Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-22
NATION PRODUCING
MORE; EXPORTING
LESS THAN EVER
Cotton Heads Outgoing List at
$3.50, 00O,0 900, Copper Next
and Illuminating Oil Third.

WASHINGTON. July 22.-Details of
the exports by principal articles during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910,
have just been prepared by the bureau
of statistics of the department of COM
merce and labor. They show in nearly
all of the articles of natural production
a marked decline in the exports of 1910
compared with earlier years. In GER
tain manufactures the figures for 1910
are larger 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 have 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 arti-
Giles exported. The total value of the
exports of manufactured cotton dur
ing the fiscal year 1910 was $3.50, 900, 600,
against $4S1, 000, 900 in the fiscal year
1907. Copper is second on the list, $780,
500. 900. against 500. 600, 900 In 1908. Tlu-
minating oil occupies third place on
the list. $62, 800, 900, against 81, 00o, 900 In
the fiscal year 1909. Wheat occupies
fourth place in the list, the value being
s4f. 200, 900, in round terms, against
$113. 000. 900 In 1902, sl45, 500, 1000 in 1898
and s161, 000. 900 In 1892, the high-record
year of exports. Flour occupies the
next position ON the list, SAG, 500, 900
value, against $75, DOC. 900 in 1893. Lard
ranks sixth in the list of principal arti-
Giles exported, $4S.0 900, 900 value, against
$50, 200, 600 in 1906. Tobacco, which holds
seventh place in the list Of articles ex-
ported, shows a larger total for 1910
than in any earlier year, the value be-
ing sSS, 900, 900, against s35. DOC, 900 In 1903
Lumber, under the general title of
boards, planks and deals" amounts to
S37 ZOO. 900, against $40. 900. 900 in 1907.
Upper leather shows a larger total than
in any earlier year, $27 .000.0 600. against
So. OOO,00 in 1907. Corn shows a total
of but s25, SOC, 900 in value. against $685.
000, 900 in 1900. Bituminous coal shows
a larger total than in any earlier year,
SIG. 000, 900, against s25, SOC. 900 in 1908. and
lubricating oil also shows a larger total
for 1910 than ever before, 81, 900, 900,
against $40. 600, 900 In 1908.
OF the fifty principal articles export
ed, enumerated In the bureau Of statis-
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. iubricating oil, tobacco
and coal, both anthracite and butumi-
nous. The articles in which the falling
off is most striking are corn, wheat,
flour and meats. wheat falling from
s161. 600. 900 in 1892 to s47,0 O0, 900 In 1910,
corn from sS5, 900, 600 in 1900 to s25, SOC, 900
in 1910, -four from s75.0 00. 700 in 1893 to
SAG, 500 1000 in 1910. lard from $780, 900. 900
IN 1906 to s43. 000. 900 in 1910. bacon from
sac. 900 900 in 1898 to SIS. 500. 900 In 1910.
hams and shoulders from s26, 900, 900 in
1903 to SIS, 00O, 900 in 1910, picked pork
from SIS. 000. 900 in 1907 to "a. 100000 in
1910. fresh beef from $50. 0o0. 600 in 1901
to 81, 900 in 1910. and cattle from
s42. o0O. 900 in 1904 to s12. 900, 900 in 1910.