Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-11-27
HEALTHY INCREASE IN
COMMERCE is SHOWN
Will Exceed Former Year By
Many Million Dollars.
-eTATl6rIcs OF THE GOVERNMENT
Il Is Shown that Our Trade With Non.
Contiguous Territory Has Greatly In.
eroaSod-Flgures Only Relate to mer,
ehandise, Gold Being Excluded.

Washington, Nov. 25.-Tle com.
-merce Of the United States with non.
Contiguous territory in 1905 seems like.
~ 20 exceed by many millions that
-oS any preceding year, according 10 a
statement Issued by the department OF
finance and labor through its business
OF statistics.
Toe bureaus nine months statement
ending with September shows that the
shipments from the United States TO
its non-contiguous territory amounted
10 $685., ia against $29, 1928, 079 in the
corresponding months of the preceding
year and that the shipments of mer.
-chandise to the United States from its
non-cOntiguOus territory in the same
period amounted to sec, $50 600 against
s847,141, 638 In the corresponding
months OF the preceding year The
figures given relate TO merchandise
only, and do not include the gold and
silver, OF which the shipments from
Alaska to tine Uuited States were only
R7OOO, 900 Of gold produced in that ter
ritory and $500, 900 Of foreign gold
shipped from Alaska being presumably
that originating in territory adjacent
thereto.
In the merchandise shipped from
Alaska to the United States there is
q falling on Of a little less than $1,000.
900 compared with the previous year
In shipments from the United States
there was an increase Of nearly 1900.
900 to Alaska, Of over $1,000 900 to
Porto Rico about $1,000 900 TO toe
Philippines and nearly $1,000. 900 TO the
Hawaiian Islands. In shipment from
che non.cOndguOus territory 20 the
United States there was an increase
OF about 5000 900 from Porto Rico
. OF over $4,000 900 from tne Philippines
and about $4,000. 600 from the Hawaii.
an Islands.
The statement makes comparisons
OF the contrast In the trade OF the
United States with the above named
places with the period prior 10 annexa
ton. In the nine mOnths ended Sept
1891, the year prior 70 the annexation
OF Porto Rico. the shipments Of mer.
.enandise from that island % the Unit.
ed States amounted TO &i767 O2S a.
against Sl6.i76,676 in the nine months
Just ended. The nine months Of 1897
the shipments from the Hawaiian
fslands 70 TIE United States amounted
60 Ii3.otl, "a as against SECESSION
IN 1905. Tue shipments from the
Philippines for the nine months Of
1897 amounted 70 t3.362. go as agains,
SlI.Ts2Tl4 in 1905
Tno estimate Il made that the total
commerce With ere non contiguous ter.
Fii0ry fOg the entire year ~ 1905 viii
approximate tieb. 10000. Ia fhip |
men1 o. sugar from tho Hawaiian
Islands tDr The nine nDoutha ended with /
.sspsshibcr amounted 10 t23.itS.t7I Of
nav sugAr and u,7S2.7Si of rranei
sugar. Ths GhiBneats 81 redned ~
gar from HagNH Aggregated f5S13sS5s
pounds a. trzins, no FAtpments dur
fng tae correagondlng period a thu pre-
cednG year Porto Rtco shipme1ts
o. sugar nm0urted 20 ti1.otoGs3 q e.
rars u6isBss aua q ieaf tohsoco
a1aae5i.
Fr0m ths Philippines 80 mot iDpof
Van, shiuEnr1ts we're. Nanila aemp
o. So SCI aid Fagsr t24IS.ts