Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-19
SHOE HEN DOING
A BIG BUSINESS
OVER EIGHT MILLION PAIRS
VIII HAVE BEEN ENPORl-
Ed WITH YEARS END.
AND They Co EVERYWHERE
In 1880 hes, Than 100. 900 Pairs Went
Out--Grcat Britain Is United
states Chicllc~t Rival,

The American shoe manufacturer
is extending his sales In all parts of
the world I'm the fiscal year 1850 we
exported less than 100000 pairs Of
boots and shoes. i'm 1890, 500 900
pairs, In 1900, over million pairs,
IN 1905, over million pairs In 1910,
over 7 million pairs, and i'm the call
ondcr year which ends with neN'
month the number will exceed mill
lion pairs. TO say nothing of the MIL
lion pairs going 20 Porto Rico ana
Hawaii. These figures relate to bools
and shoes Of leather, while If To TINS
We add those Of india rubber. we get
an additional 3 million, bringing the
total number Of American made
boots and shoes passing out of the
continental United States In 1911 up
to an average Of million pairs per
month. against about half million
per aunum 20 years ago.
This increase, it should Dee remem-
bercd has come IN the face Of large
manufacture in foreign countries of
boots and shoes called American
manufactured by foreign Workmen
and of foreign material but upon
American patterns and following
American methods Of manufacture
1t is a we'll known fact that large
quantities Of shoes sold i'm various
parts of the warId under the title of
"Americau' are, i'm fact made in Eu-
ropean countries upon patterns ana
forms and methods of manufacture.
developed in the great manufacturing
establishments OF the United states,
and II is in the sense Of form ana
method of manufacture sold in for
eign countries is very much greater
than that indicated by the mere fig
ures Of expectation. In actual eN-
ports Of boots and shoes malufac-
tured in the United states the total
for the year which ends with next
month win. as above indicated ag-
grcgate more than - million pairs,
including in this figure these of in
dia rubber and those seat to our own
noncontiguous territory
Where do they go? Everywhere,
apparently, that man wears boots
and shoes Japan Korea, Siam, the
Dutch East Indies Egypt, Portu-
guesr Africa. Liberia, the Belgian
Congo, Asiatic Russia. Alden. German
Oceania, British Guiana. EoE ador, sal
vador. Costa Rica, Roumania, Turkey
i'm Asia, China British South Africa
Paraguay the Straits settlements
Spanish Africa Bulgaria, Honduras,
the Dutch West Indies, Haiti, Santo
Domingo, Seryia, and the Azores ana
MADEIRA Islands. to say nothing of the
larger importers of our boots ana
shoes Cuba, Mexico, England, Can
ada, Germany, and France.
All these and many other interest
ing facts about the expectation Of
boots and shoes and numerous other
articles Of American manufacture are
TO he found in that interesting vol
ume of the Bureau Of stat stiles, De
partmcnt OF Commerce and Labor
entitled Commerce and Navigation
of the United States" which may be
had on application to that Bureau
1t shows boots and shoes exported
from the United States to no less
than So countries and colonies OF the
world and that the value Of boots
and shoes exported, which had never
reached as much as q million dollars
per annum prior to 1895, now exceeds
II million dollars per annum ana WIN
in the current year amount to about
15 million dollars in value, including
those sent to the non-contiguous
territory Of the United States; and II
to this we add the value of india rub
ber boots and shoes exported, we
should have total of about II mil
lion dollars for boots and shoes of
all kinds passing out Of continental
United States in the year which ends
with next month.
The United Kingdom Is the chief ri
val OF the United States i'm supplying
boots and shoes to the world. Her
exports of boots and shoes are still
greater both in total number OF pairs
and total value than those of the Uni
ted states but the growth in her case
is far less rapid than that of this
country. The number OF pairs eX-
ported from the United states in 1888
was 965. 1886. and I'm 1910, 1S1O,9O3;
the number Of pairs exported from
the United Kingdom in 1895 was
S. S.O95.4iO. and iu 1910, 13,O39,656; the
percentage Of gan in the case Of the
United Kingdom being 81 per cent,
and i'm the case Of the United states,
nearly II per cent The value Of
leather boots and shoes exported
from the United states, however is
more nearly identical with that Of
like exports from the United King
dom. having been in the calender
year 1910 S13,21G,237, against $l4,-
744.eG9 for the United Kingdom, the
everage price per pair of those eX-
parted from the United States having
been s169. against $1.1S for those
exported from the United Kingdom