF any preceding year except 1905
when the total was 4.I7S,oooooo pounds
/ The value OF the cotton exports oi 1905
/ however, was only S232,7oS,2 ,2o4, or less
/ than two thirds as much as that Of 1908
although the quantity III 1898 was l3
per cent. greater.
Cotton forms constantly very large
share OF the exports, and especially OF the
agricultural exports OF the United States
During the entire period IRON 1883 TO
Ioo3 the value OF cotton exported has
aggregated over S5ooooooooo and aver.
aged IS per cent OF the total exports On
domestic products and 80 per cent. OF
the agricultural products exported In
100, cotton formed about % per cent. OF
the total exports and about 90 per cent.
of the total exports Of agricultural prod
ucts
The United Kingdom was in 1903 the
largest customer for our cotton. he
total value OF cotton exported from the
United States to the United Kingdom III
! the calendar year 1903 was, III round
! terms. STAY 10000. and this total OF
| SI47 100000 forms so per cent. Of our
4 total cotton exports in that year. hcr-
MANY stood second in the lis Oi our cot
/ ton customers. the total value OF our
/ cotton exported 20 Germany during the
year being SIlI.oooooo, France was
! third in the list Of purchasers, our total
exports OF cotton to that country III 1908
being $47,ooo.ooo. To Italy, which stood
1 next in the list. the total was S2i.oCoo 600 {;
/ to Russia nearly 100000: to Bel GUM,
about $Soooooo; to British North Amer
ica, Sscooooo; to Japan, about S4,5oo-
600. and 90 Mexico, a little over $1,000
600. While the United Kingdom IS the
largest purchaser of American cotton,
her increase over preceding years is much
less than that of Germany. The total
value of our cotton exports 10 the Cnrted
Kingdom i'll the year 1908 aggregated but
about $5.ooo,Coo in excess OF the total for
1000, while that to Germany exceeded by
$4,000, 600 the total for 1900, the former
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