White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-12
HOW TRADE RUNS
INTO MILLION Ms
VOLUME OF BUSINESS WITH orE
NOs4OSTIGrOIs TEREITOIEs
DURING THE YEAR 1911 MAS
LARGE.

Trade Of the United States With
fts noDconfigooas territory aggfe-
gated Two hundred million dollars
10 the calendar year 1910. against
one hundred million IN the calendar
year 1903, the FIRST year for which
complete statistics Of this trade are
available. The figures OF the bureau
Of statistics. department Of commerce
and labor. just completed, show the
total value Of this trade In b year
ending December 81. 1910. 70 be
800. 434.342, and II the year end
ing December -, 1903. 31g0,10f,-
z34. an increase OF 100 per cent.
while the trade with other parts Of
the world Vas Increasing about -
per cent. The territories IN question
are Alaska, Hawaii. Porto Rico, the
Philippines, Guam. Tufuila and the
Midway Islands.
The value Of ne merchandise ship
ped from the territories In question
10 the United States IN 1910 was
1111,75I,031, against s~61,s7e.75g
In 1903. The increase IN the period
from 1903 10 1910 was thus 50 per
cent ia the value Of merchandise
shipped from the territories In queg-
ton 10 the United States: and 139,
per cent in the value Of merchandise
shipped from the United States 10
those territories.
The above figures DO not include
movements OF gold and silver. The
value Of domestic gold shipped from
Alaska 10 the United States In 1910
Msag Ia round aarFaQ G9fH2f million
dollars, and Of foreign gold fpre-
sumabIy from British territory ad-
jacent To Alaska approximately
three and ODe-half million dollars:
while the value Of domestic gold
shipped from Hawaii 10 the United
States In 1910 vas about one-half
million dollars.
The principal articles FORMING this
trade Of more than two million dol
lars between the United States and
It's nOn-coDtigdons territories are In
general terms tropical products sent
from those Islands 10 the United
States. and fish. copper, and furs
from Alaska while of shipments from
the United States 10 these territories
manufactures and foodstuns are the
principal 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 10 the United States In
the calendar year 1910 was a little
over one billion pounds. valued at
thirty-nine and oBe-half million dol
lars. from Porto Rico six hundred
and twenty-six million pounds, val
ucd at twenty-six million dollars;
and from the Philippines two hun
dred and eighteen million pounds,
valued at six and one-half million
dollars. Tobacco Is also an article OF
some importance In the shipments of
merchandise from the tropical is-
lands TO the United States. amount
Ing To one and one-half million dol
lars OF manufactured tobacco and
A little lea6 than five million dollors
In value of cigars from Porto Rico;
a little less than five million dollars
worth OF cigars, cigarettes and che
roots from the Philippines. and about
nine thousand dollars worth OF to-
bacco from the Hawaiian Islands.
Manila hemp from the Philippines
In 1910 amounted to about eight and