The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-09
MANUFACTURED EXPORTS.

.a,,5ar YEAR 1904 viii not only exceed |
the highest figures Of any earlier year.
but msv probably pass the s5o0,0oooGo
line. as against 434 millions in the high
record wear. the fiscal year 1900. ~
millions in 1890. 108 millions in 1880,
a. millions in 1870. and 40 millions in
1850. Not only viii manufactures as
. whole make their highest record dur
ing the present year. but this is also
true Of iron and steel manufactures.
which form the largest group of manu-
features exported and which seem like
w 10 show for the calendar year
total expectation of 100 million dollars,
as against 122 millions in the high
record fiscal year 1900, &c millions in
1890. 10 millions in $780, 10 millions in
1870. and s millions in 1850
These estimates of the exports OF
manufactures of all classes and of iron
and steel manufactures as single
class during the year which ends with
/ the present month are based upon ten
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Department of Commerce and Labor
through its Bureau of Statistics, and
accepting the figures of October as a
fair measure of the prospective figures
of December. For the ten months end
ing with October, 1904, manufactures
exported amounted to $412, $780, 36; for
the single month of October the total
of manufactures exported was "a, 355,-
678. Thus, should the November and
December exports of manufactures
average as high as those for the month
exceed $500, 0O0,0 600 and stand 66 millions
above the highest record made in the
exports of manufactures during any
earlier fiscal year, those of the fiscal
year 19O0 when the total value of
manufactures exported was $433, S51, 1856
OF iron and steel manufactures, the
exports during the ten months ending
and those of the month of October,
1904, were $1O5, $50, 418, and those of the
month of October, $12, 798, 4S1. Should the
November and December exports aver
October, the total for the year would
exceed $50 million dollars, against $121,-
913,54S in the fiscal year 1900
This increase in the value of manu-
features exported occurs chiefly in min
eral oils, copper, and manufactures of
iron and steel OF mineral oils, the
value of the exports during the ten
months ending with October, 1904. was
$62, 601, $50, against $52, 1856, 1853 in the cor
responding months of 1903, while meas
ured by quantity the total exports of
Illuminating oils dhe chief item under
the general term of manufactured min
eral oils) in the ten months of 1904
amounted to GAL, 1908 gallons, against
| 500 2O1,S97 in the same months of 1903
Of copper, the value of the exports
during the ten months ending with
October, 1904, was $50. 1872, S75 while the
quantity of ingots, bars, plates, and old
copper (Which form the principal arti-
cles in the group, manufactures of cop
PERI showed a total expectation during
the ten months amounting to 456, $50. O91
pounds, against 239, 492, 542 pounds in the
corresponding months of 1903
OF iron and steel, the total exports,
as already indicated, are $1O5. 1850. AIS.
against $S1, 1896, 7S6 in the corresponding
months of last year. In this group.
manufactures of iron and steel, the in
creases occur chiefly in pig iron. billets.
ingots, and blooms; steel rails; stee,
sheets and plates; locomotives; pipes
and fittings, electrical machinery and
tin plates. OF pig iron, the exports
during the ten months ending with
october amount to 1884 tons, against
1882 tons in the corresponding months
Of last year; of billets, ingots. and
blooms 275,615 tons, against 1854 tons
in the corresponding months of last
year; steel sheets and plates. So, $40 500
pounds, against 1858, 7SS pounds i'm the
corresponding months of last year. tin
plates, 14,29S,411 pounds. as against
SSz'216 pounds in the same period Of
last year; railway locomotives, 499 in
number. as against 21S in the cores
ponding months of 1903, the value Of
locomotive engines exported during the
ten months of 1904 being $4,144, 607. as
compared with S2,411,515 in the same
months of 1903.
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