Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-27
United States Commerce
With Dependencies.
Total for Past Nine Months
Was SiO3,O00,0O0.
These Figures Cover the Merchandise
Shipments Only.

month statement ending with Septem-
Der, issued by the Department of Com
merce and Labor through its Bureau OF
Statistics. shows that the shipments
from the United States to it's nom
contiguous territory amounted to $780,
552.174 against $29.929,O79 in the CORE
spending months of the preceding year,
and an increase of six and a half mil
lion dollars, and that the shipments of
merchandise to the United States from
its non-contiguous territory in the same
period amounted to $66,550,150 against
Sal, 141 63S in the corresponding months
of the preceding year, gain of over
nineteen millions. Thus the total COM
nerce between the United States and
its nOn-cOntiguouS territory amounts to
over one hundred and three million dol
lars in the nine months ending with
September, 1905, against seventy-seven
millions in the corresponding months of
the preceding year.
These figures relate to merchandise
| only and do not include the gold and
silver, of which the shipments from
Alaska to the United States We're near
~ seven million dollars of gold pro-
duced in that territory and five and 4
half millions of foreign gold shipped
from Alaska, being presumably that
originating in British territory adja-
cent thereto. This shows a total in
crease of over twenty-five million dol
lars in the trade between the United
States and it's Don-contiguous territory
in the nine months just ended, as COM
pared with the corresponding nine
months of the preceding year. 1t was
not until 1904 that the commerce be-
tween the United States and the vari-
Gus areas now designated as its nom
contiguous territory had reached as
much as one hundred million dollars,
but it seems likely that the total for the
present year will reach fully one hum
bred and twenty-five million dollars.
This increase in the trade above re-
ferred to is found in the movements of
commerce to and from each of the i'm
portant areas in question, except in the
single instance of merchandise shipped
from Alaska to the United States. In
this there is a falling off of little less
than 100000, compared with the cor
responding months of the preceding
year. this. reduction being, apparently
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salmon, which, in the nine months of
1905, amounted to but II 100000 pounds,
against 39,00O,0O0 in the corresponding
nine months of the preceding year, the
value being $2.000,0OO less than that of
the corresponding months of 1904. In
shipments from the United States there
was an increase of nearly $1,000 900 to
| Alaska, of over 100000 to Porto Rico
, about 81 100000 to the Philippine Islands
and nearly $1.000,000 to the Hawaiian
| Islands. In shipments from the non
contiguous territory to the United
! States there was ar increase of about
| 100000 from Porto Rico of over $4,-
100000 from the Philippine Islands, and
of about $4,000, 900 from the Hawaiian
Islands, but a decrease. as above men,
toned. of about $2,O0O,000 from Alaska,
due apparently to a shortage in salmon
shipments during the period in ques-
ton.
The contrast in the trade of the
United States with these territories as
impaired with the period prior to an
ncxatiOn is interesting. In the nine
months ending September, 1897, the
! year prior to the annexation of Porto
Rico, the shipments of merchandise
from that island to the United States
amounted to $1,761 OPS as against s16,-
| 1866 in the nine months just ended.
| The shipments from the Hawaiian Is
! lands to the United States in the nine
months ending with September. 1897.
! amounted to $13,044,231 as against $35.-
Csc, 191 in the nine months just ended.
The shipments from the Philippine Is
| lands 10 the United States in the nine
months ending with September, 1897,
| amounted to $685., 060. as against SILL
| 1872. 124 in the nine months just ended.
| For Alaska there are no figures other
| than estimates for years prior to 1900.
ON the export side shipments from the
United States to these territories) the
shipments from our own ports to Porto
Rico in the nine months ending with
| September, 1897, were $1,504,914 against
| the S11, 4S6. 300 in the nine months end
| ing with September in the present
year; those to the Hawaiian Islands in
| the nine months of 1897 were s3,766, 26S
against sS,96S,045 in the corresponding
| months of the present year. and those
| to the Philippine Islands in the nine
months of 1897. s54.660, against $4.4S2.-
531 for the nine months of the present
year. In addition to the above. there
| are small shipments to and from the
| smaller islands-Guam, Midway, Tu-
tuila etc. To Tutuila during the nine
months ending with September, 1905.
the shipments were $5S,296; to the Mid
| way Islands, $3.50.
As to the character of the articles en-
| tering into this trade with the nom
| contiguous territory of the United
| States. which promises to amount to
! s125.000,0 900 during the present year, it
may be said that the chief item of ship
ments from the Hawaiian Islands is
sugar. which amounted in that period
to $S3, liz, All of raw sugar and s1,752, 791
I of refined. This trade in shipments of
| refined sugar from Hawaii to the
| United States is quite new and aggre-
| gated in the nine months of 1905, SO, 1885,
S5S pounds. while the record of the cor
responding months Of the preceding
year shows no shipments of refined
! sugar from the islands to the United
; States In the trade with Porto Rico