The Jersey City news., 1906-07-02
AUTOS IMPORTED
More Machines Are Brought
Into the Country Than
Are Sent Out
EXPORTS ARE Ss,OOO,OOO
IMPORTS REACHED $4,ooo.oOo-
HALF THOSE MADE HERE TO
SEND ABROAD co TO EUROPE.

than 100000 worth of automobiles will
have been brought into the country dur
ing the fiscal year which ends with thei
present week, and more than S3,0OO'OO0
worth exported during the same time
Figures of our foreign commerce in auto
mobiles, as announced by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor through
its bureau of statistics, show the value
of automobiles imported in the eleven
months ending with May, to have been
s., ,502,244, and of parts thereof, $3IS'-
389. while exports thereof during the
same months amounted to $2,957, 74S. 1t
is apparent. therefore, that the figures
for the full fiscal year which ends with
Saturday of this week will show more
than $4,000,OOO worth of automobiles and
parts thereof imported and more than
$3, 100000 worth exported.
Meantime the manufacture of automo-
biles in the United States has amounted
to presumably more than $26.OO00O05
since the Bureau of Census has recently
issued a preliminary statement which
shows the value Of automobiles maEu-
factured in the United States in 1905 at
$26.645, ,O64 This figure includes
amounts received for custom work and
repairing and value of products other
than automobiles, but as it does not in
clude automobiles, valued at SSI9,2Oo'
manufactured in establishments engaged
primarily in the manufacture of other
products, it may probably be safely set
down that the value of automobiles pro-
duced in the United States approximates
S26 100000 and the imports S4,OO0-O0O,
and that out of this total of So3,oo0,0O0
there was exported about $3.0O0OOO
worth
The rapid increase in theuse of auto
mobiles is shown in marked degree
both by the Bureau of Statistics and
those of the Bureau of Census. The
value of automobiles manufactured in
| 1900 is given by the census figures at
only $4,74S,O11 and in 1905 as above in
dicated, at $26645,O64. The Bureau Of
Statistics figures will show approximate
| " 100000 worth of automobiles i'm
ported in the fiscal year 1906, against
less than So, 100000 in 1905. about ST.
500, COO in 1904, and about $1'00oOoO in
1903.
| OF the S3.0O0.0O0 worth of automo-
biles exuorted in the fiscal year just end
ing, about one-half goes to Europe and
most Of the remainder to Canada, the
West Idies and Australia. The details
of distribution have only been worked
| out for ten months of the present year.
but they show the value exported to the
Unied Kingdom at $616177; to Canada,
S435, $50; to Mexico. $293, ,002: to Italy,
1927, ,5SS; to West Indias and Bermuda,
1924, ,676; to France, $1T0,60t; to Aus
traha and New Zealand. S14S,124; to
South America, S61,7S0; to Germany,
$57, ,259; to British East midas, $31,064,
and to Africa $26,925. OF the imports,
fully two-thirds come from France and
practically all of the remainder from the
United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, in
about equal proportions.
The industrial effect in the United
States of the increased use of automo-
biles (hwiIe it cannot be fully measured
employed in their care, repair, etc. is
/ indicated in some degree by the figures
of the census, which show that the num-
Der of wage-earners in the automobile
| manufacturing establishments of the
country increased from 2,242 in 1900 to
1G239 in 1905: that the wages paid in
creased from S132065S to $6.17S,950;
the salaries of officials, clerks, etc. from
$294.770 to $1,O60,425. and that the ma
terials used, which. of course, largely
represent labor, increased from $1.S04,-
2s7 to S11,65S,13S
The importance of the automatically
propelled vehicle in its relation to the
commercial and Industrial development
of the undeveloped sections of the world
IS suggested by study of the figures of
exports of automobiles to the various
countries and continents.
Lack Of transporting power whether
in the form of horses, canals or railways.
has been oneo the greatest obstacles in
attempts to develop the mountain. desert
and tropical regions Of the world; and
/ the fact that the autolnbile. whether
built primarily for passenger transporter
tion or transportation Of freight, is being
rapidly adopted in those regions in which
animal power is scarce suggests greaT
| possibilities in production and commerce