Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-11-07
Ten FIGURES
OUTER TRADE
This Year Will Reach a Bill.
tVG Inn
The Character Of the Imports Indi-
cate Great Growth in nanufact-
uring in This Country.

Washington, Nov 6.-The foreign
commerce transacted by and for the
manufacturers of the United States
will amount to more than a billion dol
lars in the calendar year 1905. In the
nine months ending with September.
for which the department of commerce
and labor, through it's bureau of sta
tistics has just announced its figures
of our foreign commerce, the imports
of materials for use in manufacturing
amounted to 422 million dollars and the
exports of manufactures amounted TO
424 millions, a total of SAG millions in
nine months, or an average of "a mil
lion dollars per month, or more than
million dollars per day for the manu-
featuring interests alone. Should the
imports of n anufacturers materials
and the exports of manufactures con-
tinue at approximately similar rates
during the remainder of the year the
total of manufacturers materials i'm
ported and of manufactures exported
would considerably exceed one billion
dollars.
Manufacturers materials now form
practically one-half of the total imports
If the United States, or, to be more ex-
act, asa per cent; and manufactured
articles form practically 40 per cent Of
he total domestic exports, or, TO be
more accurate, 1926 per cent. In 1890
manufacturers materials formed SO per
| cent of the total imports and manu-
| features formed but 20 per cent of the
total domestic exports. Manufacture
ers' materials imported in the nine
months ending with September, 1905.
were practically twice as great in val
inc n of
1890; while manufactures exported in
| he nine months ending with Septem-
Der, 1905, were practically four times
as great as in the corresponding
months of 1890, the figures for the nine
months periods of the years named be-
| ng, for manufacturers materials i'm
ported IN 1890, POS million dollars. and
in 1905, 422 millions; and of manufac-
lures exported in 1890, 113 million dol
lars and in 1905, 424 millions. Thus
the expectation of manufactured ar
ticles has grown much more rapidly
| than the importation of manufacturers
materials, suggesting that the exporters
of the country are drawing. year by
year. a relatively larger proportion OF
! their raw materials from our own cOun-
| try.
| The fact however, that manufactur-
| ers' materials now form a larger pro-
portion of the total imports than in
earlier years suggests that the growing
requirements of the people of the Unit
| ed States in other lines are now being
more fully met through home indus
tries than ever before, while an ana
lysis of the imports now brought into
| the country shows 49, a growing
share of these increasing imports is of
| articles requiring for their production
climatic conditions not existing in the
United States OF tropical and sub
tropical products alone the quantity
brought into the United States from
abroad (including that supplied by its
noncontiguous territory amounted In
the fiscal year 1905 to over 500 million
dollars, against less than 800 millions
in 1890, and 140 millions in 1870. and
much of this is manufacturers mater
ials, such as india rubber, raw silk
hemp, jute, tobacco, cabinet woods
chemicals, etc. Other classes of manu-
| facturers' materials of which the Unit
ed States does not supply sufficient for
| its own requirements are tin, hides
wool, and many less important articles
while considerable quantities of cop
per (of which the United States is the
worlds largest produCer) are shipped
from the adjacent countries of Mexico
and Canada into the United States
where facilities for smelling and mar
keting justify this movement of copper
into the greatest copper producing
country of the world-the United
States.
Manufacturers materials ir'norted IN
the month of September. 1905, aggre-
gated AZ million dollars. against "a mil
lions in September, 1890; while manu-
features exported in September. 1905
amounted to As million dollars. a:
against IA millions in the correspond
ling month of 1890. In the nine months
periods of the years named manufac
422 million dollars this year to date
as against 20S millions in 1890. while
manufactures exported amounted to 424
millions IN 1895, as against lib million:
in 1890