Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-19
MILLION MISSIVES TO
DEAD LETTER OFFICE
More Than Seven Thousand Contain
ed Money-Enormous Amount of
Business for One Month.


monthly statement of imports and eX-
ports issued by the Bureau of Statis-
tics of the department of the COM
, merce and labor today presents fig
ures for March and the nine months
ending March, 1910, compared with
like periods in 1909. The March i'm
ports were 1852, ,955 ,076, an increase
of $30,0S1. $50 over those of March,
1909; exports S143, ,463 an increase
of $4,409,0 ,096 compared with March,
1909. For the months ending March,
1910, the imports were $11S4,272 166
an increase of $235, ,2S1 over the
corresponding months of last year;
exports $1,352 ,945 ,403, an increase of
$55, ,S51. .526 compared with the same
| months of last year. The excess of
exports over imports in the nine
months ending with March, 1910, is
| $168,673 ,237, a decrease of $279,393,
755 when compared with last year. In
the single month of March 1910, i'm
| ports exceeded exports by $19,254,613
while in March of last year exports
exceeded imports by $6,417,441. Duti-
able imports in the nine months end
! ing with March, 1910. were valued at
$599, 02,641, against 1904, ,453,112 last
year. an increase of $95, ,529; i'm
ports free of duty in the nine months
ending with March, 1910. 1854, 4,769,525
against $444 573,773 last year, an in
crease of $140,195,752. Dutiable i'm
ports during the months of March,
1910, were $S6,151 1882, against ST.
5S7,326 in March last year; free i'm
ports in March, 1910, $76,S03,S44,
against $61,2S6,600 in March of last
year. The imports of the month,
March, are larger than in any earlier
month in the history of our commerce
and exceed $22,446,3O3 the imports
of November, 1909, the former high
record month.
Dead Letters.
One million, ninety-seven thousand
and fifty-two pieces of mail matter
were received by the division of dead
or 72,76S more than for the correspond
| ing month in 1909.
! Among these letters were 1854
which contained money, aggregating
1866, of which $4,193.71 was returned
to the senders.
| The month closed with the work
practically up to date.
HuntIey Irrigation Project.
Eleven new settlers filed on home
steads under the Huntley irrigation
project, Montana, during March, and
many letters of inquiry relating to op-
portunities on the project are being
received not only at the field office
but by the statistician of the reclama-
ton service in Washington, d. G.
The farmers have been plowing and
otherwise preparing their lands for
seeding since March 10. The seed
beds are in excellent shape and many
of the settlers have begun sowing
oats, spring wheat and peas. The
beet sugar factory at Billings has con.
tracted with a number of the settlers
who will plant 1900 acres in sugar
beets this spring.
Reduction in Exports of Foodstuffs.
Exports of foodstuffs from the Unit.
ed States will amount to but about
$50 million dollars in value in the fis.
cal year 1910 against more than 45C
million in 1906, practically 500 mil
lion in 1900, and over $50 million in
1895, the high record year for the ex
lportation of foodstuffs.
In this term foodstuffs" are in
cluded wheat, corn and other bread
stuffs, meat and dairy products, live
cattle, fish, fruits, rice and vegetables
In all these articles while prices are
higher than in earlier years, the quan
tity and in most cases the value of the
exports are less in 1910 than in Ger
tain earlier years, and in many cases
less than half that of a like period il
former years.
] This estimate of the exports of the
fiscal year 1910 is based upon thu
figures of the bureau of statistics O
the department of commerce and la
Tor, for the nine months ending will
| March 1t shows the number OF tn,
! cattle exported in that period a
about $4,000, indicating that the mum
= ber exported in the full fiscal yea
will be about 175,000 against $4,000
in the fiscal year 1904, while the valu
: of the cattle exports in 1910 will b.
! but approximately 16 million dollars
against AZ IL million in 1904. Th
average export value per head OF tn
cattle exported thus far in 1910 i
$50, against an average value of Sc
r per head in 1895, and $74 per head il
D. 1903.
J., The quantity of fresh beef exporte,
4 in 1910 will probably amount to abou
a. rs million pounds, against $50 mi
II lion in 1901, the high record year, an
il the value but about million dollars
k against over 20 million in 1901 Th
er bacon exports of 1910 will, judgin
st from the figures thus far received, as
le gregate less than 1SO million pound:
II valued at approximately 20 mil1io
ic dollars, against $50 million pounds
valued at 46 million dollars in 1S9