The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-03-17
Trade Of the United States With Its
Noncontiguous Territories, 1919.


Trade of the United States with its
noncontiguous territories aggregated
two hundred million dollars in the cal
@endar year 1910, against one hundred
million i'm the calendar year 1903
the first year for which complete sta
tistics OF this trade are available. The
figures of the Bureauof Statistics, De-
partment of Commerce and Labor,
Just completed, show the total value or
this trade I'm the year ending Decem-
Der 81, 1910, to be 1902, 494, 343, and in
the year ending December 81, 1903,
800, LOT ,234, an increase of 100 per
cent, while the trade with other parts
or the world was increasing about 40
per cent. The territories In question
are Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the
Philippines, Guam, Tutuila and the
Midway Islands.
The value OF the merchandise ship
ped from the territories in question to
the United States in 1910 was SILL
731, O31, against SGT, 876,756 I'm 1903
The value or the merchandise shipped
from the United States to the noncon-
tiguous territories was $50, 1853, 312,
against $38,230,478 in 1903. The in
crease i'm the period from 1903 to 1910
was thus 50 per cent in the value OF
merchandise shipped from the terri
tories in question to the United States;
and I39 per cent I'm the value OF mer-
chandise shipped from the United
States to those territories
The above figures do not include
movements of gold and silver. The
value of domestic gold shipped from
Alaska to the United States in 1910
was in round terms Is million dollars,
and of foreign gold presumably from
British territory adjacent to Alaska)
approximately 314 million dollars:
while the value OF domestic gold ship
ped from Hawaii to the United States
in 1910 was about one-half million dol
lars
The principal articles forming this
trade OF more than 200 million dollars
between the United States and its non
contiguous territories are in general
terms tropical products sent from
those islands to the United States, and
fish, copper, and furs from Alaska,
while of shipments from the United
States to these territories manufac-
lures and foOdstuffs are the princi-
pal articles. Sugar and hemp are the
principal articles coming from the
Philippines, and as already indicated,
fish, copper, and furs are the principal
articles coming from Alaska The
quantity OF sugar sent from Hawaii to
the United States in the calendar year
1910 was little over l billion pounds,
valued at 1914 million dollars; from
Porto Rico 626 million pounds, valued
at 26 million dollars; and from the
Philippines 21S million pounds, valued
at 6k million dollars Tobacco is
n1cn nrff ~ -,
the shipments OF merchandise from
the tropical islands to the United
States, amounting to IL million dol
lars of manufactured tobacco and
little less than 8 million dollars i'm
value OF cigars from Porto Rico; a lit
tie less than million dollars worth Of
cigars, cigarettes and cheroots from
the Philippines, and about 8 thousand
dollars worth of tobacco from the
Hawaiian Islands. Manila hemp from
the Philippines in 1910 amounted to
about s 2-3 million dollars in value.
Fruit and nuts Chiefly fruits from
Hawaii amounted to ~ million dol
lars in value; from Porto Rico little
less than million; and from the Phil
ippines the shipments under this gen.
eral head Chiefly cocoanut meat, brok-
en- or "copra"D amounted to a little
over one-half million dollars.
From Alaska the principal articles
shipped to the United States were fish,
chiefly salmon to the value OF I'LL Is
million dollars; furs, about one-half
million; copper ore about one-fourth
million
The principal articles shipped to the
territories i'm question, are, as already
indicated, manufactures and foodstuffs
To Hawaii the group, Cars, carriages,
ETC., amounts to about l million dol
lars, of which about three-fourths il
automobiles; cotton manufactures.
nearly 2 million dollars; iron and
steel manufactures, ga million:
leather and manufactures thereof,
more than One-half million; mineral
OILS IL million; paper, and manufac-
lures thereof one-half million tobacco
manufactures, one-half million; man
ufactures Of wood (chiefy lumber)
- million; breadstuffs, "a million,
and meats three-fourths OF a million.
To Porto Rico the principal articles
were cars and carriages, one million
dollars in value, of which automobiles
formed little more than one-third;
cotton manufactures, 1-3 million;
IRON and steel manufactures, Az mil
AAOA, IcdluST anu manufactures, there
of, over 4 million; mineral oils, one
half million; paper and manufactures
thereof, over one-half million: soaps.
nearly one-half million; manufactures
OF silk, one-third of a million: manu-
features OF wood, ~ million; bread
stuffs, practically million dollars.
and meats, 81 million.
To the Philippines the principal ar
ucles shipped were cars and carriages
over one-half million dollars iii value.
OF which more than two-thirds was au-
tomobiles; cotton manufactures. 4 l-3
million; against 2-3 million in 1909:
manufactures OF iron ana steel. a mil
lion; leather and manufactures there
or, nearly 1 million; paper and manu-
lectures thereof, more than one-half
million; manufactures Of wood (chief-
ly lumber) over one-half million min
eral oils over a million; breadstuffs.
TX million, and meats one-half mil
lion.
TO Alaska the principal articles
shipped were iron and steel manu-
features, Az million dollars in value:
wood and manufactures thereof.
three-fourths of million; mineral
oils three-fourths of million tobacco,
one-half million vegetables ~ million.
wooden manufactures over Y million;