Arizona republican., 1910-07-25
GROWTH Of MANUFACTURES
In Many Lines the Exports Are Greater Than In Any Preceding Year-Princi- pal Declines Are In Ger calls and Meats.

Washington. July 24-Details of
 the exports of principal articles dur ing the fiscal year ending June 90, 1910, have just been prepared by the
 bureau of statistics of the depart ment of commerce and labor. They show in nearly all the articles of nat
 ural production marked decline in the exports of 1910 compared with earlier years In certain manufac- lures the figures for 1910 are larger than in any preceding year, and the total for all manufactures will prob ably exceed any earlier year, though the compilation showing the total manufactures exported has not yet been completed.
 The statement as arranged by the bureau states the exports in the order of magnitude, by values. Cotton of course, heads the list of principal articles exported. The total value of the exports of manufactured cot ton during the fiscal year 1910 was 450 million dollars. against 4S1 million in the fiscal year 1907. Copper is second on the list. S3l4 million dol lars. against 100 million in 1908. IT, luminating oil occupies third place on the list. G21A million dollars against T million in the fiscal year 1909. Wheat occupies fourth place in the list, the value being 47 million dol
 lars in round terms against 113 million dollars in 1902. 145h million in 1898, and 1G1 million in 1892, the high record year of exports.
 Flour occupies the next position on
 the list, 4G1s million dollars value against 75 million dollars in 1899.
 Lard ranks sixth in the list of prin- cipal articles exported. 43 million | dollars value against GO million dOl- | lars in 1906. Tobacco. which holds seventh place in the list of articles
 exported, shows a larger total for 1910 than in any earlier year. the value being 3S million dollars against B million in 1903. Lumber, under
 the general title of boards. blanks and deals" amounts to 37 million
 dollars against 40 million in 1907. Up-
 per leather shows larger total than
 in any earlier year. 27 million dollars against 22 million in 1907. Corn shows
 a total of but 251k million dollars | in value against S5 million in 1900. Bituminous coal shows a larger total | than in any earlier year. 26 million
 dollars against 251s million in 1908, and Iubricating oil also shows a larger total for 1910 than ever before, 21
 million dollars against 20 million in
 1908
 Of the fifty principal articles ex- ported. enumerated in the bureau of statistics statement, those which show larger totals than in any earlier year are upper leather. boots and shoes. furs and fur skins, automo- lbiles. electrical instruments, lubricat ling oil, tobacco and coal, both an
 thracite and bituminous The articles in which the falling off is most
 striking are corn, wheat. flour and
 meats; wheat falling from 161 mil llion dollars in 1892 to AZ million ir l191O: corn. from S5 million dollars m
 1900 to 25is million in 1910; flour From 75 million dollars in 1893 to 4S4a
 million in 19Ic, lard, from 60 mi lior dollars in 190j to 43 million in 1910
 bacon, from 46 million in 1898 to 1SK
 million in 1910; hams and shoulders from 26 million dollars in 1903 to 1S million in 1910; pickled pork, iron 15 million dollars in 1907 to AZ mil Ilion in 1910: fresh beef. from 32 mil Ilion dollars in 1901 to "A million in 1910: and cattle, from 43 million dollars in 1904 to 12 million in 1910