Arizona republican., 1909-07-19
BUT DECREASE IN VALUE
Estimates By the Bureau of Statistics on the Fig ures For Eleven Months of the Fiscal Year-The Kinds of Imports.

Washington. July lS.--Manufac- turers' materials imported in the fiscal year just ended seem likely to exceed in quantity those of any earlier fiscal year. Measured by values alone the figures of the year will fall nearly 100 million dollars below those of 1907; but the quan- tity imported of nearly all important materials for manufacturing exceeds, in the fiscal year 1909, that of any earlier fiscal year.
 While this statement regarding the quantity of materials imported in the fiscal year 1909 is based upon only eleven months completed fig ures, the record of the bureau of statistics, of the department of com mcrce and labor, is now sufficiently complete to give assurance that of the principal materials imported for manufacturing nearly all win show larger quantities brought into the United States in the fiscal year 1909 than in any earlier year.
 The principal articles imported for use in manufacturing are silk, cot ton. wool, vegetable fibers, tobacco, india rubber, hides and skins, cop u,R tin and lumber. These ten q es represent more than one-half of ,he total value of manufacturers materials imported and the quantity brought in in the year just ended is in nearly all cases greater than. in any preceding year, though in many instances in which the quantities have increased the values are less than those of two years ago, owing to the fact that prices per unit of quantity are in 1909 materially less than in 1907.
 X careful examination of the quan- titles of these principal manufac- turers' materials brought into the country in the eleven months of the fiscal year 1909, for which the fig ures are now available justifies the above statement that the quantity of manufacturers materials imported in the fiscal year ending with June, 1909. exceeds that of any previous fiscal year.
 The principal manufacturers ma terials imported areI as already in- dicated silk, cotton, wool, vegetable fibers. tobacco, india rubber, hides and skins. copper tin, and lumber, and a careful examination of the i'm port record of these principal articles one by one is interesting as showing the quantities brought in in the year just ended, as an indication of the activities of the manufacturing in dustries at the present time and a comparison of these figures with those of earlier years.
 Raw silk-The quantity imported in the eleven months ending with May was 21,S46,413 pounds, and should the imports for June equal those of May Q,S91 300 poundds) the total for the year would be over B. O0O 900 pounds, while the largest quantity imported in any earlier fis- cal year was 17,S12,133 pounds in 1905. an increase, therefore, of ap- proximately 90 per cent in quantity .i,,iJ sed in 1909 over the highest earlier record, though the value, stlH basing the estimate for June upon that of May, will aggregate about s7gOOO 900. while the highest figure for any earlier year was StO,OOo,VUV in 1907, that of 1905 being S59,oOO'OoV'
 Raw wool.-The quantity of raw wool imported in the eleven months ending with May was 263,5OO,OOO pounds, and should the total for June equal that of May (30,OOOOOO pounds) the grand total for the 1ull year would be 6,50e,00O pounds, larger total than in any earlier flscaI year except 1897, when unusually large importations were made Tn view of pending tariff changes. The value, however, still basing the tlg- ures upon the known value for the eleven months and the June estl- mate based upon May figures Will approximate $45,OOO 900 against $53,- OOO.OOO in 1897.
 Vegetable fibers-Under this head are included flax, hemp, jute, Manil- Ia hemp, sisal istle or Tempico fiber. and other unenumerated fibers of this character. The quantity i'm ported in the full fiscal year 1909, a assuming that the June figures will he approximately equal to those or May. will aggregate 34S, 900 tons against 316,OOO in 1904, the highest record in earlier years, though the value will aggregate but about S3O,- 900 900. against more than $42,OO0,00O in the fiscal year 1907, when the quantity was materially less than in 1909
 TobaccO-ImpOrtatio of tobacco are divided into two great groups thg L suitable for cigar wrappers and V Bother leaf tobacco. While the Gaantity suitable for cigar wrappers
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