Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-09
Omitted States Share Is
! Steadily Growing
While Imports from Great
| Britain Have Decreased.
Imports from This Country SO Per
: Cent. Of Total Value.

Z Washington, June S.-Merchandise
from the United States forms stead
fly increasing share of the imports OF
Canada. In 1869 merchandise from the
United States formed 34.03 per cent. of
the imports of Canada; in 1874, 53.47
per cent; in 1889, 1885 per cent; in
1899 1924 per cent; and in 1909 (fiscal
year ending March 81. 60.4 per cent.
Meantime the share OF her imports
drawn from Great Britain has steadily
declined, having been in 1869, 56.2 per
CENT; in 1879. 1884 per cent; in 1889,
1913 per cent; in 1899. 2412 per cent;
and in 1909. % 60 Fer cent.
These figures are drawn from the
Canadian official publications just re-
ceived by the Bureau of Statistics of the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
They represent the latest possible pic
ture of Canada's trade. since her fiscal
year now ends with the month of
March, and the publications just re-
ccived at the bureau cover the month of
March, 1909 and the fiscal year ending
with that month.
I Manufactures form naturally a large
share of the merchandise drawn from
The United States by the people of Can
two. countries are to large extent
similar and the manufacturing indus
TRY Of the United States now exceeds in
total output any country in the world.
The share which manufacturers form
eof the merchandise imported into Can
ada from the United States has been
gin recent years more than one-half OF
sthe total, being in 1905 practically So
r,I
1907 the latest year for which statistics
in this detail are available, 53.5 per
scent The total value of Canadian i'm
ports from the United States in the
fiscal wear 1908 was $l52 600, 900, and of
this total $S90oo,oo0 We're manufac-
lures; in 1905, 69,ooo0o0. of which
$l0000O,U1O we're manufactures; and in
the fiscal year 1907 ca nine months pc
Rod. due to change in the termination
of the fiscal Year, $119.0o0,o00, of which
$50. 600 600 were manufactures. Mean
time the manufactures imported from
Great Britain were, in 1908. S5O,oN,0OO;
in 1906 S51, 00n, 600: and in 1907, $4,000,
600
The principal articles imported from
the United States, stated by great
groups lin tn" fiscal year 1907, the Ia
test for watch detailed statistics are
availabie), we're: Manufactures $SS, 500
00p, mineral produce $21 100000, aGricul
tural produce $1S.750.0oo, forest produce
$3.50, 900. fishery produce $500,000 and
miscellaneous produce $12,750,0o0
OF tho So? 0G0 600 worth of articles
classed as manufactures, the principal
articles enumerated are: Manufactures
of iron and steel, $33500,0 900; leather and
manufactures of, $2,0oa.000; paper and
manufactures of, $l.75o00o; copper and
manufactures Of, $1,000 900; drugs. dyes,
chemicals and medicines. $3,15o,O00;
electrical apparatus. s., 33S :3a:3; binder
Irvine, $1.5D00o0; books and other print
ed matter, $.75o.o0j: brass and manu-
features Of. $l,5to.oo0; coke $1,o06,o0o;
metal and manufactures of $L750,o00.
TN and manufactures of $1,0O0,OoD;
! wood and manufactures of $1,250,o0o:
! and carriages cars. etc, $1,000. 900
The principal articles forming the
group of mineral produce valued at
$2l,000.00o. are: Anthracite coal. $500,
600; I bituminous coal. T,5o0,00o; and
ores of metal. $l,33333,@@ 33
The principal articles forming the
group agricultural produce. of which
lHe grand totdl Is AlS,lJO,UUU, dI'E.
Corr. $4,000, oOo faxsced. $3333,333.
green fruits. $2.333.333; unmanufac-
! tured tobacco. $2,75o0oo; dried fruits,
$1.250,000; and bananas. $750.000.
The principal items of the group
animals and their produce, which is
valued at $S,500.000. are: Horses. ST.
100000 value; fur skins. not dressed.
$2,000.000. hides and skins. raw. ST.
100000: and meats, chiefly hog pro-
duce. 81 .500.000
The principal articles forming the
group forest produce, which totals SIS
100000. are: Oak lumber. 81 ,333.333
pitch pine. $l.250.000; boards. plank.s
and deals. $1.000.000: logs and round
manufactured timber. 100000; and
fence posts, S250,O00
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