Arizona republican., 1905-04-03

ing the first eight months of the fsca, year IT. million pounds of raw cotton.
 In 1901 tEe price of cotton in the
 united States advanced to 9S cents and Japan took hut 2-S million
 pounds during the eight months under review. In 1902, when the export price
 was about cents, Japan took 7S mil
 lion pounds of American cotton during the first eight months of the year; but
 Tn 1904, when the export price had ad-
 Vanced to II cents per pound. that
 country purchased but 20 million
 pounds of cotton during the core spending period of the year: while in the present year, with lower prices in the United States, Japan is again in creasing her consumption of American raw cotton, the exports during the first eight months having been 67h million pounds, or more than treble the amount exported thither in the same months of the preceding year.
 Other important items in our ex- ports to Japan are: Refined mineral oil. S1,470.00S in the 8 months of the present fiscal year, as against S3.2Ss- ll6 last year; sole leather, s2.625.255 in 1905, as against $391.554 last year: cars and Carriages, S172,143 in 1905. as against $59.019 last year and steel rails, S431,304, as against $157.542 last year; tke figures being in each case those for the first months of the fis- cal year named. In February alone our exports to Japan were S3,S6O.42S and Eke average for the remaining four months would place our exports to Japan during the full fiscal year at the high record tctal of $40. .OOO. 900.
 The greatest increases noted in the case Of China and Japan would seem to Justify the expectation that our to- tai exports to the orient in the fiscal year 1905 will be by far the largest on record, apprOximating 40 million dol lars in value; while if the shipments to Hawaii from the United States be included total of 150 million dollars those for the corresponding period of any preceding fiscal year, being 92 million dollars, as against 69 millions. the figure shown by the eight months period of the high record year 1900. If however to this s92523,4I2 of exports to Asia and Oceania in the eight months there be added the s7.375.913. the value of shipments to Hawaii from the United States. our total sales to the orient during the period named would be practically 100 million dol lars in value, or at the rate of 15O million dollars per annum.
 Considering the oriental countries in the order of magnitude of their pur- chases of merchandise from the United States. the figures for eight months of the present year. in comparison with the corresponding period of the pre- ceding year, are: China, $2S,3IS,646 in 1905, as against $S.174, ,556 in 1904; Ja- pan. $25,950,742, as against s15,643.S3I in 1904; Australasia, S17,672,2I5, as against SIS, ,461,359 in 1904; Hong kong. $7,952,95S in 1905. as against sS.- 1S3.40S in 1904; Hawaii, s7,375.913 in 1905, as against S7,993,129 in 1904; Philippine Islands, S3649,474. as against S3,275,733 in 1904. and India and other British East Indies. S5,O12.- S74. as against s3.593,973 in 1904. The total imports of the countries of Asia and Oceania amount to about E bil- lion dollars per annum, so that our exports still form but about 10 per cent of their annual purchases from foreign countries.