Arizona republican., 1905-03-13
JANUARY IMPORTS.
Mostly Made up of Mdnu-
 lecturers Materials
An Increase of Forty per Cent in Comparison With the Same Month Last Year.

Washington, March 12-Manufact- urers' material formed more than one half of the total imports into the United States in the month of January, and about 46 per cent for the seven months of the fiscal year which ends with January. The January record Of imports of manufacturers materials is exceptionally large, and shows mark ed increased over January of last year. Manufacturers materials as classed by the department of commerce and labor through it's bureau of statistics, are divided into two groups: first, the articles in q crude condition for use in manufacturing, and, second, articles wholly or partially manufactured, for use in manufacturing. The frst-men- tioned group, articles in a crude con dition for use in manufacturing" shows C1 increase of 40 per cent in January, 1905, over January, 1904, the total value of articles of this character imported in January, 1905, being S3S,034,17S against $27OS7. .9O1 in January of last year. For the seven months ending with January an increase of about 20 percent is shown over the correspond ing months of last year, the total for tine seven months being $206, ,307, against s173,1S0,110 of the previous year In the second class, articles wholly or partially manufactured, for use in manufacturing, the increase is very slight, the amount for January. 1905, being s11,471,9S5, against S10,03S,- 173 for January. 1904 while in the seven months ending with January the figures of 1865 are about half a million dollars below those of the correspond ing period of 1904.
 This record of January, 1905 in which manufacturers materials formed more than one-half of the total entries, is a very unusual one, though the share which manufacturers materials are forming of our imports is steadily in creasing. In 1920 manufacturers ma tcrials formed about 166 per cent of the total imports; by 1850 they formed about 2S.2 per cent; in 1870, a like proportion; in 1880. 37 per cent; in 1890 S4 per cent; in 1895, S7 per cent; in 19oO, 45 per cent: in the fiscal year 1904, 45 per cent, and in. the single month of January. sol per cent
 The manufacturers of the United States, who thus imported for their own use one-haf of the value of the imports into the United States dur ing January, also contributed largely to the export record of the month, the total value of manufacturers exported during the month being S4O.512 ,915, or 33.37 per cent of the total exports for the month. Manufacturers formed but 13 per cent of the total exports in 1850, b per cent in 1870, IFS per cent in 1S9O 31.6 per cent in 1900, 34 per cent in the seven monthe ending with Jan uary and 33 per cent in the single month of January. Thus manufac- lures are. according to these figures of the bureau of statistics, steadily in creasing the share which their material forms in the imports and their products form in the exports of the United States. In the seven months ending with January, manufacturers exported exceeded by g millions the total for the corresponding months of the pre- ceding year. and in the single month of January the total exceeds that of January, 1904 by about million dol lars. The imports of material for use in manufacturing in the seven months ending with January exceeded those of the corresponding month of the pre- ceding year by about 33 million dol lars, and in the month of January alone exceeded those of January last by more than r million dollars.
 The principal articles composing the imports for use in manufacturing are raw silk, wool fibers, tin. india rub Der and hides. The imports of raw silk during the month of January were valued at $5,637,727, against S3,S46,022 in January of last year (exclusive of waste), indicating 9 greatly increased activity in the silk manufacturing in dustry, and this is apparently sus- tained by the fact that the quantity of raw silk imported fin the seven months ending with January is given s1f 11190671 pounds, against 6.675,052 pounds in the corresponding months of last year. Of wool, the importations in the month of January, 1905, were p million pounds, against 10 millions in January, 1904, and in seven months ending with January 1905, are 109 mil lion pounds, against S2 millions in the corresponding months of last year. Of nbers. the importatiOns in the seven months ending with January are val ued at s2O,699, ,313, against $21,370, 769 in the corresponding months of last year. Of india rubber, the imports ill the seven months ending with January, 1905, are valued at S26,447,717, against 2G.89O. 961 in the same months of last year; and of hides and skins, the i'm ports of the seven months ending with January. 1905, are valued at $34,439, ,265, against $27,7OS, 316 in the corresponding months of last year. Of tin, in pigs, bars. blocks, etc, the imports of the seven months ending with January were 43,621,61 pounds. against 39,I14,- S41 pounds in the corresponding months of last year while for the single month of January, 1905, the total was 6,1T9,- 9S3 pounds, against 4,677,339 pounds in JanUar-- of !ast year.
 
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