The Cairo bulletin., 1911-11-29
SHOE EXPORTS
MANY MILLIONS
Foreign Trade In Foot Wear In
creases Enormously In A
Very Few Years
GREAT BRITAIN OUR RIvAL
TIVE
Jnrle Sam Sends His A ices
Manufactured From Lea.hcr
All Over Wcr!d
GREAT BRITAIN OUR RIvAL

can shoe manufactures IS OK lding
his sales In Gil parts of the world.
n the hstal year 1850 we exported
'ess' than zoe 400 pe..s o; boots
nd shoes; In 1890. 100000 pairs;
in 1900, over 3 million pair;. III
,o5, over 8 million pairs; r. 1910,
yer I million pairs, and in TIE cal
I adar wear Which onds with next
| tI3csth the nlmber Will exceed mil
ion pairs. TO sly nothing OF Tie
| tillion pairs going to Porto. Rico
md, Hawaii, These figures relate
. boots and shoes Of leather; while
7 81 this we add those OF india rub
or, we get an additional 8 million,
| ringing the total plumber Of Aineri-
IN made boots and shoes posing
mt OF continental United States in
| 9ll up to an average Of a million
nairs per month. against abort a
half million per ansum 20 years
| ago.,
This increase. it should be remem-
Dercd, has come In the face of a
large manufacture in foreign coun-
tfies OF boots and shoes called
American" manufactured bby for
cign workmen and CT foreign ma
teriai but upon American patterns
and following American methods of
manufacture. IT. is a well-kuown
fact that large quantities of shoes
old in various parts of the world
under the title Of American are,
in fact, made in European countries
Upon patterns and forms and
methods OF manufacture developed
in the great manufacturing cstab-
lishments of the United States; and
it is thus probable that the number
Of boots and shoes Of Aemrican type
and thus American in the sersc OF
form and method Of manufacture
sold in foreign countries Is very
ouch greater than that ind ated
ny the mere figures of export ion
IN actual exports of boots and hoes
manufactured in the United States |
lro total for the year which ende
With next month Will, as abovo in
heated aggregate more than 2 mil
lon pairs, including in this figure
nose Of india rubber and those sent
10 our own noncontiguous territory. |
Go All Over the World.
Where do they go? Evcrywhere,
p9are" tly, that nan wears boots
ard shoes; japan, Korso. Slam the
Hetch Enet Iud'os. Egybt rartr-
eusse &frica. liberia. the Be ,ian
Konso, Asiatic RUSSIA. Alden, Ger
nan 0cean'ca, rr'tisb Guiana, Ecu
ador, Salvador Costa Rica, Elou-
mania, Turkey in Asia, China, BRIT
ish Sodth Africa, Paraguay, the |
straits Settlements, Spanish Africa,
rtlgaria, Honduras, tho Dutch |
Fest Irdies. Haiti, Santo Domingo,
S3Fvia, and the Azores and Madeira |
Stands, to say nothing of the larger
IMPORTERS OF our boots and shoes
taba, Mexico, England, Canada, |
crmany and Frarce
All these and mary othcr jnter-
ostirs facts about the expectation
~ boots ard shoes and numerous
Ter articles of American manu-
sactdr are 70 he found in that inter-
ling volume Of the Bureau of
"ntistics. tire Department OF Com
nrce ard Labor, untitled, Com
narre and Navigation OF the
nitad Statea," which may be had
u application to that Bureau. 1t
sbows boots and shoes exported
lHom the United States TO no less
tpan'S5 countries md colonies OF
ID world and that the valNc Of
to5ts and Shoes exported. whicA had
never reached as much as a million
dollars per annum, prior to 500.
VOW exceeds u million dollars per
ahnum and will in the curren year
amount to about Is million dollars
in value, including those sent to the
on-coniiguous territory OF the
United States; and II to this we add
the value of india rubber boots and
noes exported, we should have
to'al Of about Z million dollars for
boots and shoes Of all kinds passing
out of continental United States IN
no year which ends with next
month, N ,ts Ayt
Great Britain Our Rival.
The United Kingdom rs the CHIEF
rival % the United States In supply
iny boots, ard siioes TO the world.
Ter exports OF bots and shoes arc
still greater, both in total number
of pairs and total value than those
Of the United States. but the growth
- her ease Is far less rapid thar
that Of this country The number
OF pairs exported from the United
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