The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-27

oily additional item in excess of
only additional item in excess of 800,
100000 in value. Until within recent
years the United States had been i'm
porting considerable quantities of
cane sugar from Egypt, but the re-
vival of the sugar industry in Cuba,
beginning with 1908, coupled with the
shortage In the Egyptian crop during
the past three years, has tended to re-
duce our imports of sugar from that
country, the total having decreased
from $3,362,591 in 1899 to $415,551 in
1904 and to nothing in 1905. The ex-
ports to Egypt from the United States
in 1905 were valued at $752,489,
decrease of about a half million dol
lars from the figures of 1901 or 1902,
when bread-stuffs were exported to
that country in considerable quanti-
ties. Of the exports of last year, iron
and steel manufactures were the most
important, being valued at $20S,35
against $113,S45 for refined mineral
oils and $150,073 for boards and other
manufactures of wood.
Our trade with Portuguese Africa
almost exclusively of exports, which
in 1905 valued at $1,736,75S, compared
with but $14,7S9 of imports. The
principal items exported thereto in
1905 were iron and steel manufac-
lures, 1891 1853; refined mineral oils,
$3O6,496; wheat flour, $17O,345; and
wood and wood manufactures, $780,
961. A large part of this went to the
Portuguese colony on the southeastern
coast of Africa, and was trans-shipped
thence into the British colonies of
Transvaal and Orange river.
From French Africa, exclusive of
Madagascar, our imports in 1905 were
valued at $625,071, hides and skins
being the largest item, with total of
$37S,361. To that section of Africa our
exports in 1905 were valued at $S12,-
334; leaf tobacco being set down at
$206,711; cotton-seed oil, s164965 ma
chinery, $114,179, and wood and manu-
factnrers thereof, Sill ,497.
The trade of the remaining colonies
of Africa is chiefly with the countries
by which they are administered, this
being especially true of the French
colony of Madagascar, the Congo,
which is under the control of Belgium
and the various possessions of Ger
many, Italy, and Spain; their trade
with the United States is inconsider-
able. Liberia is the only republic on
the African continent. Our annual
imports therefrom range from $4,000
downward, while our exports thereto
1904, the latest available year, were,
as nearly as may be ascertained in the
absence of any record for certain tri-
bal countries, in round terms, 465 mil
: lion dollars; and the total exports, $50
millions, exclusive of gold, of which
the amount shipped from South Africa
in 1904 was valued at SO millions. The
imports into Africa were chiefly manu-
features, an dthe exports chiefly dia-
monds, rubber. gums, wool, ostrich
feathers, hair, hides and skins, ivory,
Egyptian cotton, vegetables, coffee,
cacao, palm oil, spices and woods.
OF the imports into Africa, 200 mil
lion dollars worth went into British
lis millions into French, 107 millions
into Turkish EGYPT, Is millions in
to Portuguese, 8 millions into Ger
man. millions into Belgian territory,
and 10 millions into Morocco. OF the
total exports, 100 millions went from
British, 100 millions from Turkish, SO
millions from French, ~ millions
from Belgian, 10 millions from Portu-
guese territory, and millions from
Morocco.