Arizona republican., 1904-11-28
Figures Will Be Almost a
 Billion and a HaEf
MANUFACTURES GROUP
Aided by Raw Cotton HGch More Than Offset the Decline in the Shipments Abroad This Year of Bread Staffs and Kindred Products.

Washington, Nov. 27-The exrort record |of the United States ia jh- twelve months ending with October. 1904, just presented by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistic. is e=pes i2lly lose- worthy in view of the fact that de- spite the unusually small exports Of breadsJufrs the total value oC exports e. all kinds Is larger tlau in any pre- ceding year ending with the date above named The exports Of breadstufLs iu the ten months ending with Oc-cbe- are lsss than half iu value CT thosa of the corresponding period Of l-l8 OF 1902 and only ole-lhird as much as in the corresponding period Of 1901 Cr Is-9- Yet, despite this fact. that the Xllue of breadstuffs exported falls Ss .uil- lion dollars below the record for the corresponding period Cf last year and 15S millioEs below the record for the cores spending period o1 1901 thc total value Of all merchandise exported fu the twelve months en[5ng with oc-o- Der. 19Cz is 50 million doIa-s sreate- than in the corresponding period OF last year. and exceeds by nearly ID million dollars the largest total eve- known in a-twelve months period cad -ug with October.
 This remarkable fact that despite 1 loss of rom 60 t0 IFS million lC-l1-z tl exports oE one group ol articles. -he grand total of exports excec5s that os any preceding year. is accounted Eor chiefly by a corresponding growth Era ! the exporJation Of manufactures as a group and Of raw cott11- Exports a. manufactures in the nine months end- ! ing with September. 1904. exceed bF 4s million dollars tEoze for the -a~e- l sponGing peTicd of the preceding year. and the figures of October when com pleted will rrobably show that the ex- ports of manufactures in the ten ! months period are mere rE2u g luIt- | lion dollars in excess of tacs- fc- tIe eUrresI Il-nd-nE period or the preceding ! year Tn large number CT tle ira- | po-tant classes CT uauufactI1res the | figures of recent months show a mark cd growth ever those for the core tsponding period of last year. The oeh- | CT factor in producing this re-la-'-e -e-1 growth. which has offset the reduction 1 in exports o5 brecdstaflz. IS raw cct- ton. of which the exports in the len l months ending with October exceed uv z2 million dollars those of the core spending period Of last year. and by 30 ] millions those Of the corresr rondiuE 
 period of 1902.
 Among the articles grouped by the 1 bureau of statistics under the Eecc-rl
 -eIm of manufactures, iron and stcal ETnanufactCres show fo- the nine months for which a record is aI-ee sy 1 st hand % million dollars increase over the Corresponding period O. the prece5- l ing year: copper. an inCrzase OF g mil | Hons. and mineral oil an increase or ] manufactured articles the fsu-=s for
 -s0s show little change as com 1ar -5 1 with those of the immediately precel- ! ing year.
 In exports Of provisions the dE--o=
 or the ten months ending Wlth o-ta-
 Der. 1904 show fall or about "A mil
 ion dollars as compared with the cor l cespOndinC. period Of 1893. while eE-
 ports Of live cattle show an ircre1zc o- 41a million dollars in the ten mo1th5
 7eriCd of 1904 as compared with the
 corresponding period Of the preceding year. In breadsJuffs the reduction o.
 CUTS in practically all of the important classes. Corn exports durinS the ten months ending with October. 1s0f- fall
 8 million dollars below the figures for
 the corresponding period of 1908; wheat ] axpCrtations. over q millions below
 these of the corresponding period oi last year; and flour exports, 16 millions
 below the same months of 1908.
 The preliminary statement of the bureau of statistics shows an eEporta-
 -ion of only 1O.9S2.193 bushels Of wheai
 in the ten months ending with Ceto-
 Der, 1894, against 62-554.7sS bushels ir
 the corresponding months of last year
 9.9fS.765 barrels of flour. against 15.-
 S22. .SS7 barrels in the corresponding . months Of last year; and 56.s9S921 ] bushels of corn. against So.I05.52,
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