Arizona republican., 1909-02-15
'CUR|OS|T|ES
 OF COMMERCE Sources of Supply of Many
 Things We Need UNSUSPECTED IMPORTS Lemonade and Soda Water Brought From Great Brit ain--Eggs Constitute an Inn portant Item in the Import Trade, Also Copper.
UNsUsPEcTED IMPORTS

Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.-Curi-
 osities of commerce are illustrated by a somewhat unattractive looking vol
 ume just issued by the bureau of
 statistics of the department of com
 merce and labor, entitled Imports of
 Merchandise into the United States
 by Articles and Countries during the years ending June 90, 19O4-190S." The purpose of this volume is to present exact information as to the sources of supply of the principal articles imported into the United States To this end tables are presented show ing in each case all of the countries from which the article in question is drawn and the value thereof 'from each country in each year during the five-year period under consideration.
 These tables when carefully studied present some interesting facts with reference to our import trade. For instance, of the 97,000,000 pounds macaroni and similar preparations imported in 1908 at a value of $4,- 100000, 92,O00,000 pounds came from Italy, 4,50O,000 pounds from France, and 7O7, ,O0O pounds from Japan. Au- tomobiles also form an interesting record, the value of imports amount ing to s4,000,O00 in 1907, but falling to S2,5OO, 900 in 1908. Of this S2,50O0,- 900 worth imported in 1908, s1,750,00 was from France $333,S33 worth from Italy. and $200,000 worth from the United Kingdom.
 One would scarcely expect that in this land of soda fountains the quan- tity of soda water imported would be of sufficient importance to form an appreciable record, yet the quantity imported in 1908 under the title of Lemonade. soda water and other sim liar beverages" was more than 5O0,- 900 pint bottles, valued at s35,41k, of which $34.514 worth came from the United Kingdom. In addition to this there were imported in the same year 14,000,000 quarts of mineral waters, valued at more than $1,000,000 This came chiefly from France and Ger many, the value of the mineral water from Germany in 1908 being $504, ,730 and from France s426,056.
 Cocoa is evidently growing in fla vOr with the people of the United States, the value of this article i'm ported in 1908 being S14,250, 900, against ss,75O.OOO in 1904. It comes chiefly from South America and the British West Indies-S4 ,5OO,OOO worth from the British West Indies, in 1908, s3,OOO,OOO worth from Brazil, s1,25O,OOO worth from Portugal, a little less 9 and about $1,500,000 worth from Ec- uador
 Of the s67.OOO.OOO worth of coffee imported in 1908. $4S,OOO,OOO worth came from Brazil, nearly (s5.00O,0O worth from Venezuela, S3,333, 900 worth from Guatemala, and practi- cally S4,OOO.oOO worth from Colombia. The quantity imported in 1908 was but S9O.OOO,OO0 pounds, against 9S5,- 000, ,00O pounds in 1908 and 1,04S,00O,- 900 pounds in 1905; the last mentioned year being the only one in the history of the country in which the importa- tiOns of coffee amounted to as much as 100000 pounds.
 One would scarcely expect that the United States would be a large i'm porter of. copper products, as she produces more than one-half of the copper of the world; but the publica- tion under review shows that there were 5O,O00,00O pounds of copper ore, 45,OOO,OO0 pounds of copper pigs, bars, ingots, etc, and s1OO,OOO worth of other manufacturing copper. This ore came chiefly from Mexico, Can ada, Newfoundland, Chile, Peru and a comparatively small quantity, about :, 3,000,000 pounds, from Germany. Of the 145,OO0,0OO pounds of copper pigs, bars, ingots, etc, imported last year, 4S,000,000 pounds came from Mexico, 30,O0O,000 pounds from Canada, 21,- 000,000 pounds from Peru, 4,500,000 pounds from Germany, 4,5O0,000 pounds from Spain and 4,500,000 pounds from the United Kingdom. Even from far away Japan there came nearly 6,00O,000 pounds, valued at over S1,00O,000; from Australia, still farther distant, 21,000,000 pounds, valued at about S3,750.000; while French Oceania, Portuguese, Africa, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba, San Sal vador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Qua and Panama also contributed small quantities. This large impory tation of copper in ore and pigs is due to the superior facilities of the United States for smelting and refin- ing, the ore coming in to be smelted, and the pig copper to be refined and the precious metals extracted there from
 One would not expect to see any quantity of raw cotton imported when this country produces three-fourths of the cotton of the world; yet the value of the cotton