Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-13
MILLIONS FOR TOYS
VAST SUM INVESTED IN PLAY.
 THINGS FOR THE CHILDREN.
Statistics Complied at Washington Show s5c,ooc, 900 Worth weresim- ported and s5,oco. eco in Ex
 ports Tn the Last Decade.

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 Fifty million dollars worth of toys have been imported into the United States in the last decade and $5,000,- 900 worth exported in the same time, according to a report from Washing ton. The high water mark in the ex- port o; this class of American manu. factures was reached in the fiscal year just ended, the total value of toys ex- ported exceeding for the first time Si,- 100000. On the import side the high water mark was reached nj 1908, when the value of toys imported was ST. 250,000, dropping, to about S5,000,000 in 1909. ..4
 Despite the fact that the manufac- turers of the United States have in- creased their investments of capital in toy-makiug from less than $1 .000,- 900 in 1880 to s4.750.00O in 1905, and increased the value of their output of toys from s1,50O,O0O' in 1880 to s5,5oO,- 1. 900 in 1905,s the importations of this class of merchandise have grown steadily meantime.
 To be sure. the figures of the fiscal year 1909 are slightly below those of 1908, the record year, but this is part of the general reduction in imports of manufactures which characterizes the record of the fiscal year 1909, and cannot be looked upon as a permanent | depression in this line of importation, since the monthly figures in the clos | ing part of the year 1909 showed larg. CT totals than the corresponding months of 1908, thus indicating a re, yival in the imports of toys.
 The toy importations into the Unit, ed States, as shown by the reports of the bureau of statistics of the depart ! Elent of commerce and labor, have, as 1 already indicated; aggregated in round | terms $50,0O0,000 in the last decade Under the general title Toys" tEe bureau of statistics reports imports valued at s4.S69,O9 in the fiscal year 1909, s7.2O6.423 worth in the year 1908 ] S6.993,561 worth in 1907 and S5, | SS7, ,S63 worth in 1906 In 1904 the total was in round terms S5.O00 00C worth, in 1903, s4.25O,O00, in 1902 S4, 100000, in 1901, sS,750, 900, and in 19O( about S3,000,00O worth, making the l aggregate for the decade approximate ly $5O,000,OO0 value
 l Meantime, toy manufactures in the United States apparently amounted tt | about an equal sum, or an average ot about S5,000,000 a year, since the cen sus record shows the product of 1S0i at $5,577, ,693, and that of 1900 at s4, ], 024.999. This would indicate that tho toys supplied to the people of tn, l United States during the decade have l aggregated about s10O, GOO, stated in the valuation of the importers ani home manufacturers. and not in thu prices at which sold to consumers. o this approximately, however, ther, was exported during the decade abou S5.OO0,OOO worth.
 The trade in toys, both as to i'm ports and exports, is largely develop Inent of the last decade. The tota value of toys imported in 1899, dec I ade ago, was but S2,250. .O0O; in 1909 i as already indisated, reached approxi mately S3,0O0.O00, then slowly, bu steadily increased, passing the s4,000 GOO mark in 1902, the S5,0OO,000 mar in 1906, the S6,OOO,0OO line in 1907 an, the S7,O00,O00 line in 1908, but droT ping in 1909. importations Of manufac lures, to little less than S5,00O, ,00C but with an upward movement agail in the closing months of the year |
 June, 1909, for example, the value o toys imported was S544,342, agains
 S524,376 in the corresponding mont of the preceding year, indicating tha the record for the fiscal year 191 will probably exceed that of 1909 an
 may equal that of the high recon
 year, 190S Meantime the exportatio
 of toys, which amounted to but $500
 600 in 1900, passed the s30O,000 line i
 1904, the $590,00O line in 1908, an
 passed the $1 100000 line in 1909, tk
 total for that year being s1,098,1S7.
 Germany is the worlds leading pul
 veyor of toys, at least by far the lari
 est source of supply for the Unite
 States and presumably larger man,
 facturer than any other country. SOI
 neberg alone, 1t is said, producing al nually some 24,OOO,O articles. repr, senting about S4,000,00O value, whil , Nuremberg and other cities of Gel ; many are also large producers in thi
 line
 The value of toys imported into tn United States from Germany in 19G
 the high record year. was s6,50O,0O - out of a total of s7,250,000 importe b in that year. The largest value (
 toys imported from any other countr
 in that year was:-France, S1S0,472
 Austria-Hungary, s179,41S; Japa1 s177,72O; Belgium, sjI,551, and th
 United Kingdom. S57,725.