The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-13
WORLD WIDE DISTRIBUTION
OF GOODS MADE IN AMERICA

The contributions which the people
of the United States are making to the
comforts and requirements of the daily
life of those in other parts of the
world are scarcely realized even by
those supplying the articles so con
tributed How little does the girl OF
woman employed in the factory re.
alize that the cotton cloth being manu-
featured with her cooperation is to
become holiday dress for some other
girl or woman in China, or India, or
the Philippines, or South Africa, or
the islands of the East or West Indies.
How little does the boy or man who
engages in the daily round of farm life
realize that the bacon to be made from
the pigs which he feeds is to go into
the homes of Liberia, and Portuguese
Africa, and French Oceania, and
Asiatic Russia, or that the eggs which
he collects may be exported to British
Guiana, or Peru, or Cuba, or Central
America, or the various countries of
Europe Yet these and many other
curious and interesting incidents of
the neighborly interchanges between
our own people and those of other and
distant parts of the world are shown
as part of the every-year, all-the-year-
round routine of trade recorded by the
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor.
It's annual volue, Commerce and
Navigation of the United States" which
is supplied free of charge to those de-
string it for study of our foreign COM
merce, shows many curious things
about our trade with the various parts
of the world. 1t is interesting for ex-
ample, to see that the American mule
goes to Africa, Australia, the islands
of Oceania, Britist, Dutch and French
Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti, Costa
Rica, and British Honduras for service
on the roads and plantations. American
candles, of, which the expectations
amount to from to 8 million pounds
a year are lighting homes in Japan,
Korea, Siberia, Tasmania, Venezula,
the Dutch West Indies, Salvador, the
and French possessions in
Africa. American brooms and brushes
are making clean the floors and busting
the garments of dwellers in Turkey, |
Malta, the Azores Islands, |
Egypt, Spanish possessions in Africa, |
German islands in the Pacific Hong |
kong, and Sonto Domingo. American |
peanuts, of which the expectations |
range from 5 to million pounds a |
year, go to British India, the Guianas
IN South America, the Danish West |
indies, Guatemala, Labrador, the is
and of Bermuda, and the Belgian |
<ongo in Africa. American boots and |
hoes, of which the exports range above
20 million dollars year, go in increas-
ng quantities to every part of the
vorld-Hongkong, Siam, japanese ter
'itory in China, Java and Sumatra, the
Straits Settlements, Australia and New
Zealand, German possessions in Africa,
Iberia, Brazil Paraguay, Mexico, Can
ida, and practically every country in
europe. American windmills, of which
more than a million dollars worth are
every year, are seen in South
africa, the Canary Islands, Turkey in
asia, French China, Haiti, Santo Do
ningo, Turkey in Europe, Switzerland,
toumania, Greece, and Greenland
And so we might go on extending the
ist indefinitely, enumerating products
f the American farm and factory
Which are being sent to other parts of (
he world, and these articles would in i
lude sewing machines, typewriters,
lotor boats, organs, pianos, pianolas, II
oap, perfumery, organges, raisins, (
runes, chewing gum, toys, and many Il
ther equally curious and interesting Il
rticles, to say nothing of the great l.
lasses making up the grand total of
lore than 767 million dollars worth S
manufactures, 565 million dollars If
1orth of raw materials, and $40 mil
on dollars worth of foodstuffs. Of Il
aw cotton alone the years exports If
mounted to 450 million dollars; of II
leat and dairy products and meal, II
early 125 million; of iron and steel
manufactures, 1S0 million; of petrol i
lm and other mineral oils, 100 mil
on; and of copper manufactures, near s
: 80 million dollars, and so on down
lie list. The countries, colonies and Ic
ther territorial divisions to which lp
lese articles go, as shown in the
Olume, Commerce and Navigation of lh
lie United States" above alluded to-
re over 100 in number, and it would
e difficult to find in any part of the
orld country in which some article