Arizona republican., 1904-12-12
MAKING OF THINGS
Record the United States
 Is Acquiring
Exports of the Year Will Exceed
 Those of Any Previous Year, Going Above the Half Billion narK.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 11.-Ex- ports of manufactures in the call endar year 1904 will not only exceed the highest figures of any earlier year, but may probably pass the $500 100000 line, as against 434 millions in the high record year, the fiscal year 1900, 15i millions in 1890. 103 millions in 1850, 6S millions in 1870, and 40 millions in 1860. Not only will manufactures as a whole make their highest record dur ing the present year, but this is also true of iron and steel manufactures, which form the largest group of manu- factures exported and which seem like ly to show for the calendar year a to- tai eXportation of 130 million dollars. as against 122 millions in the high re- cord fiscaI year 1900, 26 millions in 1890, 15 millions in 1880, 13 millions in 1870. and millions in 1860.
 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 l the present month aCe based upon ten months figures already issued by the | department of commerce and labor l through its bureau of statistics, and alc = | cepting the figures of October as fair measure of the prospective figures of | December. For the ten months ending With October, 1904, manufactures ex- ported amounted to $412, 2,946, ,036; for 1 the single month of October the total
 of manufactures exported was S4f.~
 355,67S Thus, should the November
 and December exports of manufactures
 average as high as those for the month
 of October, the total for the year would
 exceed s50O,0O0,o00 and stand 66 mill lions above the highest record made in the exports of manufactures during any earlier fiscal year, those of the fiscal year 1900, when the total value of
 manufactures exported was $433,S51, 756
 Of iron and steel manufactures, the
 exports during the ten months ending
 with October, 1904, were $1O5,35O, AIS.
 and those of the month of October,
 SIP, ,79S.4S1. Should the November and December exports average as high as
 those of the month of October, the to-
 tai for the year would exceed 130 mil- lion dollars, against $121,a13, ,54S, in the
 fiscal year 1900.
 This increase in the value of manu-
 factures exported occurs chiefly in min-
 eral oils, copper and manufactures oi
 iron and steel. Of mineaal oils, the
 value of the exports during the ter
 monthc; ending with October, 1904, was
 s62, ,6O1, ,566, against $52,7S6,S63 in the
 corresponding months of 1903 while
 measured by quantity the total exports
 of illuminating oils (the cheif item un-
 der the general term of manufactured
 mineral oils) in the ten months of 1904 amounted to 641, 7S0, ,O39, gallons, agains
 565. POI, ,S97 in the same Tnoonths of 1903 Of copper the value of the exports dur , ing the ten months ending with Octo- Der, 1904, was $60,792,375 while the l quantity of ingots, bars plates and olt copper (which form the principal ar
 tlcles in the group manufactures O.
 copper) showed a total exportatior
 during the ten months amounting t' i 456, ,9SO,O31 pounds, against 239,492,54 7 pounds in the corresponding months O 1903.
 g Of iaon and steel the total exports, al g already indicated, are $105,350, AIS f against sS1, 1896, ,786 in the corresp spondin; 2 months of last year. In this group ,. manufactures of iron and steel. the in
 creases occur chiefly in pig iron, bil 5 let's ingots and blooms; steel rails
 steel sheets and plates; locomotives 6 pipes and fittings, electrical machinery
 and tin plates. Of pig iron the export
 during the ten months ending wit = October amount to 43,354 tons, agains o 13532 tons in the corresponding month q of last year; of biHets, ingots an = blooms 275,615 tons, against 1,OS4 ton = in the corresponding months of las e year; steel sheets and plates, S5,37O,S2 d pounds, against 12,69S,7SS pounds i = the corresponding months of last year = tin plates 14,29S,411 pounds, as agains = 3S2,216 pounds in the same period c e last year; railway locomotives, 439 e number, as against 213 in the corre
 spending months of 1903, the value C e locomotive engines exported during tn e ten months of 1904 being s4,144,6O7, a e compared with $2,411,515 in the sam n months of 1903.