The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-02
EXPORTS
IN THE YEAR 1910

Details of the exports by principal
articles during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910 have just been prepared
by the Bureau of Statistics of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor.
They show nearly all of the articles
OF natural production a marked de-
cline in the exports of 1910 compared
with earlier years. In certain manu-
features the figures for 1910 are larg-
er than in any preceding year, and
the total for all manufactures will
probably 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. Cot
ton, Of course. heads the list of prin-
cipal articles exported. The total
value of the exports of unmanufac-
tured cotton during the fiscal year
1910 was 450 million dollars, against
4S1 million in the fiscal year 1907.
Copper is second on the list, SO IL
million dollars, against 100 million in
1908. Illuminating oil occupies third
place on the list, 62 IL million dollars
against II million in the fiscal year
1909. Wheat occupies fourth place
in the list, the value being Al million
dollars, in round terms, against 113
million dollars in 1902, 145 IL million
in 1898, and 161 million in 1892, the
high record year of exports. Flour
occupies the next position on the list,
46 IL million dollars value against IS
million dollars in 1908. Lard ranks
sixth in the list of principal articles
exported AZ million dollars value
against so million dollars in 1906.
Tobacco, which holds seventh place in
the list of articles exported, shows a
larger total for 1910 than in any earl
Ter year the value being SO million
dollars against million in 1908.
Lumber, under the general title of
Boards, planks and deals" amounts
to 81 million dollars against 40 mil
lion in 1907. Upper leather shows a
larger total than in any earlier year
| q million dollars against % million
! in 1907. Corn shows a total of but
25 10 million dollars in value against
S5 million in 1900. Bituminous Goa
shows a larger total than in any earl
Ter year, 26 million dollars against %
I1-2 million in 1908, and lubricating oil
also shows a larger total for 1910 than
ever before, 81 million dollars against
20 million in 1908.
OF the SO principal articles exported
enumerated in the Bureau of Static
tics statement, those which show
larger totals than in any earlier year
are upper leather, boots and shoes
furs and fur skins, automobiles
electrical instruments, lubricating oil
tobacco, and coal, both anthracite and
bituminous. The articles in which the
falling off ii most striking are corn
wheat, flour and meats; wheat falling
from 161 million dollars in 1892 to Al
million in 1910; corn, from SIS millior
dollars in 1900 to % 10 million il
1910; -four, from IS million dollars il
1898 to as IL million in 1910; lart
from 60 million dollars in 1906 to A;
million in 1910; bacon, from 46 million
in 1898 to Is IL million in 1910; hams
and shoulders, from 26 million dollars
in 1903 to IS million in 1910; picked
pork, from Is million dollars in 1870
to A. IL million in 1910; fresh beef
from S2 million dollars in 1901 to Z g.
million in 1910; and cattle, from A.
million dollars in 1904 to ~ million il
1910.