Arizona republican., 1906-05-22

1 of raw wool show an especially large
 increase during the past decade, their
 total for 1905 having been $6.61S.369.
 against $2,517,21O in 1904 and $1.S46,- l 934 in 1895. Most of this wool is of
 the class designated as "clothing."
 combing wool appearing in the imports only at long intervals and in negli-
 gible quantities, while practically no carpet wool is ever imported from
 Australian colonies. Imports of bitu-
 minous coal from Australia chiefly for
 the Pacific coast, increased from $512.-
 651 in 1895 to S1,O94,055 in 1904, but in 1 1905 receded to $434. BPS. the smallest ! total, with two exceptions, shown dur 1 ing the past decade. Gums, chiefly copal. cowrie, and dammar, show an 1 increase in importation of over a half million dollars since 1895. the total for
 that year having been S1,0S3,035 and 1 for 1905 S1.6S2, 939. Imports of unman- , ufactured fbers increased from $51. .591 | in 1895 to S1027,735 in 1905: those of
 hides and skins, from $26S.525 in 1895
 to $1.124.262 in 1905; undressed furs
 and fur skins. from $S1,3S in 1895 to 1 s411,6O1 in 1903 and S142OS4 in 1905; and sausage castings from $194,47S in
 1895 to $224,272 in 1905. Tin in bars.
 blocks and pigs shows a marked de- crease in imports from Australasia during the decade the value having declined from S494224 in 1895 to $176,- | 6S1 in 1905.
 | Exports from the United States to British Australasia include iron and steel manufactures, refined mineral
 oils. wood and it's various manufac- lures, tobacco and manufactures there ! of (chiefy plug), paper and paper manufactures. boots and shoes, upper | leather cotton manufactures fruits and nuts, agricultural implements, fish, chemicals and drugs Cpatent and pro- prietary medicines forming a large share), cars and carriages, clocks and watches, rosin and turpentine, and
 many other articles of lesser values | ranging as high as s1OO,OOO each per annUm. The statistics of our exports to Australia and New Zealand disclose the preponderance of manufactures and the absence of Agricultural pro- ducts in any considerable quantities. Comparing conditions in 1905 with those of a decade earlier, exports of
 builders hardware increased from | s635,494 in 1895 to $1,223,O66 in 1905; sewing machines, from S224.875 to $541, ,713; wire, from $IO6,799 to $994.- 757. and iron and steel manufactures as a whole from S1,543,739 in 1895 to $6.695,253 in 1905. Meantime exports of refined mineral oils increased dur ! ing the decade from S1,541,O73 in 1895
 to S2,63S 455 in 1905; tobacco manufac- tuhes from S1.3O3,69O to SI795191: 1 agricultural implements. from $246,- | 93O to S1,159, 933: unmanufactured to- bacco, from S26S,079 to $74I2I5, and paper manufactures. from S269 294 in | 1SQ5 to SG4Q 40A in bo Iattar c,,y,, i however. being a million dollars less than that for 1901 and considerably be-
 low that for any year since 1891. Ex- ports of boots and shoes increased from $62,090 in 1895 to $499 TOP while | in 1901 the total had risen to the un-
 usual level of over a million and a half dollars. Upper leather increased from ! S50,62S in 1895 to $517,7S8 in 1905: cot ton cloths from S59.O84 to S56O. 994: ! other cotton manufactures, from $S9,- | 0S7 to $51S,1S5. and boards, deals. and | blanks from s419,5S1 in 1895 to $1,565.- | 211 in 1904 and $S66.094 in 1905.
 While several of the articles above enumerated show in 1905 decrease as
 compared with the immediately pre-
 ceding year, the total exports from the United States to Australia and New Zealand are now practically three
 
 exact figures for 1905 being $26, ,353,311, against S9,014,26S in 1895.
 The fact that the returns of the bureau of statistics have in the past placed the Australian colonies and New Zealand in a single statistical group. under the title of British Aus tralasia," prevents an accurate deter
 imitation of the share of the exports which goes to New Zealand, but the fact that the gentral imports of New Zealand are but about one fourth as much in value as those of the Austral- ian commonwealth suggests that the share going to New Zealand is prob ably small This can be determined with accuracy after the present fiscal year, as the bureau of statistics will report New Zealand separately in it's trade returns after July l.
 While the imports into British Aus tralasia from. the United States for 1904 are but about one-fifth as great as those from the United Kingdom. they are far greater than those of any other country and in fact practically equal the combined imports into Aus tralla from all countries exclusive of the British empire. The United States is credited with having supplied 22 millions of the direct imports into British Australasia, compared with I1O millions from the United Kingdom. 8 millions from India and Ceylon, , mil | Hons from all other British posses sions, 13 millions from Germany and IA millions from all other foreign countries.
 The only countries to which we ex- ported a larger value of rnercbandise Tn 1905 than to Australasia are the United Kingdom, to which the total | exports were 523 million dollars: Ger | many, 194 millions; Canada, Al mill