Arizona republican., 1905-02-27
TRADE WITH CUBA
Last Fiscal Year Was the
 Greatest
The Satisfactory Results of the First Period Under the New Reciprocity Arrangement.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Exports from the United States to Cuba in the cal endar year 1904, the first year under the new reciprocity treaty, were larg CT than in any earlier year in the his tory of our trade with that island, and were 3S.9 per cent in excess of those of the immediately preceding year. Practically every article of importance exported to Cuba showed an increase in 1904 compared with 1903, and in the few articles showing a decrease the reduction in value was, in some cases at least, due to lower prices, while quantities were greater than those of the preceding year. Flour, cattle, lard, lumber, coal, boots and shoes, corn, cotton cloths, mineral oils and furni- ture, in the order here state, form the largest items in the exports to the is land during the year.
 Cotton cloths show a remarkable in
 crease in 1904 compared with 1903. the number of yards exported being in
 1904. 12,419,293, against 3.S61.2 .295 in , 1903. Crude mineral oils showed a ma terial increase, the quantity being in 1904, 7,1S7,0S5 gallons, against 5,604.- 4T5 gallons in 1903. Refined mineral oils also showed an increase, the ex-
 ports to the island in 1904 being 2,031,
 622 gallons, against 1,46S, ,S36 gallons in 1903. Hog products as a whole formed an important item in our exports to the islands. The value Of the lard ex-
 ported to Cuba was s1.593,0S6 in 1904 while the value of hams exported to
 the island in the same year was $466,- 701;. bacon, s395.S29, ana pork. $269. .303 Products of the factory showed an increase in practically all of the ex- ! bureau of statistics. Boots and shoes for example. showed total value in
 the 1904 exports to Cuba of S1.1S0, POP
 against s744,119 in 1903; cotton cloths
 s655.991 in 1904, against $271,5S2 in 1903; other cotton manufactures, s355. S93 in 1904, against $236,403 in the pre- ceding year; furniture, $4T9,S34 in 1904 against $334,S4S in 1903; builders hard ware, saws and tools, in 1904, S3S9 S44 against $366,325 in the preceding year; paper and manufactures thereof, $S36,- 075 in 1904. against S250,343 in 1903; sewing machines. $291,140 in 1904 ! against $19S,542 in 1908; locomotives $221.0S9 in 1904. against $127,S4 in 1903; leather, $200,254 in 1904, against i S116,494 in the preceding year; books
 maps and engravings. $155.S07 in 1904
 against $9S,314 in the preceding year;
 agricultural implements, s141,679 ir 1904. against $SS.S13 in 1903; typewrit-
 CTS, s53,SS6 in 1904. against S30,9e6 ir 1903; electrical machinery, $35, ,195 ir l 1904, against $2S,016 in 1903, and bicy- 1 cles, s33.S3S in 1904, against $17,199 1T
 the preceding year.
 The value of flour exported from the i United States to Cuba il 1904 was s. 039.655 against $2,06S,0S3 in the pre-
 ceding year, the quantity being in 1904 639,75S barrels against 54S.423 barrel:
 in 1903. Cattle showed a remarkable i increase in number and value, the val
 ue in 1904 being S2,591,629 agains
 $1.393, 295 in 1903. and the number 1 160,15S in 1904 against 93,915 in 1903
 Lumber also showed a marked in
 crease, the figures of value being 1T
 1904 s1.423,975 against s9S0,46S in 1903
 Coal, both bituminous and anthracite showed a gain over the preceding year the value of bituminous coal sent from
 the United States to the island in 190t being $1.379,253, and of anthracite $106,3S while in the preceding yeal i the value of the bituminous coll ex-
 ports was S1,277,471 and of anthracite
 $97,654.