The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-25
CHRISTMAS PHOTOGRAPHY

in the ten months of 1905 amounting to Sl 156 47s in value. against S929,Se0 in the same months of 1904 and $609,9SS in the same months of 1903 Lumber also shows a considerable increase in 1905, the total for the ten months being S4l9,lS6 against s229 9S1 in the same months of last year. There are numerous other articles Tn which smaller increases occur, and or the 23 articles named in the monthly export statement issued by the department or commerce and labor through It's bureau of statistics, as exports to China, only show decrease. while all others show greater or less gains.
 Raw Cotton to Japan.
 To Japan the increase occurs in some what different class of articles from those in which the gains in exports to Chiha appear The most important single iteih of increase of exports to Japan Is ra" cotton of which the exports in l9Oo Were 13S, ,521, ,61S pounds, against only 25 i'''o-o pounds in the same months or lV4 ana 23. .951 l75 pounds in the same months ol 1903 The value of the cotton exports lo Japan in the ten months ending with oc- tober. 1905. is S13, 7S4,399, against $27l6,o29 in the same months or lyOi ana so'4Af'i-i in the same months of 1903.
 Cation exports from the United States to Japan 1iuctuate greatly and are de- termined largely by the matter or prlces' American cotton is popular with the Japa- nese spinners because 1t has a long stapie and is more satisfactory for thelf paf poses; but the cotton grown in India ana China, which has shorter stapie' ID considerably less in price, and In the years of high prices of cotton in the United States. Japan purchases little cotton in tSis country but draws largely upon India and China In years of compara- lively low prices in the United states Japan's purchases in the United states are large, as compared with those or the years of high prices. In 1904 for example, when prices of cotton in the United States were high Japan's purchases in this country were very small and her imports from India and China large. It Is only in more recent years that Japan has drawn upon her near neighbor, Chlna, for cotton in any considerable quantities; and, indeed, China has not been, until within very recent years, an exporter ot raw cotton, but in 1904 Japan imported more cotton from China than from any other country of the world. China has been for many years a considerable pro- ducer of raw cotton, but it has been con sumed by her own population, most or 1t being spun by hand, and the yarn so spun has been for the most part woven by hand into rough cotton, some parts of the domestic cotton crop of China have been spun by cotton mills erected in that country with European or Japa- nese capital, but considerable quantities of yarn are still made by hand from do- nestle cotton, and large quantities Of cloth are made by hand in part from this handmade yarn and in part from yarn made either In the mills of China or inn ported from India and Japan. The value of cotton yarn imported into China is nearly as great as the value of finished cloth, and this importation of cotton yarn is divided between India and Japan, these two countries having practically driven the European yarns out of the markets of China in recent years.
 Others Show Increase.
 Other articles showing a marked in- crease in our exports to Japan during the ten months of the present var are car riages. cars. and other vehicles, which amount In the ten months ending with October 1905. to s1, ,056,G07 against s363, Al in the same months or 1904 and $23,6& in the same months of 1905 Electrical ap- pliances show material growth, amount ing in 1905 to $214, AIS. Electrical machinery also shows material gain, amounting in the ten months ending with October, 1905, to $l,05S,776. against sS99199 in the same months Of l904 and 3Zol,lbS Tn the sam emonths of 1903 Railway locomotives also show large gain, their exports amounting to $2 21S.522 in the ten months of 1905, compared with sis2, 100 in the same months of last year, the number in 1905 being 222, against 6s in the same months of last year. Still another article which shows marked increase is sole leather, of which the total value exported to Japan in the ten months of the present year was s3, ,2S7, 4Os, against $S69, 5es in the same months of last year. Canned beef shows a large increase the total value in the ten months of 1905 being s ,3O9 543 against Sl06677 in the same months of last year and $3iS1 in the same months of 1qO2