The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-15
GOOD YEAR FOR MANUFACTURES.

Exports of manufactures in the fiscal
year which ends today will be the
largest in the history of our foreign
commerce. A statement just issued py
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor through it's Bureau OF STATISTICS
shows that the total exports OF manu-
features for the eleven months ending
with May, 1904, were $410, ,418, ana
as this sum is II million dollars in
excess of the eleven months figures for
the wear 1900. when manufactures made
their high-water mark in expectations
it seems perfectly safe to estimate that
the total for the full year Will De
the largest in the history of our for
eign commerce.
Comparing the expectations of man
ufactures for the eleven months for
which figures are now available with
those of the corresponding months OF
earlier wears, it may be said that the
total exports of manufactures in the
eleven months ending with May, 1914,
are practically twice as great as those
for the corresponding months of 1896,
two and a half times as great as IN
1892, practically three times as great as
in 1890. and more than three times as
great as in 1888.
In the eleven months ending with
May, 1888, the total expectation or
manufactures was 120 millions; in 1890,
12S millions; in 1896, >206 millions; in
1900, the year of the largest exporta-
ton of manufactures prior to the one
just ending, $685.. oS9,574, and in 1904.
$40, $50, 478. This increase in the ex-
portation of manufactures occurs in
nearly all classes of manufactures.
Comparing the export figures of 80
articles or groups of articles for the
eleven months ending with May, 1904,
with those of the corresponding months
of 1900, the previous high record year
in the expectation of manufactures. %
of the number show an increase. while
fall slightly below the figures of 1900.
Those which show a reduction as COM
ton manufactures, tobacco manufac-
lures, cycles, glass and glassware,
starch, and marble and stone manu-
features In iron and steel the total
for eleven months ending with May,
1904 is 100 million dollars against no
millions in the corresponding months
of 1900; of cotton manufactures the
total for eleven months ending with
May, 1904, is 20 millions against % mil
lions for the corresponding months of
1900; cycles, a decrease of about one
and a half million dollars; glass and
glassware, a reduction of less than 200
thousand dollars: starch, a reduction
OF little over L million dollars, and
marble and stone a drop of about 125
thousand dollars.
The great articles which show in
creases in the eleven months of 1904,
compared with the corresponding
months of 1900, are mineral oils, refin-
ed; copper manufactures; leather, and
manufactures thereof; agricultural i'm
plements; chemicals; manufactures of
wood; paper, and manufactures there
of: scientific Instruments; cars and
carriages; araffin; indiarubber man
ufaetures; books, maps, ETC.; distilled
spirits; musical instruments; clocks
and watches; paints and coIors; brass
manufactures; gunpowder and other
explosives; soap; wool manufactures,
and jewelry
Comparing the exports of the
eleven months ending with May.
1904, with those of the cores
ponding months of 1900, leather manu-
features show an increase of nearly 6
million dollars; agricultural imple-
mineral oils, refined, an increase of
about millions: wood manufactures,
an increase of nearly millions; chem
icals drugs, and dyes, an increase of
/ million dollars; scientific instruments,
an increase of nearly 2 millions; cars
and carriages, an increase of 214 mill
lions; manufactures of f1bers, nearly
millions; books, maps, and engravings,
over a million dollars; musical instru-
ments, more than million dollars;
while in the other articles the in
creases range from 100 thousand dol
lars up to a million dollars.
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The General Staff at st. Petersburg
seems to have taken too much for
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