Arizona republican., 1909-05-10

s325. 100000 in the preceding twelve months; and exports, $2OO, O,5OO, ,OOO, against S222, 100000 in the preceding twelve months.
 France and Italy show increases on both the import and export sides. The imports into France in the two months ending with February, 1909, were quot ed at s216,500.000. against $203, 800, 900 in the corresponding months of the preceding year; exports, $167 ,000, 900, against $145, ,000,0 ,000 in the correspond ing months of the preceding year Italy, for the month of January, 1909, shows imports s51O00,0OG, against s43,O0O, 900 in January. 1908; and exports, $zS, ,0O0,- 900, against s26,50O,OO0 in January, 1908.
 >This fall in the value of imports and exports of the principal countries of the world is probably due in part to lower prices of the principal articles forming commerce. While it cannot, of course, be said that 1909 prices are lower in every article than those of 1908. the figures of the bureau of sta tistics indicate lower prices in foreign countries in many of the principal ar
 
 and also a fall in price of certain i'm portant articles of our own export trade The tea imports of the United States, for example. of which the av- craze value in the countries whence imported was reported by the bureau in March, 1908, at l7.7 cents per pound. and in March, 1909, at I4.7 cents; cof- fee, in March, 1908, was valued at 8 cents per pound, and in March, 1909, at 7.9 cents per pound; rice, in March. 1908, at 2.9 cents per pound. and in March, 1909, at 26 cents per pound: sugar. not above No. 16, Dutch stand ard, in March, 1908, at 232 cents per pound. and in March, 1909, 2.23 cents per pound; potatoes. in March, 190S at 72.9 cents per bushel, and in March, 1909. at 419 cents; cotton cloths, bleached, in March, 1908, at 15.5 cents per yard, and in March, 1909, at IA cents; cotton cloths, unbleached, in March, 1908. at 12.7 cents per yard, and in March, 1909, at He cents; hope in March, 1908, at 23.5 cents per pound. and in March, 1909. at 1S.5 cents; raw cotton (chiefly Egyptian) in March, 1908. at 21.4 cents per pound, and in 4hdINLt lSVSS dN l0.i cents, Uldnlla hemp in March, 1908, at s144.57 per ton, and in March. 1909, at s119.1S; jute and jute butts in March, 1908, at S47.04 per ton. and in March. 1909, at s44S5; sisal grass in March. 1908. at $13210 per ton, and in March. 1909, at s106.2; goatskins in March, 1908. at 26.4 cents per pound, and in March, 1909, at PA cents; raw silk in March. 1908, at S3.6I per pound, and in March, 1909. at $3.53; and clothing wool in March, 1908, at 24.3 cents per pound, and Tn March, 1909, at 21.1 cents per pound, these prices being in all cases those of the wholesale markets of the countries whence the articles were imported
 On the export side, among the prin- cipal articles of export from the United States raw cotton shows a drop from II cents per pound in March. 1908. to 9.5 cents per pound in March, 1909; steel rails dropped from $32.SS per ton l in March, 1908. to s2S.42 in March, | 1909; pigiron dropped from s1S29 per | ton in March, 1908, to s15.60 in March, | 1909; cotton cloth, unbleached, from | - cents per yard in March, 1908, to | 5.Ss cents in March, 1909; canned l salmon from 9.6 cents in March, 1908, | to S.2 cents in March. 1909; rosin from | s4.04 per barrel in March. 1908. to s3.9O | in March, 1909; turpentine from 53.S | cents per gallon in March, 1908, to 42 | cents per gallon in March, 1909; crude l mineral oil from 5.4 cents per gallon in | March, 1908, to 39 cents in March, l 1909; refined Illuminating oil from 7.1 | cents in March, 1908, to 6.5 cents in | March, 1909.