Arizona republican., 1905-12-11

| exports than all the other classes com- bined. The increase in the importation | of manufacturers materials in the 10 months ending with October, 1905 amounts to 81 million dollars, an in.. l crease of 21 per cent over the corre- spending period of last year, while the increase in all other imports amounts
 to but 54 million dollars, an increase, of
 F per cent over the corresponding
 months of last year. In exports the
 increase of manufacturers is 5S mill lions, or 14 per cent, while the gain O. all other exports is but 49 millions, an
 increase of per cent over the corre-
 spending months of 1904.
 The most important articles classed as manufacturers materials are che micals, raw cotton, fbers, hides and skins, india rubber, raw silk, tin leaf tobacco and wool; and each of these articles or groups of articles shows an increase over last year. Chemicals, of which a large proportion are for use of manufacturers, amount in the ten months ending with October. 1905. to 56 million dollars, against g millions in the corresponding months of last year; raw cotton amounts to 8 1-2 mil lion dollars. against millions in tho corresponding period of last year; fbers amount to nearly B million dol lars, as against little less than 30 millions in the corresponding months of 1904: hides and skins amount to practically 62 million dollars, as against 4S millions in the coarrespond- ing months of last year: india rubber. 40 millions, against 34 millions in the corresponding months of last year; raw silk, practically AS millions, against 49 1-2 millions in the same months of 1904: tin, 22 1-2 millions in the same months of last year; and wool 42 1-2 millions, against 2S 1-2 millions in the same months of last year; these nine articles aggregating BPS million dollars in value out of a to- tai of 469 millions of manufacturers materials of all kinds imported.
 The larPe proportion of the re- mainder is of the class designated as partially manufactured for use as ma terials in the manufactures and me- chanic arts" In each of the classes of manufacturers materials, whether articles in crude condition or articles partially manufactured, there is a marked increase in the ten months ending with October 1905, as compar- ed with the corresponding months of 1904, articles in a crude condition be- ing 33S million dollars in the ten months of the present year, as against PIT millions in the corresponding months of last year, and those partial ly manufactured. 130 millions in the 10 months of 1905, as against 109 mill lions in the same months of 1904. Of the various classes grouped under the general head of manufacturers mater ials wool shows the largest gain, i'm portations under that head having nearly doubled in value as compared with the 10 months of last year. By far the largest increase in wool oc- CUTS in the class designated as cloth ing wool, of which the value imported in theF10 months ending with October, 1905. amounts to A 1-2 million dollars, as against 1-2 millions in the corre-
 spending months of 1904, while comb ing wool shows an increase of a lit tie more than l million dollars and carpet wools a little less than 3 mill lions gain.
 On the export side the largest in- creases are in cotton cloths, copper,
 manufactures of iron and steel, and