Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-09-15
ALL SHOW INCREASE
MANUFACTURERS MATERIALS
COME IN IN QUANTITIES.
Proof of Beneficial Working of the
Payne Tariff Law-Prosperity
for the Worker Insured
Under Its Operation.

Manufacturers materials imported
since the enactment of the Payne
tariff law have exceeded in quantity
those of any corresponding period in
tne history of the country. Numer-
Gus calls upon the bureau of statis-
tics of the department of commerce
and labor for information regarding
imports, and especially those for the
use of the manufacturers, have led
that bureau to compile a table show
ing the imports of principal manu-
facturers' materials during the eleven
months operation of the Payne law
for which figures are now available.
The articles which the bureau has
considered in it's statement of prin-
cipal manufacturers materials i'm
ported are: Hides and skins, India
rubber, lumber, wood pulp, tin, cop
per, iron ore, tobacco, wool, cotton,
silk, fibers and chemicals. In prac-
tically all these articles the quantity
imported in the eleven months, Au-
gust l, 1909. to June 80, 1910, all of
which was under the Payne law ex-
cept the first five days of August,
was larger than in any corresponding
period in the history of the import
trade. In four classes, wool, cotton,
silk and fibers, the quantities are
slightly less than in the Immediately
preceding year, due, in most cases, to
abnormaly large imports in 1909, re-
sulting from unusually low prices,
but the total in 1910 is, even in these
cases, far above the average of the
five years Immediately preceding
1909. OF hides and skins, the imports
In the eleven months in question
were 551 100000 pounds, against 410,-
100000 in 1909, the highest record in
any earlier year of India rubber, 93,-
100000 pounds, against the high rec
ord of 3S,750,000 in 1909; of boards
and planks, 950,500000 feet, against
60,5O0,000 in the high record year,
1906; of wood pulp, 791 900, 900 pounds.
against 575,000,000 in 1903; of tin, 94,-
100000 pounds, against the high rec
ord of 100000 in 1907; of copper,
pigs and bars. 227,5OO,O0O pounds,
against the high record of 200 100000
in 1909; of copper ore, $50 100000
against 746,0O0,O0O in 1909; of iron
ore. 1,S49,OOO,OOO pounds, against g.
379,000,000 in 1902; and of leaf tobac-
CO, 43,500,O00 pounds, against 3S,000.-
600 in 1909. Wool imports in the
eleven months under consideration
amounted to 25O,O0O,O0O pounds.
against 257, 100000 in 1909 exceeded
only by those of 1897. the final year of
the operation of the Wilson law, un-
der which wool was imported free OF
duty. Silk imports aggregated 49,
100000 pounds, exceeded only by those
OF 1909, when unusually large quanti-
ties were brought in, presumably due
to low prices. Chemicals, as a whole.
show for the eleven months a total of
$4,000, 600. against S76.000, 900 in 1907
crude materials for use in manufac-
turing S530,750.000, against $447, $780,
600 in 1907; and manufactures for fur.
ther use in manufacturing, 1865, $780,
900, against 1852 .333, 900 in the former
high record year. 1907.
The table which follows shows the
quantity of the principal manufac-
turers' materials imported in the
eleven months, from August 1. 1909,
to June 80. 1910, compared with CORE.
spending periods of 1909. and the for
mer high record year. 1907.
Imports of manufacturers ma
terials into the United States I'm the
first eleven months operation of the
Payne tariff law, August l, 1909, TO
June 30, 1910, compared with CORE
spending period of l9OS-09: