Arizona republican., 1909-04-26
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS Of the United States With Out
 lying Territory THE GROWTH OF A DECADE
From a Commerce of $7O- 100000 Trade Has Grown Amounting to $150, ,000- OOO..What Alaska Alone Has Contributed.

l NdSHlHS tOH, ApTll ZO--l Tdue De-
 tween the United States and it's non
 contiguous territories will aggregate
 approximately s150,0OO,0O0 in the fis-
 cal year which ends with June next,
 against approximately s70.000,000 in | 1899, a decade earlier. For the eight
 months for which the bureau of sta tistics of the department of commerce and labor has complete figures the
 shipments of merchandise from the | United States to its noncontiguous
 territories-Alaska, Flaw ali. Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Guam. Mid
 way Islands. and Tutuiula-amounted
 to s43,500,000, and the shipments of
 merchandise from those territories to
 the United States amounted to s52.- l 500,0O0. These figures relate only to merchandise. The value of the na-
 tive gold shipped from Alaska to the
 United States in the period in ques- ton was s16.750,O00 or more than
 twice the purchase price of Alaska.
 The shipments of merchandise from
 the noncontiguous territories to the United States for the eight months ending with February, 1909. (s52. .500,- O00), show an increase of about |
 riod of 1908, and s5.5OO,OOO over the corresponding period of 1907. The
 merchandise shipped from the United States to the noncontiguous territories in the same period .s43, 500, ,00O) shows a decrease of about s5OO.000 as com papred with the corresponding months of 1908, but an increase of about s750,0O0 as compared with the cor
 responding months of 1907.
 This slight decrease in the ship ments to the noncontiguous territo- ries in 1909, as compared with 1908. is due in part at least to the fall in prices of cerain classes of articles sent to those territories. Prices of many manufactures have ranged somewhat lower in the eight months ending with February, 1909, than those of the corresponding periods of 1908 and 1907, and as a consequence this fall in prices has given lower total of values even in cases where the quantity shipped was greater. In manufactures of iron and steel, which form an important item in the ship
 ments to Alaska, prices are less than those of 1908 and 1907; in cotton manufactures, which form an impor- tant item in the shipments to Porto Rico Hawaii, and the Philippines, prices are also less than those of the immediately preceding years.
 The value of merchandise shipped from the United States to Alaska dur ing the period in question was s9,430,-' 452, against SI0.694, ,364 in the cores bonding months of the immediately preceding year. The value of the merchandise shipped from Alaska to- the United States in the same period was SIP 2I65,533, against S10,472,747 in the corresponding months of the pre- ceding year. The principle articles forming the s9.5OO.OOO worth of mer- chandise sent to Alaska in the period under consideration were: Iron and steel manufactures, s1,162.764 against S1,974, ,269 in the corresponding months of the preceding year; meat and dairy products, s1,50S,206, against $1,434,44S in the same months of last year; breadstuffs, s437,2 manufactures of wool. $45S,54S; manufactures of cot
 ton. S351,539; fruits and nuts. s316,
 l5s; leather and manufactures there of. $225,60S: mineral oils, S27O.125; spirits. wines and liquors, s504. 153; NeReIdDleS, SOt1.S0N' dhN HSON e'iiu manufactures thereof, $438,966. The sl2,o0O, ,o0O worth of merchandise ship ped from Alaska to the United States ineluded: Canned salmon. $9.659, 799; fish, other than salmon, $669,10 cop per ore, S405,00S; furs and fur skins, S4S5.414; and whalebone, $1SS,942 Of the S12,0O0, ,000 worth of merchandise coming from Alaska, $5,567,535 en- tered at the port of San Francisco, s5.O65,312 at Seattle, and $559,513 at Tacoma Of the merchandise sent to Alaska, $S,7F4,32S went out through the customs district of Puget Sourd. and s5O7,4S2 went out through San Francisco.
 Of the st1,4S0,149 worth of mer- chandise sent to the Hawaiian ls Hands in the eight months under con sideration, breadstuffs amounted to .s1.24O,5ss, against s1,070,974 in the corresponding months of the preced- ing year: cotton manufactures, $1,119,- TIT. against $SS4,435 in the cores bonding months of the preceding year; iron and steel manufactures, s1,e53,676, against $1,256,209 in the same months of the preceding year; meat and dairy products, $4S6,72O; mineral oil, sS42 1S3; spirits, wines and liquors, s377,6 and wood and manufactures thereof. s65O,6S0. Of this total. s7,25O,O00 worth went out of San Francisco, a little over $1,5OO,- 900 worth out of Puget Sound, and