The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-24
KING COTTON"
LEADS IN EXPORTS
Total Increase Is S3o4, 900
When Compared With
Preceding Year.
[special 10 The Times-Dispatch. ]

Especial TO The Times Dispatch.
Washington. d. c., July 23.-The
farmer and the manufacturer run neck
and neck in the remarkable growth in
exports which characterized the year
just ended, with King Cotton" in the
lead The total increase in exports
was 1904. 900, when compared with
the Immediately preceding year. being
larger gain than ever before shown
in a. single year of export trade. or
this gain of 1904. 100000. manufactu-
rers as a whole supplied S1+0.o00.oo0:
cotton. about s130ooo.oOo; meat and
dairy products. about $4,000 900; corn,
approximately. s1o,o0o,o0o; food AMI
mails, si,500,0o0; -four, about S2,50o.00o.
while wheat shows a marked decline.
Cotton is king in the exports Of pro-
ducts of agriculture, the value exported
during the year being 1855, 100000, by
far the largest total ever shown in the
cotton export trade, against s450,000.-
900 in 1910 and s4s1.00o.0o0 in 1907, the
former high record year. Meat and
dairy products show a total of approx
imately S150,oO0.600. against s131,000,-
900 last year, but materially less than
in certain earlier years, in which the
total ranged as high as S202. 600, 900 in
1907 and 1921 100000 in 1906. Food
animals show a total of $4,000, 900,
against a little less than $4,000 900
last year. but much below the figures
OF earlier years. when the total figures
of food animals exceeded s43.o00.000 in
the high record year 1906. Flour
amounted TO approximately S5o.00o.o0o
in value. against s47,5o0.000 last year
but much less than in certain other
earlier years. the high record In flour
exports in 1893 showing total of APP
proximately s75.OO0.0oO.
Quantity Is Less.
One peculiar feature of the cotton
export trade is found in the fact that
although the value exceeded by more
than S100.000,000 that of other earlier
years. the quantity exported was less
than in several years. The quantity of
cotton exported in the fiscal year 1911
was about 4O2s.o0000O pounds. against
4,iis.c0o00O pounds in 1909 and ASS.
coo, 900 pounds in 1907, yet the value in
1911 was s5s5.00o.000. against si1750O.-
600 in 1909 and s4sl. 100000 in 1907
In manufactures the increase in the
group manufactures ready for con-
sumption is about s1oo.OoO.oO0. and in
the group manufactures for further
use in manufacturing" the increase is
approximately $4,000. 900, these figures
being subject to slight revision. since
the full returns for the closing month
of the year have not yet reached the
Bureau of Statistics of the Department
OF Commerce and Labor, from whose
returns the accompanying statements
are compiled
The increase in manufactures is ap-
parent in a large number of articles.
Agricultural implements as a whole
show an increase OF about $4,000, 900
mowers and reapers alone, about s5,-
100000: plows and cultivators about
$4,000, 900: pig copper. about $4,000
o00 lumber. about 100000; iron and
steel manufactures as whole an in
crease OF about $4,000. 600 while the
details of iron and steel show for sheets
and plates, about S4.000.000 increase:
structural iron and steel, about $1,000
900: metal working machinery about
100000: wire. about $4,000, 900; cleo
trical machinery, about $4,000 min
ing machinery, nearly s2.000000: loco
motives. over $1,000, 900; traction en-
gines. more than 100000 while in
other articles not classed under the
general title of iron and steel manu-
features, automobiles show gain OF
about s3.000.000; railway cars about
$4,000 600; electrical appliances. about
S2,o00.o0o, and naphthas about $780,
900 p. II. MEG.