Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Exports for Year Valued
at S175,0oo,oOO.
Increase in Past Decade About
S118,oO0,00O.
Interesting Figures Issued by the
Bureau Of Statistics.

| HStdl year winch ends with next month
| VIII aggregate approximately $1,5,00t
00G in value, against $57 200, 900 Il decade
! earlier and l6"C0,OOO, two decades
| earlier. Figures issued by the Bureau
Of Statatics ~ the Department OF Com
| mcrcc ana Labor show the value of
| lrD3 and steel manufactures exported in
| the ten months ending with April, 1907,
! at about $4,000, 900 and these figures
seem to justify the estimate OF $4,000,
U1U, Speaking in round terms, as the
| value of iron and steel exports for the
fiscal year 1901. In the fiscal year 1897
| the total value Of iron and steel manu-
features exported was only $57,o00,po
ana in 1851, decade earlier, the total
was . Httlc less than $lGu0o,c0o.
| This rapid growth has brought iron
and steel manufactures far in the lead
of AN other group of manufactures in
the export trade of the United States
| During th4 twcnty-y ear period from tho
beginning Of 1873 10 1898, wood manu-
| fa@turr@ CXTUrtcd amounted to $l13,000,-
, OoG, while iron ana steel manufactures
| Amounted "a Int @.e9, 900, 900. With 1855
! hC3als Il marked increase in the cX-
| portatiou q iron ana St""l manufac-
| lures, a,.d from the beginning of that
y
/ export; thereof amounted to $l.137, O10,-
| OUI, " lille those IF wood manufactures
| during .hc same period were valued at
$t,36 600. O0p, or less than half the value
/ OF iron and steel manufactures export
| ed. Cotton manufactures We're Il close
| second to iron and steel during the
| earlier period, but now stand fourth in
| the list Of great groups Of manufac-
| lures exported, iron and steel ranking
| first; copper, s, C0nd; wood manufac-
| lures third and cotton manufactures,
| fourth. For the nine months Of the
| fiscal year 1907 for which figures are
now available, manufactures of iron
| and steel exported aggregated 49,, 000,
| 00h; copper manufactures, $1d,000,0 0h;
| wood manufactures, $5G, 100000: and
| cotton manufactures, $4,000, 900. the fig
urcS for cotton manufactures being
| about $1J.00O,G coo below those for the
| corresponding period Of last year, while
| iron and steel, copper and wood manu-
| features show in each cas-" a marked
| increase over the corresponding months
| Of last year. Meantime, leather and
| manufactures thereof have outranked
| cotton goods. the value of leather and
| manufactures thereof exported in the
| nine months Of the fiscal year 1907
being $3i,250ho0, against $25,50O,00
| value of cotton manufactures exported.
| This rapid Growth in tho expectation
Of irtn ana steel manufactures is cspc-
| cillly interesting, in view Of the fact
! that finished manufactures form
| larger percentage Of the grand total in
| this group than is TIL" case in many
| ether rf the great groups nf articles
| ola:scd as manufactures ~ the Bureau
Of Statistics. In copper expectations,
| tho group ~ second rank, Il large pro-
| portion If til" value occurs in Il class
which has unlorg, re but a slight pro-
Gees Of maTufaetUre, name ". copper
III incots, bars and plates; and this is
! ;Ii.5p thu" NC wood manufactures, Of
! which lur;lCr. sawed timber ana
shocks form 4 larg" percentage of the
| tuta! exports. In Tie c"se Of leather,
ana manufactures thereof, sole leather
ana upper leather form moro than half
of tho total expectations. In tho case
| OF iron and steel, however. finished ar
| tirl,s form large s.la:a ~ the rapidly
growing total. Oi ht 2I3-,"5J,o90 worth
| If iron ana steel nInufac lures export
| ID in the min" months ending with
! March, 1874. nearly $780, 900 worth con-
| sisted If lni !! lDtiycs: nearly $685.
! 'mr. SOWING machines: $i.lb.h1H. type
! writers: over $6."p0,3"0. electrical ma
| thincry: ncnrly H7.r00n'n. m"tal-work
/ ing machinery; over $iT,o0p,no1. aisccl-
! llrcnus machinery not separately spec
| Ii-d; nearly $1,000 600, builders hard
Woo. including locks, hinges, saws.
| tools. etc; more than $6,oG0,0no steel
rails; AMI about $5.000,03o, structural
| iron and steel
The high grade manufactures nf iron
ana steel exported from the United
| States find a y ide distribution and arc
accepted in every part Of the world. OF
), the nearly E1,hno0e0 worth of locomo-
| tivcs exported during the nine months
! andcr consideration. Japan, Mexico, the
/ Central American States and Canada
took each more than $1,ooD,n00 worth,
while Cuba. Argentina, Brazil and Aus
/ tralia also purchased considerable
values. OF The $500, 900 worth Of type
writer's exported, the United Kingdom
| WAS by far the largest purchaser, talk
! ing more than One-fOUrth Of the total,
| while Germany ranked second; France
! third: ami Mexico fourth in the pur-
Chascs of this class of iron and steel
manufactures. or the nearly $4,000, 600
| worth Of SEWN" machines sent out Of
| ne country W Int nine ttipulnS uil-
dor consideration, more than s1,000000
worth went to the United Kingdom;
s71o,p worth q Germany; over $780,
! 90 worth to Mexico; and nearly $500,
! 003 worth To Autralia. OF the more
| than $4,000, 900 worth Of electrical ma
chncry exported. Canada was the
| largest purchaser, the exports thereto
| during the period under consideration
! having amounted to s1.500OO0, while
| those to Mexico. Japan and the United
| Kingdom. the next largest purchasers,
were valued at nearly 100000, each.
/, OF the nearly $11.000.O90 worth of build
ers' hardware exported in the nine
months ending with March last, Can
ada, the United Kingdom and Austria
liza were the largest purchasers, the
total to Canada being nearly $2,000,000:
| that to the United Kingdom $1.5G0.600;
and to Australia $t250,00O; while $780,,
| 900 worth went to Germany; and more
! than y5nG. 000 worth to Argentina. Of