The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-30
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ness and efficiency of the American
workman and American manufacturer
could be found in a condensed space
than the records of the bureau of sta
tistics, department of Commerce and
labor, which show the expectations of
what may properly be termed high
lgrade" manufactures from the United
IStates. People in all parts of the
world are purchasing every month and
practically every day of the year the
most complex products of the Ameri-
can workshop, such as typewriters
sewing machines, cash registers, scien-
tihe instruments, telegraph and tele-
phone apparatus, musical instruments.
automobiles, and other articles requir-
ing superior skill in their manufacture.
Articles of this class are transported
to the most distant and out-of-the.way
places of the world-the islands of the
ocean and the distant interiors of the
great continent-with the calm con-
fidence that they win not only render
the service for which they were manu-
Ifactured but continue that service for
such length of time as to justify their
transfer from the place of manufacture
to distant communities not provided
with experts and facilities for repairs.
That this confidence in the products
of the American workshop is justified
by experience is indicated by the con-
tinued and, in most cases, growing ex-
port trade in these articles.
Take sewing machines as an ex-
ample. A hundred million dollars
worth of these machines have been ex.
ported from the United States in the
last quarter of century, going to
every part of the world. In the single
year 1909, for example, the countries,
colonies and islands to which sewing
machines were sent included Madagas-
car, Belgian. Kongo. the Canary Is
lands, French 0ceania, Asiatic Russia,
Persia, Alden, Hong Kong, Dutch East
Indies, Paraguay, Peru. Dutch Guiana,
Haiti Santo Domingo, Dutch West In
dies, Egypt, Turkey in Asia and Eu-
rope, Siam. Korea, and Liberia.
Typewriters are another example of
complicated machines exported to dis
tant parts of the world with confidence
that they can there be successfully
operated without return to the manu-
facturer for frequent repair The value
of typewriters exported from the Unit
ed States since the fiscal year 1897.
when they We're first shown in the
statement of exports of the bureau of
statistics of the department of COM
merce and labor, is over so million dol
lars, and in 1909 they went to no less
than 80 different countries. colonies
and islands, including Greenland at
the far north. New Zealand at the far
south. Morocco in North Africa. Siam
IN the extreme Orient. Ecuador and
Bolivia in South America, the Azores
and Madeira Islands in the Atlantic
Dutch East Indies, and French Oceania
in the Pacific; Bulgaria, Servia and
Roumania in Europe; and Persia. the
Straits Settlements. and Korea in
Asia.
Cash registers are a still more re-
Gently developed item in our list of OK.
portations. yet they were sent in 1909
to more than SO different countries. in. |
Guiding nearly score in Europe. prac.
tically all parts of North and South |
America, to China. Japan. Asiatic Rus. |
sia and Straits Settlements in Asia. |
to Australia, New Zealand and Philip |
pine Islands in the Pacific: and to var |
ious sections of Africa.
The automobile. which seems to re-
quire careful and expert attention even
in the country in which manufactured
goes in large numbers to all the grand |
divisions and many of the principal
colonies and islands Of the world. The
1909 figures show exports of automo-
biles TO II different countries of Eu-
rope, to practically all of the countries
and larger islands of North America
to every country of South America. to
China. India, Straits Settlements
Dutch East Indies. Hongkong. japan
Asiatie Russia. and Siam in Asia: and
to Egypt. Portuguese Africa. Canary
Islands, French Africa and British East
and South Africa in that grand divis-
lon; the valuation of this class of ex-
ports having rapidly increased until
The figures of the calendar year 1910
alone show total of II million dol
ars.
Musical instruments of American
manufacture. including organs. pianos
and pianolas, are evidently popular.
he countries to which nianos ara hr |