Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-20
Increase in Imports Met by
Advance on Other Side
of Trade
FooDsTuFFs NOT AFFECTED.
Increase is Attributed by Census
Bureau to Advance in Prices of Man.
ufactured Articles and Raw Materials
Food Exports Fall off-ccnsus
Bureau Figures.

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| in prices. which is to considerable
extent responsible for the large In
crease In the total value on imports IN
recent years, is apparently also respon
sible in some degree for the increased
figures of the value OF exports.
An analysis recently made by the
bureau OF statistics OF the Imports OF
| 1907 compared with those OF 1898
showed marked advances in prices Of
imported articles and that this advance
in prices per unit Of quantity Is largely
responsible for the increase OF over
100 per cent In the total value OF I'M
ports into the United States since
1899.
A like analysis of the exports just
completed by the bureau shows also a
marked advance in prices Of the great
articles forming the export trade, and
indicates that, while there have been
material Increases in quantities EXPORT
ed. the growth Of domestic exports
from s1,204 O000 900 in 1899 10 sl,S5a.-
100000 in 1907 is due in no lnconslder-
able degree to advance In price OK
the articles forming that trade.
While the detailed statement. pre-
pared by the bureau shows the ad-
vance In prices per unit OF quantity
in hundreds Of articles exported, 1t
has selected from this list forty prin-
cipal articles, whose value aggregates
about two thirds of the total exports,
and by stating the increase in both
quantity and value of each article
shows to what extent the increased
valuation in the exports of 1907 is due
to increased quantities, or to what ex-
tent higher prices have caused the ad-
vance in stated value,
OF the forty articles which it thus
includes in it's analysis of exports in
attempting to determine to what eX-
tent advance of prices per unit OF guam
tity is responsible for the increased
value of expectations, twelve are food
stuffs--wheat, corn. -four, cattle. fresh
beef. bacon. hams. pork, lard, cotton-
seed meal. cottonseed Oil. and oleo OIL.
This small group of dozen articles
of food products shows an aggregate
of about 100000 in the exports OF
1907 Four shows an advance OF put
per cent in price per unit OF guam
tity. cattle 4.3 per cent wheat OIL per
cent. fresh beef IL per cent. hams 22.s
per cent. corn 34.1 per cent, oeo OIL
3i.4 per cent. canned pork 3a6 per
cent. bacon 49, per cent. coitonseed
meal Ar per cent. lard Sc pes cent,
and cottonseed oil $50 per cent.
facturers' materials, both in the crude
state and partially manufactured Tor
further use in manufacturing The ar
ticles selected aggregatng over S1oV,-
100000 in value and including copper
in pigs or bars, lumber. tobacco, TIM
Der COAL rosin. paratfine. haXseed,
and crude mineral Gil.
Copper, Of which the value exported
in 1907 was $S9.000.000, shows an ad-
vance of 5S5 per cent in value per
pound. Lumber, of which the exports
amounted to s40,O0O.O0O. shows an adj
vance of 5S.4 per cent; sawed tim
Der. S13.OO0,0OO in value, shows an adj
vance of 1929 per cent; rosin. amount
ing to over s11.000,000, shows an ad-
vance of 202.7i per cent; while btu
minous coal shows an advance OF 24.3
per cent, anthracite coal 1873 per cent
paralfine 25.6 per cent, f1aXseed 26.6 per
cent. crude mineral oil 13 per cent, and
phosphates 3.2 per cent increase in
price per unit of quantity in 1907 over
1899.
The classes of articles which show
any considerable degree of Increase in
qualities exported are chiefly msnufac-
lures or article for use in manufactur-
ing. while foodstuffs show in many
cases a marked reduction in quantity
exported and comparatively little
change in price.
Wheat shows a decline of more than
60, 100000 bushels. flour nearly 3.O00-
600 barrels, lard about S4..000.o00
pounds. bacon over 20O.000,0O0 pounds.
beef about 100000 pounds. hams
about 100000 pounds and cotton
seed oil nearly 100000 pounds.
In manufacturers material whether
crude or partially manufactured prac
tically every item shows a marked in
crease.
Boots and shoes show an advance
from less than 100000 pairs tc' nearly
600. 600 wire from 215,000,000 pounds
TO 361. 100000. structural iron and
steel from $4,000 tons to 10000 tons,
and locomotives fro SIT in 1899 to
}72 in 1907, while, as already indi-
Gated the advance in price per unit
IF quality averaged greater in both
materials and finished
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