The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-14
EXPORT TRADE
Is INCREASING.
Manufactures Sent Abroad Last Year
We're Worth $543, e2O,2s7.
IRON AND STEEL ARE FIRST
COPPER THE THIRD ARTICLE OF
IMPORTANCE.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Statistics COM
piled by the bureau of statistics of the
department Of commerce and labor
show that the exports Of manufactur-
ers in the fiscal year just ended
amounted to s54S. 62O, 2s7 as against
452,4l5,921 in the preceding year. s43S.-
S5l,756 in 1900 and $1SS, 595, 743 in 1895, of
manufacturers.
The exports Of manufacturers for the
past fiscal year were not only the
largest on record, but are in excess of
the combined exports of all articles in
the centennial year. 1876 and nearly
and exports of the country at the close
of the civil war
Outsteps Population.
The growth in the expectation manu-
fscturers is shown to have largely ex-
ceeded the growth in population. Out
OF thirty leading articles only seven
show falling off for the year as COM
Dared with 1904. Iron and steel manu-
faetures supply about one-fourth of the
total exports, having been $134. 727, 921.
as against s111.9aS.5Se IN the preceding
Year. Steel rails showed an increase Of
S6,ee0geo, chiefly in shipments 10
Canada, South America, Mexico. the
West Indies, Japan and other Oriental
countries.
Machinery also showed an increase in
curious feature is the large increase in
exports Of locomotives to Japan, 151
engines having been sent thither in
1906 as against seventy-four in the
previous year.
Copper Comes Second.
Mexico and Argentina increased their
purchases Of American sewing ma
chimes while Japan increased her pur-
chases of electrical machinery and
for al in, tai
degree. Copper manufacturers take
second rank with total valuation OF
SS6.225,2sl in 1905 as compared with
500 l42.OSl. There was an increase of
China.
There WAS an increase in the exporta-
ton Of mineral OiIs-the third article in
Importance OF Overl 100, 900 900 gallons,
but owing 10 The fall in price the
amount Is only stationary. The oil en-
port for 1905 was 951 600 900 gallons as
against S47 600. 600 gallons. The value
for 1893 was $71,sss,317, and for 1904 was
S71.753. 552.
To Great Britain and Ireland 271. OOO,-
600 gallons were sent, Germany 147, OOO.-
600. and TO the Netherlands III 900 900.
Only 55.000.OO0 gallons were exported TO
South America.
Cotton Exports.
Cotton manufactures present one of
the striking features of the years eK-
pOTlSs having advanced from ~, 4O3.-
71S in 1904 to sac, 6660SO in the year just
ended. The growth occurred chiefly in
cotton cloth exports. $14,696 1879 being
the total in 1904 and 81 800, SAC the
figure for 1905. To China there was an
increase Of about 400. coo, 900 yards over
last years expectation of 769, 900 900 and
the value of other cotton cloth ex-
ported to that country increased from
s4.0OO,OO0 in 1904 to go. 75O. coo in 1905.
Japanese was the only other country to
show a considerable. increase, total
being 16,00O00O yards as against 449, 900
yards in 1904.
Leather and its manufactures.
fourth in Importance in the list of
manufactured articles exported, showed
an increase of $4,000, 600. the total in
1905 having been $4,000 600, as compared
with SS4.000.000 in the preceding year.
In this class also Japan is credited with
the chief increase.