Vashon Island news. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1907-19??, 1907-12-06
REPORT
MANUFACTURES OF COUNTRY VAL
uED AT FIFTEEN Bill
LION DOLLARS.
Exports for Year Amount to $780,
oo,ooo-value of Completed Manu-
features Increased in Spite of the
Chinese Boycott on American Cot
ton Goods.
ton Goods.

Washington, d. c., Nov 9O-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 NJ. Carson, chief of the
bureau of manufactures, was able to
port of the operations of manufacture
ers. These figures do not represent
finished products entirely. sut include
products in various stages Of progress.
Last year the aggregate value Of
domestic merchandise exported was
1854 100000, an increase Of nearly
s136, 100000 over the preceding year.
In this classification manufactures
ready for consumption amount to
$3.50, 00O, 900 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 s60,00O,0O0
and this amount added to manufac
lures ready for consumption" make
the aggregate value of manufactures
exported in the year ended June so
s1.306s 100000, or more than IS per
cent of the entire exports of the year
Increase in Exports.
Special Significance is attached to
the increase of nearly s20,OOs,00o in
the exports of completed manufac
lures, in view of the fac. that the ex-
ports Of cotton cloths declined more
than s21,000,OO0, 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 con-
tributory cause for this decline.
The cotton seed products exports
for the year were more than 100000
1000, an increase of se,51d.O00 over
1906. In commenting on these fig
ures the report says:
Aside from its intrinsic value, this
relatively new industry has an eco
monte 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-
livered, and in consequence orders 90
TO European houses that should come
to this country. The bureau has been
in 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
the extension of parcels post to for.
eign countries is discussed It is
claimed that this extension would be
to open markets now closed to Amer
lean husinpss men iOr lack of .rane-