The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-10
IMPORTS INCREASE MUCH
FASTER THAN POPULATION
Interesting Figures Presented
in Bulletin Prepared By
U. 5. Department

Washington, D. Ca Feb. lQ--The
iarnl products imported into The Unit
"a states during the fiscal year 1901
the year Of highest record amount-
"a Ill yalnc ID nearly SG27,a0a00o Tho
Imports for 1908 We're valued al Saal
UeN,oo0 hi round numbers and the
average for the five wears l90l-i9oo
was trifle over Sf55.0oG00o These
ana other Interesting figpres appear
IN bulletin recently issued by risS
U s. department. of Agriculture
which reviews our imports of fallA
products during period reachlns
hsck to the middle o. the last cen
tvry
The farm products imported may
lie divided into two general classes,
ltlJ those which compete with pro
ducts OF farms in this country and
it2l those which do NOT SO compete
Is any considerable extAt. The first
class. embracing such irems as sugar
! tohacco, hay and hides and skins
makes up little less than hair 81
1.-THE total The principal items Of tne
second class are silk. coffee tea, sisal
grass. manila fiber, iute, bananas,
eoeoanuts and Peruvian and Egyptian
cotton.
4 Farm products have always consti-
tNted q large part OF our imports. hul
E rot the preponderent share that suenf
PRODUCTS hold in our export ira Q. III
the fiflies only about one-third Of
our imports were farm products But
their Importance gradually increased
and I'm 1875 to the end OF he century
agricultural products made up JUS
about Gne.half OF the total, in ssome
years rising above and in some years
( falling below the 80 Oer cent line.
Since 1900. however, while farm pro
+ duyts have continued to nc'ease. the
gain ia imports Of manufactures ami
other nonagricultural articles has
{ heen even greater. so that only about
] i6 per cent Of the total imports since
1909 are TO be classed as agricultural.
BY comparing imports with exports
it is found that for the five years
! lg0l-i905 our average exports OF co,
ton, grain and grain products exceed
e c6 by $74000,000 our total imports or
2 products OF ihe farm
4 Imports Of agricultural products
I have increased much faster than pop
{ ulation during the period covered by
this review In the period lS5l.lSo9
+ these imports averaged in value S2.Il
per capita during the five years 1891
1905 tine average was $a.G1 OF this
Increase of S296 per capita. - cents
Asas due 10 increased imports of SILK
IS cents TO packing house products.
T. Il cents 10 vegetable fibers Is cents
9 to coffee 20 cents to wool rs cents
T. "a tobacco, II cents % an fruits ~
u cents 10 cocoa and chocolate. and +
$ cents 20 vegetable oils.
G Comparing The Two periods 1851
10 1885 and igel-lgG5, II is found that IN
h nfty years imports of coffee ncreaseo
d from to ~ pounds per capita. i'm
ports OF tea from "a 10 l.e POM s.
Is and impoi OF sugar from IL 20 %
= Pounds Der capita, white during iAe
le hail cennry imports Of manuiacufr0
" tobacco doubled and imports of wool
- trehled
lmpom prices show some mafkcd
changes Cheese rose from . cents
i pound in 1891 80 la cents a pound
in 1905, ami potatoes from % to 10
cents a hushel during ,he saWe
ptrot Manis hemp, imported di
rect from the Philippines, was valued
al S-6 a ton in 1862. when first g
= corded separately among the Imports,
has suhsepuently more har
doubled in price being rated at Siil
. per ton IN 1905 Philippine sugar or
;he other nand, despite improvement
"a "a fs u
pound during The fifiy-eighi years un
y, der review while Cuhan sugar decln
"a from St TO 25 cents q pound
Among the spices, pepper advanced
from Sa 10 rs cents j pound. while
nutmegs fell 20 10 cents pound. less
la inan a fifth of the 81 cents recerde,
s. in 1851.
~ Raw silk imported from Italy &
~ valued higher than that from the Fai
Fast ana of the latter the silk from
lapan is higher ihau that from China
Brazilian coffee shows sn imp0r
price lltle more than half that o
coffee ffbiii the DWch East Indies
y ,Jaya and SainarIl hit Guaiemalal
IN coffee cnjHeS almost as Rieh rs III,
y lstfcr Before 1861. however, ther,
81 Aras little tl'FfelVnce II price hetwesI
coffee ipmi Rlgs,H and Nom N,
Dutch fts mde r. 1850 Tor iou
. oui Of ten wears The price of sraziia'
~ ccffee wss the higher IN The earll
nineties Eehaa w.agNer tobacco wa.
4. treQucntle valNed below Sumair.
y wrapper. in the five yeats eudln.
= lguS The import price Of Cuban wal
= per cen; higher TIE relative M
F0ri prices oI tuhan anu TURK sh 81
- Ter tobacco vary consider bly ia9n
,eer Ia wear Thus in istS and lao
! fufRieh wse fS5 ne cent higher
|. eat IN The nexi four years Cuban va
! invoiced at rate So ner cent higae