Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-17

e"uIhS With April, 1907. amo,,ptal, a.
So'oo-.zo-, against SSS,36O in the co..
l',0i'ils Oh lso=. The total shipments
- '"s'oh manufactures to the island in
tlie zen months of 1907 amounted IA
N-''fo'-1S. against $1,415.7S4 in the cor-
| esi'ohdlng months of 1904. The vaI,o
- hre1dstuffs SHIPPED TO the island in
ths ten months of 1897 was 81 900 e5o
aSalrSt SJ1S,291 in the same ,nonths Of
lto4 Cars and carriages shinred n
Porto Rico in the ten months ~ 1ao-
amounted to $780,, 27S, against s11O Sos in
'ie same months of 1904; leather and
manufactures thereof IN the ten months
VI lSo'' TO s6SI,2S1, against $236, 425 in
l'ie same months of 1904; meat and
GARY products, Sl.359.Q55 in the zen
months ~ 1904, against $l.031 ,5GJ in the
same months of 1904; rice, SO, f39, 900 in
the Ten months of 1907, against $780,
y? in the same months of 1904 ami
wood ana manufactures thereof 81 13I.-
o9f IN tie ten months of 1907, against
s"59,t4 in the same months of 1904,
these figures relating To domestic mer-
chandise only. The shipments from
Porto Rico to continental United
States are chiefly sugar. tobacco and
fruits; those OF sugar having amount
ed to $lC,746,714 in the ten months of
1907, against $5.S54.7CS in the cores
pending months of 1904; tobacco and
manufactures thereof, $4,G4J.70 in the
ten months Of 1907, against s., 1896, $50 in
the same month Of 1904, and fruits,
sGGo.S@S in the ten months of 1907,
against s400.452 in the corresponding
months of 1904
TrIa IL, - L.
ments have grown from So 32G,240 in ten
months of 1903 to S7,411,470 in the same
months Of 1907, an increase of 123 per
cent. Cotton manufactures sent to the
islands. which in the ten months of
1903 We're $295,133, We're in the same
months OF 1907, 81, $50, JOS in value; iron
ard steel manufactures, which in the
ten months Of 1875 amounted to but
$553, $40, were in the same period Of 1907,
S1,5S2,177. The value of mineral oils
shipped to the islands from the United
States increased from $275,9 in the ten
months of 1903 to $685. in the same
months Of 1907, ard breadstuffs from
5000, 136 in the ten months of 1893 TO
$466,5-e in the corresponding months Of
1907. Merchandise sent from the Phil
irpine Islands to the United States
which the total value in the ten
months ending with April. 1907, was
$9.049,9S4 ont Of a grand total of $780,
475, the value OF all other articles
amounting 10 but $5SO,991, Of which
s3l4,092 was sugar, while in the same
months of 1904 the value of the hemp
s"nt from those islands to the United
States was $9,499422, and that OF all
9 inIN
leo was sugar.
IN the trade with Hawaii the ship
mcnts from the United States include
merchandise OF all kinds, the more inn
pnrtant groups having been in the ten
months ending With April, 1907. bread
stuffs. S1.153S4G; cotton manufactures,
81 ,295. 500: iron and steel manufactures,
81 ,46S .651 mineral oil. S30,45l; and meat
and dairy products, $5e5,3ii. The prln-
cipal article in the shipments from
Hawaii to the United States is sugar,
which in the ten months or l9oi
amounted in value to $20,2Sz,3Sl. While
the value of all other merchandise
shipped to the United States was
$l1SA.SS5
In the trade with ALASKA the ship
n,rnts from the United States are COM
pOSSU II nlSCIlI3nebuS Itl5! SliatiiiA'o'
more especially iron and steel manu-
rort1rcs. which in the ten months Of
1907 amounted to S@%,O94,S15; meat and
dairy products. $1.771,995: wood and
manufactures thereof, $72S,ESI; wooden
goods. chiefly wearing apparel, $'3''-
IA. snirits. wines and liquors S6396i9'
vegetables $597, ISL; fruits, $43),9S6; cot
ION manufactures, $iS0,lhI; ana bread
cturfs $57S 4a4 The shipments from
Alaska to the United States con"lst
chiefly Of canned salmon. OF when lie
t,taI or tie tn r0nn;hs Of 1904 was
& 4ga. iIG: other fish. $UvI,t"l; copper
ore 81 104 1859; and furS and fur SKINS
e5rS o2l. while domestic gold from the
mines of Alaska shipped to the omteu
states during the same period atl'ount-
"a to S17.7.T-27 and silver To Slj''3o'
rho sbi,,uents Of domestic gold from
Alaska Gncluding in this term "h'y
that from mines within Alaska ahd NOT
i,cl,,dinp that from adjacent BrltiSh
territory shipped Ly way OF AiaSNp
amounted in the ten months OF i'"f -
a. cor Oq1. ard in the same mohthS VI
Tor- nc above indicated. to $l','2','2''
t,.,,;rr fms trebled in value IN thr
tI,raa-[..ar period from 1904 20 1901 ann
haing in the ten months 81 l"' ~
and n half times the SUM !''' i''