Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-08-29
COTTON Still King
Holds lis Position At the Head
of All Productions
PROVISIONS TAKE SECOND PLACE
Then Iron and Steel Manufacturers.
Large Increase iii Some Lines in
The Last Ten Years.

The fact that exports Of domestic
merchandise from the Tinted States
have doubled within the last 10 years:
coupled with the constant demand
for information concerning articles
in which that growth was developed,
has set the experts Of the Bureau Of
Statistics Of the Department OF COM
merce and Labor 10 figuring. The re-
suit has been the preparation of a
special table showing. in ihe order of
magnitude: the principal factors in
the export trade Of the fiscal year
which ended June 80 last. TO this
they have added, for comparative pur-
poses, column showing the cxporta-
tions Of the same articles i'll 1896.
The analysis shows that three class
es-law cotton. provisions and iron
and steel nanufactures-had i'll 1906
attained each a total expectation of
more than $l00.000.0D0, which i'll 1896
bit two classes-cstton and provis-
ions--werc entitled TO that distinc-
ton. In 1906 the articles which
showed each aa expectation of be-
tween $5o,OOO,00O and $100,eOO.0O0
were five in number-copper manu-.
features, refined mineral oil. corn,
aour and manufactures Of cotton y
decade earlier, in 1896, but two items
fell into this group-refnel minera!
oil aud -four.
In The fiscal year just ended II arii-
res or classes of articles showed each
an. export value of from $10,000,G00
to. 81, ,000,0 0,000-cattle, leather aud IFS
products, boards, unmanufactured TO-
f,acco, wheat, agricultural implements.
Oil cakes, bituminous coal. chemicals.
,ats. vegetable oils. timber, fruits and
nuts, manufactures Of wood, carlia-
;es. scientific instruments and spirits
of turpentine-wllilc in 1876 there
we're but uine articles entitled 10 "
place iii this class-iron and steel,
co1n,s wheat, cattle, tobacco. leather.
cotton manufactures, copper Elanil.
:i'actures ::.ld boards.
Clothe and Feed Other Nations.
Raw cotton still occupies first rank
and is entitled 10 tue title of .king
Cotton" which it has Lclne for years.
Provisions continued to rank in sec
aad place. indicating that the United
States is still doing business as a
storehouse that furnishes the. food
products Ie, otherscollitriess..ss
Iron and steel manufactures have
taken rank in third place and refined
mineral oil has dropped from third
place i'll 1896 10 fifth place il 190G.
Copper manufactures have shown a
notable growth. having advanced from
eleventh place in 1896 10 fourth
place in 1906. While iioil
shows an increase OF $77.0aG,aOD
in the decade, its relative 20,
sition among the leading articles Of
transportation has changed from
fourth ius1S96 TO seventh i'll 1906. and
wheat. whose expectation Of &40. .O00.-
900 gave ii sixth place in 1896 has
reeeded TO thirteenth place. with q
total expectation of $2S, ,757,5l7 in
the Year inst ended
Agricultural implements exported
are ilve times as great i'll value as in
1896. and this large increase has adj
vanced the position Of that class from
twenty-third in 1896 to fourteenth in
1906. Exports Of oats, which oc.
cupied the thirty-frst rank in 1896,
Guadruplcd during tho decade and
advanced 10 eighteenth place last
yea..
Cotton manufactures, while small
in comparison with these of Great
Britain. Germany and France. espcci-
ally in view OF our great supply Of
'aw cotton have shown some in
Toreniant since 1896, their posi-
ioa among our expectations having
advanced from twelfth iu 1896 to
,ighth in 1906, and the value Of their
exports from $16,s37,396 decade
ago ID. nearly $53,00O,Q00 in the year
jast ended.
Comparative Table of Exports.
The following table shows the value
of 32 leading classes of articles cx-
ported in 1896 and 1906 and includes
go per cent. of the exports OF last
year. thus aA'ording a ready means
of tracing the elements OF growth in
our exports since 1886:
Articles 1896 1876
COTTON unmanu-
factured :. :. ;. Sl9a.O5s. 4dl s4o1 CO. 9aai
Provisions -. 49,. l2,,hQa59U .lu,9so tGj
Iron and steel
manufactures 4liCI.S;7 1C9.Ggi 9S5