Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-18
ISLANDS INCREASE
TRADE WITH U. S.
N0N-CoNTlGU0US TERRIFIC.
RlEs GOOD CUSTOMERS
Total Amount Of Trade During Fiscal
Year Reaches sIIs. .so4, 4,5lI--shlp-
ments by Uncle Sam Are
Over $5l,ooo,ooo
i3v Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Trade OF
the United States with its non-contig-
uous territories amounted I'm the fiscal
year Just ended to S119.304.511.
A bulletin isued today by the depart-
ment of commerce and labor says:
THE shipments to the non-contig-
nous territories amounted to 81 2-S mil
lion dollars against 431h millions in the
fiscal year of 1905, this growth Of about
20 per cent occurring in the shipments
to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico,
hut especially to Porto Rico while to
the Philippines there was reduction
OF three-quarters of a million dollars.
"The merchandise shipped from nom
contiguous territories to the United
States amounted to 81 2-3 million dol
lars. against 75k millions in the pre-
ceding year. the loss occurring almost
exclusively in the shipments from the
Hawaiian islands. and being due
chiefly to the decrease In the value
of sugar, which formed the bulk Of the
"a MILTON dollars worth of merchandise
sent last year from there to the United
States.
ssThe quantity OF raw sugar sent
from Hawaii to the United States was
712 million pounds, against S11 million
the preceding year, but the value was
but "a million dollars. against "a mill
lion dollars in the preceding year, the
cents and In 1906. 3.3 cents.
From Alaska the shipments to the
United States show a slight reduction.
due to a decrease in canned salmon
shipped to the United States from 9215
million pounds in 1905 to S61k million
in 1906, the value being about eight
million dollars less
Porto Rico Shipments Increase
From Porto Rico the shipments to
the United States were 10 million dol
lars, against 151a millions in 1905. This
increase occurs chiefly in sugar, and
the value Of sugar sent here being
1415 million dollars, against a little
over u million dollars in 1905, and of
cigars three million dollars, against
a little over two million dollars In 1905.
1.-THE figures show an increase in
shipments to all of the non-contiguous
territories, except the Philippine
islands.
ssThe shipments to Alaska for the fis-
cal year 1906 were is million dollars,
against liz million dollars in 1905; to
Porto Rico. 10 million dollars, against
Ia million dollars; to Hawaii IL million
dollars. against 11% million dollars,
and to the Philippines, 5h million dol
lars. against 6A million dollars.
''The shipments from the Philippines
to the United States were $12,S77977 in
1906, against $12, ,657 ,904 in 1905.
1.-The value of gold of domestic pro-
duction shipped from Alaska, to the
United States in 1906 was 1914 million
dollars, against nine million dollars in
the preceding year. and of foreign gold
~ millions. against 10% millions, this
foreign gold being the product of
mines in the adjacent British territory
shipped to the United States through
Alaska.
'"The shipments to non-contiguous
territories were principally manufac-
lures and foodstuffs in prepared or
partially prepared state.
1.-The merchandise shipped from the
tropical territories was chiefly sugar,
hemp and tobacco"