Arizona republican., 1906-06-04
APRIL TRADE
 BROKE RECORD
Amounted to a Quarter of
 a Billion Dollars
At This Rate the Business for the Fis- cal Year Will Exceed Three Billions.

1 Washington, June 3.-The foreign commerce Of the United States in AprilS | 1906, was larger than that of the cor responding month of any earlier year. consisting of 107 million dollars imports and IA millions exports; total. 151 | millions, or more than quarter of a billion dollars in a single month. In only one previous April in the history of our export trade has the total of inn ports and exports reached as much as 200 millions. For the ten months end l ing with April the record is equally 1 striking, being: Imports, 1,01 millions; l exports, 1,4SS millions, or a total of l 2,5 509 millions. No similar period of any l earlier year ever touched the one bill | lion dollar line in imports or reached the 1900 million line in exports. The total commerce of the United States for ] the ten months ending with April is thus over ? 1-2 billions of dollars, and should the monthly average of May and June be as great as that for the | ten months for which the record is made. the total Of the fiscal year 1906 will exceed 9 billion dollars.
 The fiscal year 1906 seems likely to make a new record in the foreign trade ! in several particulars. The total inn ports and total exports are in each case | likely to be greater than those of any earlier year, and several monthly rec | Ords have been already broken. For eX- ample imports never exceeded 100 million dollars month prior to 1905 | except in a single instance in which ! large quantities of merchandise were | being rushed into the country to avoid pending tariff changes; but seven ou. of the ten months ending with April of l | importation of more than 100 millions, and the month of March showed the highest import record ever made, $113,- 597,211.
 On the export side the high water mark of earlier years has also been passed, the total for the ten months ending with April being 200 millions iE ] excess of the total for the correspond ing total of any earlier year, and the total for the single month of December S199, 73S ,52O, being 25 million dollars greater than in any preceding month in the history of our export trade.
 The increase in imports occurs in manufacturers materials and finished
 manufactures, and the increase in ex- ports occurs in agricultural products, and manufactures. The increase in inn
 ports for the ten months ending with l-April amounts to about S6 million dol lars, and is about equally divided be- ltween manufacturers materials and manufactures, that total figures for the mine months of which the department of commerce and labor through it's bu
 reau of statistics has completed the
 analysis indicating d gain of about Al millions in manufacturers materials,
 and 51 millions in the two classes, man lufactures and luxuries, while there is
 a decrease of about 20 millions in food Istuffs. In exports there is for the ten
 months an increase of 215 millions, and
 the nine months figures now complet- led, show a gain of about 136 millions in 2 agricultural products and about 20 mill lions in manufactures.
 While the full totals of the ten months period have not yet been re-
 ceived by the bureau of statistics, fig
 uTes relating to exports of breadstuffs
 provisions, live animals, cotton and
 mineral oils are in hand for the full
 ten months. These indicate an increase
 in breadstuffs alone of about 73 mil
 lion dollars compared with the cores bonding ten months of last year; 34 millions in provisions; 36 millions in cotton. and about 1-2 millions in min
 eral oil. The increase in breadstuffs
 occurs in corn, wheat, flour and oats.
 The total value of corn exported in the
 ten months ending with April is g 1-2
 million dollars again fl millions in the
 same months of last year; the value of
 wheat exported is 26 millions, against
 a little less than 4 millions in the same months of last year; oats. fl 3-4 mil-
 lions against a little more than one
 million last year.
 Of the D 1-2 million dollars worth
 oi corn exported in the ten months, :I little over F million dollars went out of
 he port of New York, about as much
 from Baltimore, over millions from
 New Orleans, 1-2 millions from Gal
 weston millions from Philadelphia,
 and a little less than 4 millions from
 Boston. Of the 26 million dollars worth or wheat exported in the ten months
 practically millions went out of Pu-
 get Sound, 1-2 millions from New
 York, IA millions from the customs
 district of Williamette-of which Port
 land, Oregon, is the chief port-a little ] over millions from Galveston anC
 about 1 million each from Baltimore
 and Philadelphia. Of the 30 million ! dollars worth of flour, over F millions went out of New York, millions from Puget Sound, nearly millions from Baltimore, about millions from Phil adelphia, and 1-2 millions from New Orleans
 or the nearly 15 million dollars worth of oats exported in the ter months. 1-4 millions went from Phil alelphia millions from Newport News a little less than millions from New ! York, 21-2 millions from Baltimore, anC | a little over million from New Or ] leans. Of the 159 1-2 million dollars
 worth of breadstuffs of all classes ex O