Arizona republican., 1906-02-26
TRADE WITH
 NORSEMEN
The Great Increase in a
 Decade
Ten Percent of Population of Dem mark and the Peninsula Now in the United States.

Washington. Feb. 25.-Trade of the United States with the Scandinavian countries under which terms are in cluded Sweden, Denmark and Nor way, amounts to 32 million dollars d year, of which millions is imports and 26 millions exports to those coun- tries. These are the figures for the fiscal year 1905. Figures just pre- pared by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of sta tistics, show that in 1905 the total trade with these three countries amounted to II million dollars of which little less than three million
 was imports and a little more than s millions exports. Thus the trade Of hthe United States with these coun- tries has increased practically 200 per cent in the fast decade while our to- tai foreign trade has increased but 70 per cent. How much of this rapid growth in our trade with these coun- tries is due to the large percentage of their people who have become part of the population of the United States, cannot be statistically stated but tt is at least an interesting fact that the Scandinavian population of the United States bears a larger ratio i to the present population of the countries of their nativity than is true | of any other class of our foreign born population. The census of. 1900 shows in the United States 1,062, 100 persons 1 born in Sweden. Denmark and Nor lway. a total equal to 1O.7 per cent of the present population of those countries; while the highest ratio which any other nationality in the 1 United States bears to tae present population of it's home country, is that of the United Kingdom, 6.5 per cent. while Germany ranks next with AS per cent Italy Is per cent, and Aus ] Itria-Hungary Is per cent.
 | Considering separately our trade with Scandinavian countries, and the principal articles which form that trade, it may be said that our total trade with Sweden amounted to $10,1 ,132.752 in 1905. of which imports were S2,935,5S1 and exports $7197,171. The principal imports from Sweden | are iron and steel in various forms, especially the lower grades of manu- facture such as bar iron. pig iron. scrap iron, and wire rods, hides and skins, wood pulp and matches. Swed- | ish fror has a high reputation for cer- | tain qualities valuable in manufacture ] and it is doubtless due to this fact 1 that iron and steel in it's various forms
 
 ! imports from that country. Of our to-
 tai imports from Sweden in the fiscal ! year 1915. iron and steel manufactur- 1 es were valued at S166S .069, or 56 per 1 cent of the total; hides and skins other than fur skins $423,627; wood i pulp $396, ,297, and matches S105. .140. l No other single class showed a total of i so much as $1O0, 900. Exports from the United States to Sweden include | chiefly unmanufactured cotton. refin- ed mineral oil iron and steel manufac- lures, wheat Cchiefly in the form of flour) lard. and fertilizers. Unman-
 ufactured cotton was valued at S1,6S0, | 745. an increase of over a half million
 dollars over the preceding year;
 wheat and wheat flour, S448, ,232 against S279.O4O in 1904; refined min eral oil s1.355.21O fertilizers, s.
 415; lard $335,36S, copper and manu- factures thereof, S3SO612; bacon $1S9.- l 375; oleOmargarine and oleo oil $147,- 112, and other provisions S12S,569. Inn ports from that country have decreas- ed slightly during the past few years, i the total for 1903 having been $3.3S6,- 294. as against $2,935,5S1 last year. Exports on the other hand show a Isteady growth, having increased from iS5,718,022 in 1903 to $7,197171 in 1905
 Imports from Norway show a steady growth, while exports thereto have
 remained practically stationary during the past few years. The imports in 1905 amounted to S2.2O4,5S0, / against s1,58S,940. in 1903. The principal. items appearing in the imports for 1905
 were wood pulp, S912,471, agains; S59s,O94 in 1903; preserved fish, $799,- 710, compared with $6O8,306 in 1903;
 whale oil S179,4S6, or slightly under the figures of 1903 or 1904; and hides and skins $S9,797 The principal items included under the head of fish are