Arizona republican., 1906-07-04

| $50; to Mexico, $293 002; to Italy, $227,- 5SS; to West Indies and Bermuda SPA, ,e76: to, France, $17O, sol; to Aus tralia and New Zealand. $14S,1 to South America, $6I,7S0; to Germany S57. .259 to British East Indies, s31,- 046. and to Africa, $26,9 Of the inn ports, fully two-thrds came from France and practically all of the re- mainder from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, in about equal proportions.
 The industrial effect in the United States of the increased use of auto mobiles (while it can not be fully measured because of the large number of people employed in their care, re- pair, etc.) is indicated in some degree by the figures of the census, which show that the number of wage -earners in the automobile manufacturing es- tablishments of the country increased from 2,242 in 1900 to 10,239 in 1905; that the wages paid increased from S1.320, ,65S to S6,17S,950; the salaries of officials. clerks, etc, from $294,770 to $1O60,425; and that the materials used, which of course largely represented labor. increased from $1,804,2S7 to SI1.65S,13S.
 The importance of the automatically
 
 commercial and industrial development of the undeveloped sections of the world is suggested by a 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 one of the greatest obstacles in attempts to develop the mountain. des- ert and tropical regions of the world; and the fact that the automobile, whether built primarily for passenger transportation or transportation of freight, is being rapidly adopted in those regions in which animal power is scarce suggests great possibilities in production and commerce through the use of vehicles of this character.
 Reports from United States consuls and others have shown the practical application of automatically propelled vehicles in many of the comparatively undeveloped countries, especially in the tropics, including Mexico, the West In- dia Islands, South America, Africa, India, the Malay peninsula, Java, China, Japan, and the Philippine Is lands, all Of them sections in which animal power for transportation is ex- tremely scarce and development de- layed by reason of that scarcity. The BtOEoA AioildltlS ldIE1t CAlOi teAtiClA bL to sections of this char acter is a suggestion of the practical uses apparently being made in those countries of this class of vehicles. About 20 per cent of the automobiles exported from the United States in the year just closing went to Mexico and the West Indies, while only about ' per cent of the other exports went to those countries.
 The export trade in automobiles has advanced rapidly in recent years and suggests a probably rapid growth in the near future. The total value of exported from the United States in the ten months ending with April, 1906, was S2,473,207, against S1. .S76.063 in the corresponding months of 1905 and $1542535 in the corre- spending months of 1904, and thus in dicates that the automobile may take the place in our export trade of bicy- cIes, of which the exportation has fallen from S7OO5,3 in 1897 to $1,37S,- 42S in 1905. The exports of automo- mobiles from France were in round terms. 10 million dollars value in 1903 and 20 millions in 1905.