Arizona republican., 1907-06-10

in the same month of 1906 and 26 cents
 per pound in the corresponding month
 of 1907. Class (combing wooD
 which was i9.S cents per pound Tn
 April 1897. was 29.I cents per pound in
 April. 1906. and 31.3 cents per pound
 in April 1907. Class carpet wool},
 which was Il.4 cents per pound in
 April 1897, was 13.3 cents per pound
 in April 1906.and 13.9 cents per pound
 in April 1907. Tin. in bars. blocks.and
 pigs. for use in manufacturing tin
 plate and for other purposes. averaged
 in April 1S97, 13 cents per pound; in
 April 1906. 33.6 cents. and in April
 1907. 407 cents. Leaf tobacco. suit
 able for wrappers. which averaged
 97.5 cents per pound in April 1897. was
 S1.11 per pound in April 1906. and sl.3o
 per pound in April 1907.
 In food stuffs the advance has not
 been as strongly marked, but occurs in several articles. In rice. the aver age import price per pound in April
 1897. was T.9 cents: in the same month
 of 1906. - cents. and in the cores
 bonding month of 1907, 3.1 cents per pound. Of tea, the average import price in April 1907. was s.7 cents per pound: in the same month of 1906. r. cents: and in the corresponding month of 1907, 15.S cents per pound. Sugar. quoted at an average import price of 2.1 cents per pound in April,
 1887, was 2.06 cents in April 1906. and POS cents in April 1907. showing a slight reduction in 1906 and 1907 as compared with 1897. Coffee also shows slight reduction. averaging 10.9 cents per pound in 1897. 9.5 cents in April. 1906. and cents per pound in April 1907. Cheese imported. on the other hand. shows an advance from an average of 13.7 cents per pound in April 1S97, to l7.2 cents in the same month in 1906, and 17.9 cents in the corresponding month in 1907. Mack erel. which shows an average of A cents per pound in April 1897. was 5.S cents in April 1906. and e cents pound in April 1907.
 Comparison of values for d single month. with those of another single month in some preceding years. is lia- ble to be. in some cases, misleading. and for that reason the bureau of sta tistics has also prepared a statement showing the annual average for the import price in certain of these arti- cles in each fiscal year for long term Of years, and an examination of this statement gives a further opportunity 10 determine whether the prices of ar ticles whose valuation is determined in the country whence exported tO'the United States have actually advanced An examination of this table of "annu- n Clfn equally striking advance in most of the articles named. Cotton cloth. un- bleached, for instance. averaged 70 cents per square yard in the fiscal year 1908 against 11:5 cents in the fiscal year 1906. Bleached cotton cloth averaged 12 cents per square yard in 1899 against 16.1 cents in 1906 Flax, per ton. averaged s201.Sl in 1896 against s266.62 in 1906. Hemp aver aged s121.06 per ton in 1899 against S110 in 1906. Manila hemp. per ton. | averaged $64.44 in 1898 against $lS7.9O l in 1906. Jute averaged s22.49 per ton 1 in 1896 and S62.05 per ton in 1906. | India rubber, crude. averaged 45I l cents per pound in 1896 against 7S | cents in 1906. Rice. per pound. aver | aged l 1-2 cents for the fiscal year ! 1896 against 2-1-2 cents in the fiscall year 1906. Pig tin averaged 12.9 cents | per pound in 1897 against 33.3 cents in | 1906. Clothing wool averaged F cents l per pOJHd in 1902 against A cents per l pound/in 1906: combing wool. IS cents | in 1902 against an average of 2S cents l in 1906, and carpet wool an average | of 9 cents per pound in 1902. against | an average of IA cents per pound in | 1906.
 How much this advance in prices of | the articles imported is responsible | for the great increase in the total value i, of our imDorts-an increase of more 1 than 100 per cent in 1907. as compared l with 1S99-cannot be accurately deter | mined: but the fact that prices per unit of quantity have in nearly all | cases advanced, and in some cases in- | creased from 50 to 100 per cent, sug- | gests that at least an appreciable part 1 of the growth in the figures of our | imports is due to advance in prices, e | condition which doubtless applies also | in greater or less degree to the in- | crease in total value of our exports.