The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-25
GRAND TOTAL Of
MANY BILLIONS
Annual Production of Manu-
features in United States
Reaches Enormous Sum.
CAREFUL ESTIMATES MADE
UNCERTAIN TRANSIT HURTS EX-
PORT TRADE.

Washington, Nov. 24-Fifteen bill
lions of dollars represent the value of
the annual production of manufactures
in The United States. After careful
estimates were made by experts, John
NJ. Carson, chief of the bureau OF man
ufactures, was able TO make this
statement in the annual report of the
operations of his bureau, made public
today. The figures do not represent
finished products entirely, but include
products in various stages of progress
Last year the aggregate value of do
nestle merchandise exported was ST.
S54,000,000, an increase OF nearly $685.
100000 over the preceding year. In this
classification manufactures ready for
consumption" are credited with $780,
100000 and the figures are generally ac-
cepted as the extent of the exports of
manufactures.
Foodstuffs Included.
The report of the bureau. however
groups this classification with those of
'foodstuffs partly or wholly manufac-
tured," and manufactures for further
use in manufacturing" the aggregate
exports Of which last year We're $685.
900, 600. and this amount added to man
ufactures ready for consumption, 8"
make the aggregate value of manufac-
lures exported in the year ended June
30. 81 800 900. 900. or more than IS per
cent of the entire exports of the year.
Special significance is attached to the
increase of nearly $4,000 900 in the eX-
ports of completed manufactures, in
view of the fact that the exports of
cotton cloth declined more than $21,-
600 600, this loss being entirely in the
cotton trade with China The popular
feeling aroused in that country growing
out of alleged outrages against Chi
nese residents in the United States, is
assigned as a contTibutory cause for
this decline.
Cotton Seed Industry.
The cotton seed products exports for
the year were more than $4,000, 600, an
Increase of SO, SOC, 900 over 1906. In COM
menting on these figures. the report
says.
aside from its intrinsic value, this
relatively new industry has an econom-
lc value and Importance to the country,
the beneficial results of which are espe-
cially felt in the several states in which
cotton is Indigenous and in which the
cotton seed industry is naturally To-
Gated
The success attending investigation
by experts sent abroad had led to the
adoption of the policy Of specializing
Investigations of trade conditions in
foreign markets. One of the obstacles
to an enlarged export trade is
the uncertainty of transit between
places of production and the seabdard.
Merchants in the orient especially COM
plain that calculation cannot be made
as TO when goods ordered IN the United
States will be delivered, and in conse-
quence orders go to European houses
that should come to those of this
country. The bureau has been in cor
srespondence with members of railway
and ocean steamship companies with a
view to securing more reliable and rap
i'd transit for merchandise destined to
foreign countries.
Parcels Post.
Demands made by business men for
the extension of the parcels post to for
eign countries, is discussed. 1t is
claimed that this extension would omen
markets now closed to American bust
ness men for lack of transportation ia
cilities, but which are open to- their
competitors who have advantages of
the parcels post system.