Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-07-05
ENORMOUS AMOUNTS
WE SPEND ABROAD
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH
OF GOODS PURCHASED.
AMERICANS CONSUMERS
Send Great Sums to Every Market
Sugar, Coffee, Silk, Rubber and
Diamonds Make up the Large
ltems-Exports are Worth Men,
tioning.

Eighteen hundred pages of solid
statistics, has just presented to the
years commerce of the United States
which the department of commerce
and labor, through its bureau of
statistics. has jpust presented to the
public.
Uninteresting as these pages of sta
tistics may appear, the information
which they convey in concrete form
is not only useful to the individual
engaged III production, manufactures,
finance, transportation, or commerce,
but attractive and instructive to those
who follow the details which the
tables present.
1t is interesting, for example, to
learn by the volume Commerce and
Navigation that this great country,
with its varying climate and diversi-
fed soils and facilities of production,
sent more than s145 ,O00,0 900 out of the
country last year to buy sugar; that
practically $65,000,000 of this went to
Cuba, s36.000,0O to our own Pacific is
lands, s15,0O0,000 to the Dutch island
ON the other side of the globe (Java),
and $12,00o,00O to Porto Rico.
1t is also interesting to learn that
SIS, 100000 were sent out of the
country in 1905 to purchase coffee, of
which s64,000,OO0 were for coffee
produced in Brazil For India rubber
to be used in manufacturing $50,000,-
600 were sent out last year, and of
this over S2S,000,000 went to Brazil.
OF raw silk for use in the factories
of the United States, the value i'm
poted in 1905 was over $60,O00,O00
against half as much in 1901; and of
this total of sixty millions, practi-
cally Twenty-Five millions of dollars
worth came from Japan.
Notwithstanding this large impor-
tation of raw silk, the value of silk
manufactures brought in was over
s32, 0O0,0 900, of which France con-
tributed by far the largest proportion.
Another interesting fact is the large
importation of diamonds and other
precious stones, amounting to over
| S33 100000 in the last fiscal year,
against sS,00O,OOO a decade ago.
Turning to the export side, it is in
teresting, for example, to observe that
the expectation of American boots and
shoes has grown to over $4,000, 900
! in value in 1905, and that this product
/ of American manufacture went to
practically every part of the world,
having been sent to eighty-five differ
ent counties and colonies. Iron and
steel is the largest item of exporta-
ton, the total under this class
amounting to $4,000, 900 in 1905,
against $32,000,000 in 1895, and it is
interesting to note that manufactures
of this whether type
writer's, sewing machines, stoves and
ranges, electrical machinery, cash
registers, printing presses, car
wheels, or nails and spikes-were dis
tributed to every part of the world,
the number of countries and colonies
which they invaded aggregating more
than 100. American mineral oil was
also widely distributed, the number of
countries toswhich it was sent during
the year being over eighty and the
value of its expectations $4,000, 900.
| Every sort OF American manufac-
ture was sent in every direction; our
telegraph instruments click In the
wilds of Africa; our sewing machines
whir in the islands OF Oceanica; our
locomotives screech across the plains
Of Siberia, Australia. and India; and
the rattle OF the American reaper and
mower is heard In the fields of north
ern and southern Europe, OF Africa,
Of India, of Australia, of Japan, and
of the Philippine Islands