The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-11
The Volume Of Trade Through
Texas Port Shows Won
dertul Increase.
LEADS ALL GULF PORTS
During Ten Years from 1899 Export
Business Has Grown from S78..
100000 to Si69,500,00G.
Full Growth Not Shown.

Washington, Oct. 11.--The
growth in exports through gulf
ports from 100000 in 1899 to
$40, 100000 in 1909-an increase
of 112 per cent, while the Atlantic
ports were increasing but II per
cent in their eXports-has resulted
in many calls upon the bureau of
statistics of the department of COM
merce and labor for information as
to the articles forming this growth
and the countries to which these in
creased expectations were chiefly
sent. Figures compiled by the bu-
reau in response to those inquiries
show that the principal articles in
which the increase occurred are cot
ton, meats, lard, lald compounds.
flour, tobacco, mineral oil. cotton
seed oil, cotton seed oil cake, lum-
ber, phosphates, corn, rice and nay
al stores (rosn, turpentine, etc q.
While the increase III corn exports
through the gulf ports is less mark
ed than in certain other articles. the
lack of growth is due chiefly to a
general reduction in the exports of
that article from the United States
rather than to any reduction in the
share of the exports through the
gulf ports. In the distribution OF
these increased exports from he
gulf ports to the various parts of
the world, European countries were
the chief participants, though. in
| few articles there were marked In
creases in shipments to Argentina,
Cuba and Panama.
Galveston shows the largest In
crease in exports among the customs
districts under consideration. The
total value of exports from Calves
ton in the fiscal year 1899 was s7s,-
500, goo, and in 1909, S1S9 500, 900;
and even these figures do not show
the full growth because of the fact
that part of the area included with
in the Galveston district in 1893 has
recently been established as a separ-
ate customs district under the title
of Sabine, Texas, the exports OF that
/ new district in 1909, having been
I$17,500, 700, which should be con-
sidered with those of Galveston in
| an attempt to compare explorations
| in 1909 of the area within the Gal
weston district in 1899. This would
bring the exports in 1909 of the
area considered as the Galveston
district in 1899 up to $207, 100000,
as against $7S,500,000 in 1899. The
figures Of principal articles exported
! from Galveston show cotton, in 1899
S57,500,000 value, and in 1909
$161, 1,000,00U; while the cotton sent
| from Sabine district formerly a
part Of Galveston) was, in 1909, 81
| 100000, making the growth of the
area under consideration from S57,-
100000 value in 1899 to $16S, ,500,-
600 in 1909. Among the other arti-
cles showing an increase in exports
from the port of Galveston are cot
| ton seed oil cake, from $4, 4,500,O00
value In 1899 to $S,25O,000 In
| 1909; wheat flour. from less than
$500 900 in 1899 to over 100000
in 1909; and lard, from $4,000 In
1889 to $2,000,000 in 1909; while
wheat exports from Galveston show
fall from 100000 bushels in
1889 to 7,000,000 in 1909, but this
reduction is apparently accounted for
| in part at least, by the fact that
wheat exports from the country as
| a whole were, in 1909, but about
one-half as great as in 1899, the fig
lures for the whole country being, In
1889, 100000 bushels, and In
| 1909, 67,000,000 bushels. Corn eX-
ports from Galveston In 1909 were
100000 bushels, against $500
| 900 bushels in 1899, although the
corn exports from the country as q
whole were in 1909. but 36,000,000
bushels. against 174,000,000 In
1889, thus indicating that Calves
tons share In the total corn exports
Of the year 1909 was much greater
than it was a decade earlier.