The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-30
IT'S Al GREAT YEAR
FOR AUTOMOBILES
Total Value Of Cars Brought Here Is
$4,ooo,ooo, and Exported Machines
Valued at 100000.

More than s4.000.00O worth DC auto
mobiles win have been brought into Tho
lco'mtry during the fiscal year which
elids with Che present week, and more
than s3,o0o,ooO Worth exported during
the same time. Figures Of our foreign
commerce In automobiles, as announced
by the Department of Commerce and la
Dor through It's Bureau Of Statistics
show tie value OF automobiles imported
lin the eleven months ending with May
to have been $3,502244, and Of parts
Thereof, S37sy3Sa, while exports thereof
during the same months amounted Ii
s2,957,sss- II II apparent, therefore,
that the figures for the full fiscal year
which ends with Saturday Of this week
Twill show more than Sa.00O,000 worth
OF automobiles and parts thereof import
ed and more than S3,000,0O0 worth ex.
ported.
Meantime the manufacture Of auto
mobiles In the United States has
amounted 10 presumably more than SD.
100000, since the Bureau OF tbs Census
has recently issued preliminary state
lnent which shows the value of automos
bile- manufactured iii the United States
in 1905 at S26.645,064. This figure In
eiudes amounts received for custom work
and repairing and value OF products
other than automobiles, valued at $500
POS, manufactured III establishments en-
gagged primarily in the manufacture OF
other products, ii may probably be safe
y set down that the value OF automo.
biles produced in the United States ap-
proximatcs S26,00O00D and the imports
s4.000,oo and that out OF this total OF
s30,000,000 there was exported about
S3,O0o,000 worth.
The rapid increase in the Use of auto
mobiles Il shown In 4 marked degree
both by the figures Of the Bureau OF
Statistics and those Of the Bureau Of
the Census. The value Of automobiles
manufactured in 1900 IS given by the
census figures at only S4.54s,0il and in
1905. as above indicated, at S26.645,064.
The Bureau OF Statistics figures Will
show approximately S4,00O.e00 worth OF
automobiles imported in the fiscal year
1906, against less than s2.50o.000 in
1905, about 5 ,s0p.000 in 1904, and
about 4i,o00.4ed IN 1908
Of tne s3.eD0.GD0 worth of ahtomo-
biles exported instiie fiscal wear iuss emil
ing, about onc.llalfl gieSg q Europe and
most OF the remainder to Canada, Mex
leo, the West Indies and Australia The
details Of distribution have only been
worked out for ten months of the pres
ent year, bsit they show che value ex.
ported to The United kiuedam at S61e,
III; to Canada, S435,s50; to Mexico,
S2aa,002: TO Italy, Ss27, SIS; TO West
Indies and bermuda, $224.6s6i to
France, Sis0,G0i; 10 Australia and New
Zealand, Sl4S,124; to South America.
SCI ESQ; to Germany. $57.259; to Brit
isir East indies, S3i ,o46, ana to Africa,
s2G,ga5. OF the imports, fully two
thirds came from France and practically
an Of the remainder from tile United
Kingdom, Germany aud Italy, in about
equal proportions.
The Industrial effect in the United
States Of the increased use Of altomo-
biles (whiIc it cannot be fully measured
because OF the large number of people
in their care, repair, etc.) il
indicated in some degree by the figures
Of The census, which show that the mum.
Der Of wagcearners in the automobile
establishments Of The
country increased from 2,24s in 1900 to
l0,23s in 1905; that tbewages paid in.
from Si.32u,05S to S6,l7S,950;
the salaries Of officials, clerks. etc, from
Ss94.sf0 20 81 060.A25 nnd That the
used, which Of course largely
represent labor, increased from 81 ,SO4,
PSI to $i1 ,G5S, l3s.