Arizona republican., 1907-01-14

reduction of 26 per cent. In the case of Japanese goods. the number Os
 pieces of these classes imported was for the nine months Of 1905 but 51,- O37 and in the corresponding months of l9GC but 97,c39-so small total as to have no perceptible effect. of course upon the receipts from other countries
 These figures Of imports at Shany-
 hai do not of course include all of the cotton goods of these principal classes imported into China: but the fact above alluded to. that the other ports include in their figures of imports the foreign merchandise brought from other ports of China makes it inn possible to obtain from the quarterly statements in question the net figure of cOttOns imported into China as whole, though the fact that about two thirds of the general imports of China enter at Shanghai suggests that the above figures may be accepted as fair measure of conditions in the cot ton piece goods trade of China in 1906 compared with 1905.
 Another method. however of determ- ming whether the United Kingdom. our chief rival in the cotton trade of China, is also experiencing a reduction in it's shipments of cotton goods to China, is available by an examination of f-the export statements of the United Kingdom, which have reached the bu- reau of statistics for the ten months ending with october. They show that the number of yards of gray or un- bleached piece goods shipped to China in the ten months of 1905 was 3I1.- 995, 300. and in the ten months of 1906, ZIG, 6,5S4, 100: of bIeached piece goods, in the ten months of 1905. 1Ss, ,S32. 500, and in the corresponding months of 1906. 154.546.10O; and of dyed piece goods, in the ten months of 1905, 135. .S95. 100, and in the same months of 1906, l40,3lQ,- 300. Thus the total quantity of piece goods exported from the United King dom to China in the ten months per iod decreased from 636,723 800 yards in 1905 to 51l.459,100 yards in 1906. In values the fall shown by the figures Of the United Kingdom is not so great as that shown by the figures of the Unit ed States. the value of British exports of cottons to China in the ten months ending with october, 1905, being, in o the corresponding months of 1906. 36 millions; while in the case of the Unit ed States the figures for the eleven months ending with October. 1905. were. in round terms. 31 millions, and in the same months of 1906. r millions.
 Kerosene oil for lighting is the sec Ond article in importance in our eX- port trade with China, and this also shows a reduction in our own figures from 7I1A million gallons in the eleven months ending November. 1905, to 4325 millions in the corresponding months or 1906 The Chinese figures show for the nine months a fall from 39 million gallons of American kerosene enter ing Shanghai in 1905 to g million gal Ions in 1906. Russian oil entering Shanghai. in the nine months of 1905 was 12h million gallons. and in 1906 none. Of Sumatra kerosene imported into Shanghai the total for the nine months ending with September. 1905, was million gallons. and for the cor responding period of 1906 a little less than millions. Borneo oil is for the first time making its appearance fin the trade of China. and appears to be responsible in some degree at least, for the reduction in imports of American oil. since the quantity of Borneo oil imported at Shanghai in the nine months of 1906 was 9K million gallons, against 2Is millions i'm the correspond ing months of 1905 and nothing in pre- vious years.