The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-18

and q forelGn IilateFial 1us upo
American patterns and follow M
American methods Of manufactuTs
II iga well known fact that ldEB :
Quantities OF shoes cold IN variou
parts OF the world under the title
American are, In fact. made in Er
rop I'm countries upon patterns AM
forms and methods CT manufacture
developed in the great manufacturing
Establishments Of the United States
and it IS thus probable tina
the number OF boots and shoes
American type and thus American !;
the sense of form and method o
manufacture sold In foreign countrie
! is very much greater than that in
dlcated by the mere figures Of expol
talon. In actual exports Of boot
and shoes manufactured in the Unite
states. the total for the. year whic
ends with next month will, as abov
Indicated, aggregate more than tweiv
million pairs. including in this figur
those of India rubber and those sen
to our own noncontIgous territory
where do they go? Everywher'
apparently, that man wears boots an
shoes: Japan. Korea, Siam, tn
Dutch East Indies, Egypt. Portuguese
Africa, Liberia, the Belgian Kong
| As'atic Russia. Alden. German oc'
ana, British, Guina, ECUADOR Salv;
dor, Costa RIGA, Roumanta, Turke
In Asia, China, British South Afric'
Paraguay, the Straits Settlement
Spanish Africa. Bulgaria, Hondura
the Dutch West indies, Haiti, SAINT
Domingo, servia, and the Azores an
Madeira Islands, to say nothing OF tn
larger importers of our boots an
shoes-Cuba, Mexico, England, Car
ada Germany and France.
All these and many other inter
! esting facts about the expectation
boots and shoes and numerous othe
4 articles of American manufartur
are to be found in that interesttn
i volume of the Bureau OF Statistic
Department of Commerce and Labe
entitled Commerce and Navigate
of the United States which may
had on application to that Burea
It shows boots and shoes exporte
/ from the United States to no less tina
! IS countries and colonies OF the worl
and that of boots and shoes exporter
which had never reached as much a
a million dollars per annum prior
, 1886, now exceeds twelve million dol
lars per annum and will in the cor
rent year amount to about ffteel
/ million dollars in value, includin
!, those sent to the noncontiguous terri
Z tory of the United States; and IL
i this we add the value OF India rubbc
boots and shoes exported, we shout
! have a total of about seventeen mi
: lion dollars for boots and shoes OF a
: kinds passing out OF continents
Z United States IN the year which end
: with next month.
: The United Kingdom is the chic
3 rival of the United States in supply
E ing boots and shoes to the world
l Her exports CT boots and shoes ar
!, still greater beth in total number c
t pairs and total value than those c
2 the United States, but the growth {
her case is far less rapid than that {
: this country. The number Of pair
8 exported from the United States i
1896 was 965,196, and in 1910, $50
$685. the number of pairs exporte
from the United Kingdom in 1886 wa
s,O95,44o; and in 1910, 1909, $50; tn
percentage of gain in the case of tn
United Kingdom being sixty-one pc
cent, and IN the case Of the Unite
States, nearly 71O per cent. Th
value of leather boots and shoes eN
ported from the United States, how
ever, is more nearly Identical wit
that of like exports from the Unite
Kingdom, having been In the calenda
year 1910 $13,216,2S7, against $14,744,
900 for the United Kingdom, the aver
age price per pair of those exported
from the United States having beer
$3.50, against $1.13 for those exported
from the United Kingdom.