The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-28
HIGH RECORD OF EXPORTS.
Year 1903 and Month of December
Last Hold the Belt.

Washington, Jan. 27-The calendar year
1903 and the month of December, 1908
showed. respectively, the highest record
of annual and monthly exports from the
United States. The years export figures,
as presented by the department of COM
merce and labor, through its bureau of
statistics. were S1,4S4667, 127, and those Of
month of December, STA. 734, 36s The
highest preceding record for any calen-
dar year was that of 1900, when the total
exports were s1.477, 946, 113; and the highest
preceding record for a single month was
that of October, 1900. when the total was
S163, 1856, $50
1t was not until October, 1891, that the
as 100 million dollars, and it was not I'M
til 1896 that the exports of any calendar
year reached as much as one billion dol
lars. During the four months of October,
November ard December 1891 and Janu-
airy. 1892. exports were for the first time
above the 100 milliar dollar line. but in
February, 1892, dropped again below that
line, and so continued until near the close
of 1885, when October, November and
December again passed, respectively the
100 million dollar line From that time
forward monthly exports nexcess of 100
million dollars were frequent, and from
August, 1899. to the present time they
have never fallen below 100 millions. ex-
cept in the midsummer months of June.
July and August Of 1902 and 1893. re-
spectively.
The annual expectation nearly touched
~. 4 III
being in 1891. go millions, and in 1922. e3s
millions, but dropped to SIC millions in
1898, s25 millions in 1894, SPA millions in
1885. barely crossing the one billion dollar
line in 1896. but moving steadily and
rapidly forward since that date Com
pairing conditions In 1903 with those Of
comparatively recent years. II may be
said that the total exports in 1913 exceeded
those of 1891 by 5S per cent and those
OF 1895 by 50 per cent Extending the
study still farther back. il may be said
that the exports OF 1903 were. in round
terms double those OF ISIS. two and a half
times those OF 1873. and four times those
of 1859.
Owing to the very marked decrease in
imports in December. which month
showed a Iall OF ABOUT IL IlEllltUS. a
compared with December of the preceding
year the total OF imports did not touch
the bilion-Gollar line as had been ex-
pected. but was within about Al. rnilI:ul
dollars of that sum. being 1895. AS. I9i Iris
leaves the table OF calendar years without
billion-dollar record up 70 this tins.
though the fiscal year statement did shoG
more than one million dollars OF imports
in the year ending June 81. 1915.
y comparison OF conditions IL the fer
eign commerce OF the United States in
isss with those Of 1888 shows that the
imports Of 1873 exceeded those OF 1898 hy
20 millions. and that the exports OF 1910
exceeded these OF ISs3 By SIS millions.
Carrying the comparison SIN further
back. il is found that the imports Of IssJ
exceeded those OF IssS by as millions. ard
that the exports OF 1898 exceeded thoss
q IsSS by esS millions. A compzrtsS. with
isis shows that the imports OF 80 OK
coed those Of 1873 by .oe millions and the
exports OF 1913 exceed those OF IS-S by 81
millions. Thus imports icnreased s. per
cent from 1873 20 lsos. while exports In
creased isI per cent during the same time.