The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-12-07
REPORT
MANUFACTURES OF COUNTRY VAL.
uE0 AT FIFTEEN Bill.
LION DOLLARS.
Exports for Year Amount to $780,
ooo'ooo-vaiue Of Completed Manu-
features Increased in Spite Of the
Chinese Boycott on American Cot
ton Goods.

washington, D. c., Nov. 30-Fifteen
billions Of dollars represent the value
OF the annual production of manufac-
lures in the United States. After
careful estimates were made by ex-
Perts, John M. Carson, chief of the
bureau of manufactures, was able to
make this statement in the annual re-
port of the operations of manufactur.
ers. These figures do not represent
finished products entirely, but include
products In various stages Of progress.
Last year the aggregate value of
domestic merchandise exported was
$l,854 100000, an increase of nearly
$lS6, 100000 over the preceding year.
In this classification manufactures
ready for consumption" amount to
$3.50 100000 and the figures are gen.
orally accepted as the extent of the
exports Of manufactures. The report
OF the bureau. however, groups this
classification with those of food
stuffs partly or wholly manufactured .
and manufactures for further use in
manufacturing" The aggregate ex-
ports of last year were 100000, 900,
and this amount added to "manufac-
lures ready for consumption" make
the aggregate value of manufactures
exported in the year ended June 80
$1,306,O00,00O, or more than So per
cent of the entire exports of the year.
Increase in Exports.
Special significance is attached to
the increase of nearly $2O,00O,OOO in
the exports Of completed manufac-
lures, in view of the fact that the ex-
ports Of cotton cloths declined more
than $21,0O0,000, this loss being en-
tirely in the cotton trade with China.
The popular feeling aroused in that
country growing out of alleged out
RACES against Chinese residents in the
United States is assigned as a con-
tributory cause for this decline.
The cotton seed products exports
for the year were more than $50, 000,-
900, an increase of $9,500,000 over
ures the report says:
aside from its intrinsic value, this
relatively new industry has an eco
nomic value and the benefits are es-
pecially felt in the several states in
which cotton is grown and in which
the cotton seed indutsdy is naturally
located"
The success attending investigation
by experts sent abroad has led to the
adoption of the policy of specializing
investigations of trade conditions in
foreign markets. One of the obsta-
cles to be encountered in the export
trade is the uncertainty of transit be-
tween places of production and the
seaboard. Merchants in the Orient
especially complain that calculation
cannot be made as to when goods or
dered in the United States will be de-
llivered, and In consequence orders go
to European houses that should come
to this country. The bureau has been
lin correspondence with officials OF
railway and steamship lines. in order
to insure more rapid transit for
goods destined to foreign countries.
Demands made by business men for
Il the extension of parcels post to for
eien countries is discussed. It. IS
claimed that this extension would be
TO omen markets now closed to Amer
lican business men for. lack OF trans
portation facilities.