Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-09-27
OUR NoNcoNmGUoUs TRADE.
A Review OF the Trade OF the United
States With Her Children
of the Seas.

Sdl6u TWO uUUuItu InllllOu dollars
in 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 Com
merce and Labor, just completed,
/ show the total value of this trade in
the year ending December 81, 1910,
to be $202, 494,343, and in the year
ending December 81, 1903, $780,
107,234, an increase of 100 per cent,
while the trade with other parts of
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
I$111,731,031, against $61,876,756
in 1903. The value of the merchan-
disc shipped from the United States
! to the noncontiguous territories was
$90,763,312, against $3S,230,47S in
1903. The increase in the period
| from 1903 to 1910 was thus 50 per
cent in the value of merchandise
shipped from the territories in ques-
ton to the United States; and 139
per cent in the value of merchandise
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 ID million dol
lars, and of foreign gold (presum-
ably from British territory adjacent
to Alaska) approximately 3 1-2 mil
lion dollars; while the value of do
nestle gold shipped from Hawaii to
the United States in 1910 was about
one-half million dollars.
The principal articles forming this
trade of more than 200 million dol
lars between the United States and
its noncontiguous 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 ter
ritories manufactures and foodstuffs
are the principal articles. Sugar and
hemp are the principal articles COM
ing from ,Ae Philippines, and as al
ready 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
a little over 1 billion pounds, valued
at 80 1-2 million dollars; from Porto
Rico 626 million pounds, valued at
&c million dollars; and from the
Philippines 21S million pounds, valu-
ed at 1-2 million dollars. Tobacco
is also an article of some Importance
in the shipment of merchandise from
the tropical islands to the United
States, amounting to l 1-2 million
dollars of manufactured tobacco
and q little less than 5 million dol
lars in value of cigars from Porto
Rico; little less than million dol
lars No. 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 2-3 mil
lion dollars in value. Fruits and
nuts (chiefly fruits from Hawaii
in value; from Porto Rico a little
less than 2 million; and from the
Philippines the shipments under this
general head Chiefly cocoanut,
meat, broken or "copra") amounted
10 little over one-half million dol
lars.
From Alaska the principal articles
10 the United States were fish, chiefly
salmon to the value Of II 1-3 million
dollars; furs, about one-half million;
copper ore about one-fourth million.
The principal articles shipped to
the territories in question, are, as al
ready indicated, manufactures and
foodstuffs. To Hawaii the group
cars, carriages, etc." amounts to
about | million dollars, of which
about three-fourths is automobiles;
cotton manufactures, nearly mil
lion dollars; iron and steel manu-
features, ga million; leather and
manufactures thereof, more than
one-half million; mineral oils, 1-2
million; paper and manufactures
thereof one-half million tobacco
manufactures, one-half Million; man
ufactures Of wood CHIEFLY lumber)
| 1-2 million; breadstuffs, / "a mil
lien, and meats three fourths OF a
million.
To Porto Rico the principal arti-
cles We're cars and carriages, one
million dollars in value, of which
automobiles formed a little more
than one-third; cotton manufactures
4 1-3 million; iron and steel manu-
| features, l-2 million; leather and
manufactures thereof, over mil
lion; mineral oils, one-half million;
paper and manufactures Thereof, over
one-half million; soaps, nearly one
half million; manufactures of silk,
one-third of million; manufactures
of wood, l ga million; breadstuffs,
practically 6 million dollars, and
meats, 3 IA million.
To the Philippines the principal
articles shipped were cars and car
riages over one-half million dollars
in value, Of which more than two
thirds was automobiles; cotton man
ufactures, 4 1-3 Million against ]
2-3 million in 1909; manufactures of
iron and steel, million; leather and
manufactures thereon, nearly l mil
lion; paper and manufactures thereof,
more than one-half million; manu-