The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-07-15
GOOD YEAR FOR MANUFACTURES.

| Exports of manufactures in the fiscal
year which ends today will he the
largest in the history of our foreign
commerce A statement just issued by
! the Department OF Commerce and La
| Dor through its Bureau of Statistics
shows that the total exports OF manu-
features for the eleven months ending
with May, 1904, were $40 536,47S and
as this sum Is II million dollars in
excess of the eleven months figures for
the year 1900, when manufactures made
their high-water mark in expectations,
1t seems perfectly safe to estimate that
the total for the full year will be
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 years, II may be said that the
total exports of manufactures In the
eleven months ending with May, 1904,
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 1883.
{ In the eleven months ending with
May, 1888, the total expectation of
manufactures was 1870 millions; In 1890,
1888 millions; in 1896, 2O6 millions: in
1900, the year of the largest exporta-
ton Of manufactures prior to the one
jus, ending, 1898, 0s9,574, and in 1904,
$410.536,47S. This increase in the ex-
e..
nearly all classes of manufactures.
Comparing the export figures of so
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, 90
of the number show an increase, while
Z fall slightly below the figures of 1900
Those Which show a reduction as COM
pared with 1900 are iron and steel. cot
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 ITO
millions in the corresponding months
of 1900: of cotton manufactures the
total for eleven months ending with
May, 1904, is 20 millions against 90 mil
lions for the corresponding months of
1900; cycles, decrease of about one
and a half million dollars; glass and
glassware, reduction of less than 200
thousand dollars: starch a reduction
of little over l million dollars, and
marble and stone 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 |
thereof; agricultural i'm |
plements: chemicals; manufactures Of |
wood; paper, and manufactures there |
of; scientific instruments; cars and |
carriages; raraffin; india-rubber man
fractures; books, maps, ETC.; distilled |
spirits; musical Instruments; clocks |
and watches; paints and colors; brass
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-
ments, an increase of 61a millions; !
mineral oils, refined, an increase of
about 2 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 az mil
lions; manufactures of fibers, nearly
books, maps, and engravings,
over million dollars; musical instru-
ments, more than a million dollars;
while in the other articles the in
,reases range from 100 thousand dol
ars up to a million dollars.