Arizona republican., 1906-07-06
HALF BILLION MANUFACTURES The Record for Eleven
 Months
The Exports Exceeded
 ThOse'Of the Same Period
 Last Year by $5S, ,OOO,OOO

Washington, July 5.-ExpOrts of manufactures from the United States
 in May 1906, were larger than in any preceding month in the history of our
 export trade. aggregating over 56 mill
 lion dollars, an average of more than 2
 million dollars for each business day of
 the month. This is the showing made
 by the returns received in the bureau
 of statistics of the department of com
 merce and labor For the eleven
 months ending with May exports of
 manufactures aggregated 551 million
 dollars, an average of nearly ? million
 dollars for each business day of the eleven months. For the month of May
 alone they are million dollars in ex-
 cess of those for May of the preceding
 year, and for the eleven months aggre-
 gate 5S millions more than in the cor
 responding months of the preceding
 year. These figures seem to justify the
 prediction that the total exports of
 manufactures for the fiscal year just ended will aggregate about 600 million
 dollars. against 543 millions in 1905,
 434 millions in 1900, and 229 millions | in 1896, having thus increased about 160 per cent during the decade. while other domestic exports were increasing but about 76 per cent.
 A comparison of the exports of man. ufactures in the fiscal year 1906 with those of earlier years shows that the growth in the last decade has been much greater than that of any earlier decennial period. The total value of manufactures exported in 1856 was 31 | million dollars, and in 1866, 49 millions,
 an increase of 18 millions. Tn 1876 the total was 102 millions, an increase dur | ing the decade of 53 millions; in 1886 ! the total was 136 millions, an increase of 34 millions during the decade; in | 1896 the total was 228 millions, an in- | crease 92 millions during the decade, and should the estimate of 600 million ! dollars for 1906 prove reasonably ac- curate the increase during the decade ending with the present year would ap- proximate 370 millions, the gain in the last decade having been four times as great as that in any earlier decenntal term. The relative share which manu- | factures form of the exports also shows marked gain, having been in 1856. HIS per cent; in 1866, 10.6 per cent; in 1876. III per cent; in 1886. POS per cent; in 1896, 26.5 per cent. and in 1906, approximately 34 per cent.
 The increase in the exportation of manufactures during the year. which has amounted to something more than 50 million dollars, occurs in a large proportion of the articles forming the large total of 600 million dollars. but chiefly in manuyfactures of iron and steel, manufactures of cotton, leather and manufactures thereif, cars and carriages agricultural implements, mineral oil. furniture, paper. paraffin,
 scientific instruments. manufactures
 of India rubber. manufactures of fib- CTS and other less important items.
 Under the general head of iron and
 steel, in which the increase during the
 ten months ending with April amount
 ed to about 20 million dollars, locOmo- tives show an increase of two and a
 half millions; metal-working machin-
 cry, nearly two millions; builders
 hardware, one and three-quarter mill limos; sewing machines, about one mill lion; electrical machinery. about three
 quarters of a million; typewriters, gnearly half a million; pipes and fit
 tings, over a half million; wire about a
 half million; structural iron and steel
 little over a million. Agricultural
 implements show an increase during
 the same period of about one and a
 half million dollars.