Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-25
REPORT OF MANUFACTURES
FACTS PRESENTED BY MAI.
JOHN M. CARSON.
What the Chief Of Bureau in Depart.
ment Of Commerce and Labor
Has to Say.

Fifteen billion dollars a year is the
value put Upon the manufacturing in
dustries of the country in the report Of
Maj. John M. Carson, chief Of the bureau
of manufactures of the Department Of
Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year
19O6-1907. These figures do not repre-
sent products that have been entirely
finished, but include those still in process
Of completion.
Domestic merchandise exported last
year amounted to $1,s54, OOO, 900, an in
crease of $136. 100000 over the preceding
year. In this classification ''manufact-
ures ready for consumption are credited
with $4s0,000,O 600, and these figures are
generally accepted as the extent Of the
exports of manufactures.
The Aggregate Value Of Exports.
The report Of the bureau. however,
groups this classification with those Of
''foodstuffs partly or wholly manufact-
ured" and manufactures for further use
in manufacturing, the aggregate ex-
ports of which last year were seo6, OOO, 600,
and this amount, added to manufactures
ready for consumption makes the ag-
gregate value of manufactures exported
in the year $1.0S6, 0O0, 900, or more than IS
per cent of the entire exports for that
year.
Special significance is attached to the
increase of nearly $20,O0O0c0 in the ex-
of the fact that the exports Of cotton
cloths declined more than $21, ZOO, 600 this
loss being entirely in the cotton trade
| with China.
The relative insignifcance of the ex-
ports Of cotton piece goods by the United
States, compared with Great Britain, is
shown by contrasting official figures of
the two countries. The value Of cotton
yarns and fabrics shipped by the United
Kingdom in the calendar year 1905 was
| S4s4 100000; while the entire shipments
from the United States for that year were
about $43,0O0,O00. To Latin-American
countries Great Britain shipped cotton
fabrics to the value of nearly $49, 0OO, 900
| In the calendar year 1905, while the ship
| ments to those countries from the United
States for the year ended June 80 were
| less than S. 5OO,OOO
The cotton-seed product industry has
| been established within the last forty
years. and now represents an invested
! capital of 100000, 900. The exports for the
year were upward Of $40, 500 600. an in
crease of $9,5O0,OO0 over the fiscal year
| 1906.
Agents Sent to Europe.
| Special agents were sent by the bureat
| last year to Europe, Australia, South
Africa, Egypt, Asia Minor, India and the
orient. OF these. three were experts IL
cotton products, two in fabrics, one II
cotton seed and one In leather and boot.
and shoes. The success attending in
vestfgation by experts has led to the
adoption of the policy of specializing In
vestigations of trade conditions in for
eign markets. Valuable work was done
by some of the agents upon returning tt
| ho Trff o1 foe 10 fad in, Vic
| iting industrial centers. comforting with
manufacturers and exhibiting samples o.
various manufactures made in western
Europe and sold in various countries, es
| pecially in the far east
! 1t is pointed out that one of the OBJ
| stacles to the enlargement of export trade
is the uncertainty of transit between
places of production and the seaboard
| Merchants in the orient complain tina
calculation cannot be made as to wher
be delivered, and, in consequence, order,
go to European houses that should come
to those of this country.
More Rapid Transit.
The bureau has been in CORE spondence
with managers Of railway and ocear
steamship companies, with a view to Sc
curing more reliable and rapid transit fol
merchandise destined to foreign countrie S
| what Is neeueo is system by Whlcf
carloads of merchandise consigned t.
| foreign countries, when started shall bt
kept moving continuously toward destina
ton It is pointed out that this should
not be difficult of accomplishment witt
several through competing trunk railway
lines between the Atlantic and Pacific
| oceans.
| It is also stated that a movement Is ir
contemplation WHERE by the assistance anc
cooperation of commercial and industrial
organizations will be secured with the
| Department of Commerce and Labor. L
| is in furtherance Of this movement thai
a conference has been called by Secretar,
| Straus of business men, to confer witt